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We loved watching the rocket launch on Friday. We were amazed with how high it went. This week we are going to make our own rockets with recycled materials in the craft area.

This week, Year 5 took part in lots of fantastic Science week activities. 

We started the week with a Teams meeting with a mystery scientist: David the Process Engineer.

We designed logos for the 'Logo Lift off' competition

We then shared our Science selfie challenge photos and…

Well done to the volleyball team for all their efforts in tonight's competition. We won 1 drew 1 and lost 2. Great representatives of the academy. Well done and thank you.

Our Science week started with an assembly where we watched some experiments and chemical reactions.  We've researched climate change, built our own rockets, designed logos for the Logo Lift Off competition, tried to predict what work a scientist did from Who Am I photographs (we met with Zoe on…

Year 4 had a fantastic afternoon using their route map whilst walking up to Werneth Low War Memorial. We stopped at several points during our walk to observe the change in land height. We compared our observations to our map, focusing on the contour lines. 

We found the larger parachute took longer to reach the ground due to it encountering greater air resistance.

We made parachutes to investigate the effect of gravity and air resistance. Check out the testing in the next post.

1 Birch have enjoyed making a friend for the main character in our English text, we think that the character is feeling very lonely so we have made a friend for her out of modelling clay. We gave our friend a name, thought about where they live and what they like doing. We then discussed what we…

We had photo clues sent to us from a mystery scientist, we had to try and guess what her job was. We then put together some questions that we could ask her. Rebecca then video called us and we asked her our questions. We found out about her job and we correctly guessed that she was a Mechanical…

We wanted to look at how fabric was made to be waterproof. We experimented with three different materials, glue stick, PVA glue and cooking oil. We predicted which one would make the fabric waterproof. After the experiment we found that the cooking oil was the most waterproof.