Testing Materials in Year 2- which materials would be most suitable for a hamster cage?
Tonight’s Cooking Club !!!
Learning about Parliament
This afternon Year 5 and 6 participated in a workshop all about parliament. We learnt about the Houses of Parliament and the House of Lords and how they debated on laws. We learnt that when a law is made the bill is passed from one house to the other until they agree on it. This is called parliament ping-pong. We conducted a debate on whether children should be made to walk to school at least one day every week. The speaker (Rohan) was allowed to choose people to put forward their opinion. Once all the suggestions had been put forward, we cast our vote. There were 17 ayes to the right and 20 no’s to the left.
Our special visitor.
Today we found out about Italy. we saw Gondalas in Venice, talked about Italian foods and cars!!
Measuring Up to Leonardo Da Vinci
In Class 2 we have been finding out all sorts of information about Leonardo da Vinci and have checked our measurements against the ones from The Vitruvian Man . Our arm spans were the same as our heights. 
Chefs in Year 2
Gymnastics – Pike and straddle
Our gymnastics lesson today was all about pike and straddle positions. We needed to work on having straight backs and legs. Cesare and Luis choreographed a brilliant routine with several pike and straddle poses. They also thought carefully about their transitions between each move.
The Solar System
Today Year 5 mapped out the distance from the sun to each planet. We used toilet paper, with each sheet representing 10 million km. Earth is 150,000,000 km from the sun with Neptune being 4,500,000,000 km. Many of us didn’t realise that the planets weren’t evenly spread across the solar system.
Space Pictures
In Year 1 we have been learning about space and what it looks like. We created some pictures for our new role play area. We looked at an image and picked out the colours that we wanted to use and then we mixed them together to create a background. Once we had done this we then created our own space rockets using different shapes and working on our scissor skills. The children were able to name the shapes they had used to create their rocket. 
Testing Parachutes
We have been learning about Leonardo da Vinci and his parachute design. How amazing it was to find that his design (over 500 years old) worked! We made our own parachutes from a range of materials and tested them. Look at our photos!
Testing properties of materials
We worked in groups to test whether materials were: bendy, transparent, waterproof or absobent . We planned our own investigations and knew how to make our tests fair.
Solving problems
Hunting for Sounds
Chemical Reactions
This afternoon in our Science lesson, we used chemical reactions to create new materials.
First, we mixed bicarbonate of soda (50g) with distilled vinegar (50ml). The chemical change creates carbon dioxide which is a gas. This gas is used for fizzy drinks, cooling foods on aeroplanes and is used in fire extinguishers to put out fires.
We then mixed warm milk (250ml) with distilled vinegar (1 tbsp). It looked like the milk curdled. We were all amazed that it made a type of plastic called casein.
