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Year 2 have been learning how to create a fairground wheel using axles and pivots.

Knowledge: I can create joints and structures from paper/card and tape.

Skills: I can choose materials that will create strength for my structure.

Vocab: pivot, axle, rotation, stability

Yesterday, the children in Year 4 had a visit from The Mayor, Cllr Paul Donavan. 

Year 2 have been exploring the component parts of  a Ferris wheel.

Knowledge: to build and test a moving wheel.

Skills|: to make my wheel rotate; to make it stable.

Vocab: structure, stable, rotate

In science, Year 5 had the chance to test their eye sight.
Children tested their vision at a 1 meter distance and 3 meter.  

The purpose of this experiment was to explore how human’s eyesight degrades over time 

Year 3 explore properties of 3 d shapes.

The Nursery children collected natural objects outside, then arranged them in their sticky bottles to make beautiful collages.

The Nursery children have been reading 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab' and discussing how many feet different creatures have.

 They then made footprints with paint, counting the footprints as they walked.

We have been revisiting addition and subtraction problem solving using our knowledge of number bonds to 100.

Knowledge: use number bonds to 100 

Skills: use the inverse to check my calculations

Vocab: inverse, number bonds