Author: LMNS
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Engineering Week
Engineering Week was the week of March 10th. We make a Lego Duck piece that moved. We also programmed it so that the ducks made noises while moving. This is the first time we have learned about programming things but we hope to learn more programming in the future. We enjoyed taking part in…
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World Book Day
Thursday March 2nd was World Book Day. The children in the Junior Room had a ‘Where’s Wally’ themed day. Thanks to Nora-Kate’s Mum we had a child size version of Wally as well as lots of other Wally items. Some of the children dressed as Wally and completed a Wally themed Maths trail. Others dressed…
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Brownies….no not to eat but just as sweet.
Zarra and Klaudia came into school dressed in their Brownie outfits. They told us about their badges and what they do at Brownies. We hope that they will write a piece for our website soon.
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Electromagnets
In the Senior Room we recently learned about electromagnets. You can see them at work in cranes in scrap-yards where they lift scrap metal. They are also part of M.R.I. scanning machines. We learned that you can make certain materials into magnets by running a current through them. We used an iron nail, at first it…
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10 @ 10:
As part of Operation Transformation we were invited to take part in 10@10. This involved the whole school doing exercise together at 10 a.m. on Friday February 10th. We all went into Mrs. Sheehan’s room and we followed the instructions on the video. It was a very energetic 10 minutes and we hope we can…
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Heritage in Schools – Music through the Ages.
The Heritage in Schools Scheme provides a panel of 175 heritage specialists to visit primary schools throughout the country. The specialist’s areas of expertise range from bats to whales, from vikings to the history of bread, from story-telling to traditional dance, and from charcoal making to military heritage, to mention a few. The scheme supports…
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Valentine’s Day
On Valentine day when we came into school we found Valentine Cards on our desks and we didn’t know who they were from. The children in Miss Quin’s class had made them for us. We are still trying to guess who made our cards because they didn’t write their name on them. Zarra never got…
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Senior Room
The Senior Room has been doing work on 3D shapes in Maths, here are some we made. In Science we have been looking at light, magnification and magnets. Here is a picture of us using a micro-scope and making a magnet. Henry brought in stick-insects. These are our class pets! Henry tells us…
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Ewe won’t believe who dropped in
Jo, Ben’s Mum, brought 2 lambs into school for us to see. We were delighted to be allowed to hold and rub them. They were very cute. Thank you Jo. Ben Daunt’s mom Jo brought two pet lambs to school. We lifted up the lambs and we rubbed them. They felt woolly and soft. They…