Heating Materials!

In Science this week we were looking at what happened when you heat different materials. We heated different materials over a candle (chocolate, cheese, bread, oil, cracker and water) and saw whether they melted, burnt or stayed the same. First we had to make a prediction (this means a guess) about what we think would happen.

We also thought about how to make the investigation a fair test. Some of the ways to make it a fair test were using the same size of each material and heating for the same amount of time.

Look at the photographs above of the results of the investigation and see if you can guess what the material was before it was heated and what happened to it. Did it burn, melt or no change?

Can you remember what happened to the water?

Exploring Claybury Forest!

We had great fun this week when we did some exploring over Claybury Forest. First we walked through the puddles and mud and then reached the giant hill. We did some hill races and played a game called 'welly wanging' where we had to see who threw the wellington boot the furthest. Then we built some dens using old wood, before having a scavenger hunt and exploring the adventure playground. We enjoyed ourselves and did lots of exploring along the way.

Thank-you to everyone who helped to make the trips a success!

Mr. Merchant

Explorers!

This term we are all very excited because we are learning all about Explorers! We are also going to do some exploring of our own!

We started the topic by writing down everything that we already knew about explorers - what a lot we already knew!

Then we had to do some exploring of our own. We had to explore some unusual objects and try to guess what they were. One was a typewriter, one was a sieve, one was a compass, one was a religious vase and one was a pair of binoculars. We think we may be able to use some of these in our own exploration!

2M will visit Claybury Forest on Monday 17th and 2P on Tuesday 18th, where we will do some exploring of our own. Children should come to school in old clothes on this day with wellington boots and then bring clothes and to change into when we are back at school, as it will be very muddy over there.

Unfortunately I was off school ill on Thursday and Friday but heard that you all worked really hard so well done! I will hopefully be back on Monday.

Mr. Merchant



A video to introduce our topic. Please turn your sound up to enjoy the music!
Can you name any of these Explorers? Do you know what they explored?