Bikeability

What a busy start to a busy term!

We loved our Bikeability sessions with Alex and Fiona, our confidence and skills have really improved!

Experience Easter

Thank you to Reverend Ford and his team for our wonderful 'Experience Easter' workshops in our beautiful church.

Future 'Bake Off' contestants?

Year 5 have been enjoying themselves learning about Fairtrade.

Having discovered the value of buying Fairtrade products and that chocolate can form part of a healthy diet, we researched chilled chocolate desserts. We then designed our own desserts, taking into account taste, texture, colour and visual impact. We made our chocolate desserts very professionally. We were involved in sharing out the ingredients, including chocolate, strawberries, popping candy and squirty cream, as well as using sharp knives and graters. Well, you can imagine, the smell in the classroom! Once we had all evaluated our desserts, we really enjoyed eating them!

We also used the work we have been doing in English to design a persuasive poster to encourage other people to buy our product. What a week!

British Science Week 2017!

We really enjoyed our Science Day based on the topic 'Change'.

We made bread rolls, with different groups altering the recipe so we could investigate why we need each of the ingredients. We enjoyed tasting the different rolls and could really tell the importance of each ingredient!

We explored changing colours, using paper towels and water coloured with food dye.

After playing 'Worm Hunt' on the field (trying to find different coloured pieces of wool, not real worms) we talked about the importance of camouflage and have created our own butterflies to camouflage into out classroom habitat!

Trinity Sculptures

We have been learning about the Trinity and have expressed our understanding of the Trinity through sculpture.

World Book Day!

Look at these beautiful collaborative art pieces we have produced based on the book 'Journey to the River Sea'.

Terrific Scientific - Experiment 2 - Water

We have been investigating if the water that comes out of our taps in Northleach is hard or soft water, using a water hardness testing kit.

We also carried out an investigation to find out if warm water sometimes can freeze faster than cool water. We will send our findings to The University of Southampton so they can use them in their scientific study. We are looking forward to seeing how our results compare to results from around the country.

Terrific Scientific - Experiment 1 - Taste!

We are taking part in the BBC's Terrific Scientific campaign.

Our first investigation was based on 'Taste'. Did you know that not everyone's sense of taste is the same? Some people are supertasters, which means that they find bitter tastes more unbearable than others.

To carry out this investigation we put blue food dye on our tongues and counted the number of big pink bumps (fungiform papillae) which contain our taste buds, we could see within the circle. By counting the number of fungiform papillae we had, we were able to determine whether we were supertasters, tasters or non tasters.

We had great fun and are looking forward to seeing how our results compare with other children from around the country!