Squirrels Heath Junior School

 This week, as part of our Junior Citizenship Training, Year 6 visited the Territorial Army Centre to take part in some exciting and informative demonstrations and presentations by the Havering Community Safety Team, the Metropolitan Police, London Fire Brigade and TFL.  Thank you to all the children who represented our school so well and thank you to the professionals who took time out of their day to help us understand how to keep ourselves safe. 

This week Year 5 investigated electrical conductors and insulators. We discussed what these terms mean and why certain objects need to be made of electrical conductors or insulators. Don't forget to ask us about it! First we went to the quad and looked at the conductors and isolators that we have in the  school and we then carried out our own investigation. Our task was to find the best conductor to help a football stadium to have the brightest possible floodlights. Take a look at our experiment below!

 Year 3 had a fantastic day on Monday with a theatre workshop. They all thoroughly enjoyed becoming trainee time travellers and helping the time traveller to pass her final attempt at graduating. They had to journey to Ancient Greece and help the time traveller to answer seven difficult questions using the information they gained from the various Ancient Greek visitors who appeared throughout the workshop.  After they spent the rest of the day on various Ancient Greek crafts, firstly becoming cobblers, making Greek sandals. Secondly, they became potters creating some beautifully decorated terracotta clay oil lamps. Finally, they had a go at being architects, constructing Greek temples on a watercolour sunset that they painted earlier.                                            .