Tuesday 17th September 2019 Reception Bubbles

Look Bubbles!

Today Reception children had fun with bubbles and predicted what would happen if they blew bubbles with different shaped wands. Click here for more bubble information and activities.

 

 

9th July 2019 Y4 Botanists

This morning Year 4 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.

5th July 2019 Year 1 Botanists

This morning Year 1 became botanists and investigated Venus Fly Traps. To find out more about botany, click here.

4th July 2019 Year 5/6 Environmental Planners

Year 5/6 became environmental planners and used maps to discover how finding out about the past can help us to predict the future. To find out more about environmental planners, click here. Year 6/6 also looked at maps to see how Gateshead has changed over the last century. To have a look at a similar historical map, follow this link:

1899 map

 

 

2nd July 2019 Year 1 Space Explorers

NASA/JPL-Caltech

This morning Year 1 took a trip to Mars with Little E the robot rover from the book “Are we nearly there yet?”. When they got there they designed the Mars landscape and built Mars rover vehicles to explore this new world. For more information about the robots in “Are we nearly there yet?”, more books about space and for activities for you to try at home, click here.

28th June 2019 Y4 Geologists and Y6 Medical Physics

Today Year 4 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.

Y6 have been learning about how we can use physics and technology to look inside the human body and about which professions use medical physics. To find out more, click here. 

27th June 2019 Year 3 Geologists and KS1 Family Workshop

This afternoon Year 3 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.

After school some of the KS1 families became systems engineers. They designed, built, tested and improved marble runs to see who could keep the marble rolling for the longest amount of time. For similar activities to try at home, click here.

27th June 2019 More Year 3/4 Geologist @ South Street!

Two more Year 3/4 became geologists today. Did you know that a meteorite starts off as an asteroid and becomes a meteoroid then a meteor before it lands on earth and becomes a meteorite? To discover more interesting facts about geology, click here.

25th June 2019 Year 1/2 Naval Architects and Year 3/4 Geologists

Iron meteorite from Chaco, Argentina. One of the ‘Campo del Cielo’ fragments first found in 1576.

This morning the third Year 1/2 class became naval architects and discovered how to float a goat on a boat! To find out more about what they did and for some extra activities you can try at home, click here.

After that, Year 3/4 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.

21st June 2019 Year 2 Geologists

 

Iron meteorite from Chaco, Argentina. One of the ‘Campo del Cielo’ fragments first found in 1576.

Today Year 2 became geologists, observing and investigating meteorites which are rocks from space. To find out more about geology, click here.