Mysterious Me

Our new topic this half term is called Mysterious Me and we shall be learning about other peoples lives and thing that make us all special. 

At the start of our topic we made shields. On these shields we had to draw and write about our family and friends. We also had to talk about some of our favourite things and things we are good at.  We made these shields to put on our topic display so we can learn lots about everyone in class 8. On this display we have put up pictures of us with our families, us in our favourite places and pictures of us with our favourite things. 

Next week as part of our topic we are going on an exciting school trip. Our trip is to lots of special religous places. We shall visit a Church, a Temple, a Mosque and a Gurdwara. On this trip we hope to learn lot of new things about the places we are visiting, maybe even about the food they eat and what clothes they wear!

Written by Lewis, Tanvir and Kaynan

Fabulous Farm to Fork week in Class 8

In October we had a special week called Farm to Fork week. We learnt in this week about lot of types of food and how far they have to travel to get to our plates and local shops.

We had a visit from the ladies at Tesco and they brought different types of cheeses to try. Our favourite was the spicy cheese because it made our tongue tingle! Tesco also brought fish in to school and we learnt how to hold them and how to take the head off and how to gut a fish - it smelt disgusting! Finally Tesco brought in fresh fruit and vegetables to learn how much we need to eat for a portion (as big as your palm is only one portion).

We had a visit from Betty's farm who brought in a chicken to show us. The chicken was called Betty and we all got to stroke her. We learnt about how chickens lay healthy eggs and that lots of things in our homes have egg in them like make up and cake!

A lady came in to teach us how to milk a cow called Jenny and we had to pull the pretend cows udders to make the milk come out. We learnt how to turn the milk into butter. We then ate our butter on yummy soft  bread.

Written by Jared, Aditya and Connie

Super STEM day!

In September we had a super STEM day. STEM means we learn about Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. We had a STEM day as part of our work towards the Rolls-Royce Science prize in which we are finalists. 

In our STEM day we had to test lots of materials so we could change the sensory square because it had lots of small stones in it that we couldn't sweep up! First we had to walk along fake grass and it felt nice and soft on our toes, then we walked through the sand and that felt smooth but it also tickled our feet. Next we tried to walk on rope circles and they felt rough and hard. The big stones and the logs we walked on also felt hard on our feet. We enjoyed walking through the paper because it felt like real snow!

In year 2 we had to measure the sensory square to know where we could put sections of the new materials. After we measured we had to design our plan for the sensory square with the new materials that we tested. The materials we chose as the best for our project were the fake grass, rope circles, the tiles, the big stones and the logs. 

Written by Oliver, Aimen and Ebaney