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Today we pretended we were Engineers. We had to create a house that the Big Bad wolf couldn'y blow down. first of all we had tlk about the problem, then we brainstormed our ideas, then we designed them, then we made them and tested them. After we had tested them we were allowed to make…

This morning we designed and built a boat to try and help the Gingerbread man get across the river without being eaten. Some of us made boats out of salt dough and some of us used foil. All of the salt dough boats sank straight away. The tin foil boats sank more slowly, one of the tin foil boats…

We have had a brilliant time designing new bridges for the Three Billy Goats Gruff. There was lots of great discussion and good ideas. 

We have been making coil pots from clay 

We looked at food webs in class today We read all about different species and habitats and worked out where they fitted into food webs.

Today we investigated reversible and irreversible changes and created some new materials. Safety first we wore our goggles, then did two investigations to make casein plastic and carbon dioxide. It was very exciting. 

The year 3 children have been exploring what it was like to be a Roman in Britain. They have found out about technology, hygiene, religion and education in Roman Britain through books, videos and artefacts.

Lovely to hear some spooky poems and stories from library services today. 

We have enjoyed our superhero topic very much and finished off in true superhero style with a dress up day. We wrote amazing comics, experimented with mixing colours to make super hero biscuits, wrote and performed our own separate hero poem and had lots of superhero crafts! Well done Year…

A story teller visited Year 6 this morning and they really enjoyed the scary stories that she read for them.  

We enjoyed listening to some stories and poems this morning. Jane from Cumbria Library Service visited to read to us.

We learnt about Egyptian hieroglyphs, we tried to write a massage without using any words or letters. Then we decoded a message and wrote our name in  hieroglyphs.