Congratulations to all of this year’s School Ambassadors. It was such a difficult choice, but after looking at all the wonderful applications and interviewing all of the candidates Mrs Matthews and Mrs MacFarlane selected these children to be our School Ambassadors for 2022-2023.
In science, the children have been learning about forces. They explored how running on the playground was affected by holding a sheet of card in front of them, creating a 'push' as they run, thus slowing them down. The children used the adventurous gem today.
In R.E. the children were learning about Shabbat, which begins on the evening when three stars are lit. This is celebrated each Friday evening and lasts for 25 hours. A time for a family to get together and no technology is used, lights or cooking is allowed and ends with a Havdalah ceremony.
![]() The children finished their unit on Judaism and have written a piece which reflects on the last five lessons where we have learnt about different aspects of the Jewish religion. The children had to consider what they had learnt about Judaism and create a piece of work of their choice. Every child worked completely independently, expressing their own thoughts and ideas. We have used our reflective gem for this. In maths, we have finished our unit of work on Multiplication and Division. We have looked at multiples, factors, common multiples, lowest and highest common multiples, prime, square and cubed numbers and multiplying and dividing by 10, 100 and 1,000. It has been such a lovely unit of maths for the children to learn about and I have certainly enjoyed teaching it too! This photo is of the children exploring cube numbers.
The children have used the adventurous, perseverance and cooperation gems. In science today the children have begun to learn about forces.
Force is the push and pull on an object. They began with discussions about gravity and what this means. They learnt that the gravitational pull of a greater celestial body keeps smaller planets trapped in the 'pull'. The Moon, being a smaller celestial body is kept within the Earth's gravitational pull and that everything stays on the Earth due to gravity as well. The children explored weights of objects in Newtons, using force meters and discovered that rain doesn't always fall straight down - as you might think it does - but instead is pulled to the Earth by its gravitational pull. The children used the cooperation and adventurous gems today. We have had such a lovely maths lesson today learning about square numbers. The children enjoyed exploring that they could use arrays of counters to create square numbers and that if they could not have an equal number of rows and columns on their arrays, then the number was not a square number. We then looked at how this is a number multiplied by itself and is denoted with the little 'floaty' 2. We explored how this is called a square number and also called to 'the power of'.
A lovely discussion then happened, where someone asked can the little 2 be a different number. The children were amazed to learn about how the 'little' number could be a 3, 4, 5, 6, etc. and how the number would keep multiplying by itself. Of course, these are then not square numbers. The children used the concentration and adventurous gems today |
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