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Year 3 Trip to the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham
Mon 04 Apr 2022On Monday 4th April, Year 3 visited the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham following our Science Topic on Plants. The children were utterly amazing and not only impressed us with their impeccable behaviour, but also stunned all of us with their recall on vocabulary, the life cycle of a plant, parts of a flower, germination and seed dispersal.
We were able to wander around the gardens and we thoroughly enjoyed looking at trees, flowers and plants from the beautiful and strange to the sublime!
The children then created their own natural artistic creations based on the work by Andy Goldsworthy.
A thoroughly wonderful day was had by all and we fully recommend the venue as a family visit during the school holidays!
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Technology in Year 4
Fri 01 Apr 2022What shape will give a structure the most stability? This was the question Year 4 spent time investigating. We began with a simple piece of paper and noticed that, by changing its shape into a cylinder we could increase the strength and stability of the paper. We tried a series of smaller cylinders (straws) arranged into a larger cylinder. After that, we looked at the strength of squares and triangles using a range of materials including lollipop sticks, match sticks and finally pieces of doweling. On deciding that a triangle was the most effective we went on to create larger shapes that we could fit inside! Great learning and great fun!
