Year 2 are starting our whole school, Forest School sessions!
Each year group has 4 weeks timetabled throughout the year lead by our Forest School Leader, Mrs Dunn. Information will be sent via SeeSaw to individual year groups before sessions begin.
This week the children made mouse houses from natural materials, linking to the story Tidy about the importance of Forest environments.
Please see below examples of appropriate clothing to get muddy and keep us warm and dry.
In the this weeks Friday Flyer there’s a Sunderland Foodbank update and a reminder about how you can help. We have news of our girls football team and how your child can join the football club. Also Captain Chemistry hit Year 3 and presented a wonderful workshop on magnets and their forces. All this and much more. Happy reading!
A report written by Aryssa (4G)
The digestive system
Captain Chemistry started his lesson by getting weetabix and asked a volunteer to crush it. This represented the mouth when you are chewing your food. To represent the oesophagus tube he got a plastic bag and poured the food into the bag. After that, Captain Chemistry asked a volunteer to pour this mixture into the bag (the stomach) with a funnel. Next Captain Chemistry asked the class to vote for vinegar and orange juice so that there would be acid to fight any germs or bacteria in the food. This mixture was poured into the tights. To represent vitamins coming out, a volunteer squeezed the tights the liquid that was coming out was the vitamins.
Skulls
Kindly, Captain Chemistry brought in some skulls of animals such as an otter’s skull, a rabbit’s skull and more. We all got to examine these skulls and see how they looked.
Thank you Aryssa for your fabulous report – it sounds like a wonderful workshop for Y4!
In the this weeks Friday Flyer we hear about what the children have been learning in this weeks assemblies, including the King’s Coronation, what it means to be British and our British values. There’s information about an ongoing cake design competition and how to enter. You can read about the Year 1 children visiting the Sunderland Empire to watch the production of the Lion King. Aryssa in Year 4 has also written a report about the school visit of Captain Chemistry. All this and much more. Happy reading!
In the this weeks Friday Flyer we’ve got basketball finals news, an exciting birth announcement, year 3’s visit to The Winter Gardens, some club news and some info about Children’s Mental Health Week. All this and much more. Happy reading!
A piece of the moon village.
Last week, year 5 had the priviledge of hosting Helen Schell in school . Helen is an artist who works alongside NASA and is extremely knowledgeable about earth and space.
“We had an amazing day finding out more about space and being creative at the same time.”
As this is year 5’s current science topic, they were able to have many of their questions answered. They also considered the future of space travel and designed and produced their own moon villages. Year 5 had a great day developing their knowledge of earth and space as well as being creative with sculpture and working together to produce the final showpiece.
The children creating the moon village.
“Helen knew so much about space and space travel and I learnt so much! It was great to work in a group to produce our moon village.”
RAPS celebrated World Science Day this week as the children enjoyed a number of mini science experiments which were part of their class assemblies. Experiments ranged from making colourful slime to rainbow colour mixing and paper towel colour mixing. The children learnt how to create a non-Newtonian liquid, liquids that bond together and about the absorbency of paper. It was great to see the children so excited and building their love of learning in Science.
Our new blue tit chicks
Our nest box is back up and running this year. We have moved it to a more shaded and sheltered area than we had it in the past. We’re hoping that this makes it more comfortable (less hot!) for our inhabiting birds.
This year we’ve been lucky enough to have two blue tits living in and they have produced on last count seven (or is that nine as some are reporting) chicks.
We are hoping all grow healthy and fledge as canny little birds.
You can follow the box on twitter which we regularly update with photos and videos as they develop. The hashtag is #RAPsBirdbox