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• Mill Cottage Farm visit to Willow Class

  Thu 02 May 2019

  Willow Class had a fantastic day on 1^st May. We have been looking at farm animals and we were visited by Mill Cottage Farm. The children loved seeing a whole range of animals: pigs, piglets, goats, kids, ducks, turkeys, donkeys. They were taught how to look after the animals by Farmer Sarah and Farmer Holly. A great time was had by all.

  

• Year 4 trip to Aquarium

  Wed 01 May 2019
  Maple class had a fantastic day at Portsmouth Aquarium! We learnt lots of interesting facts about starfish and spider crabs during our rock pool workshop. Did you know a starfish can regenerate their legs if they lose one? After exploring the aquarium, we walked down to the beach and created sea creatures out of stones and pebbles.

  

• Year 4 Robots

  Thu 04 Apr 2019
  Maple class have been busy designing and constructing their own robots. The children worked really well together creating their robots and problem solving. They were given a design criteria to follow which included incorporating a working circuit.

  

• Fair Trade Easter Eggs

  Thu 04 Apr 2019
  Our children have been ordering Fair Trade Easter eggs. This year, the Easter Egg is not only made from Fair Trade chocolate but also is plastic free with its packaging. Our Fair Trade Ambassadors helped to promote these eggs in school, spreading the message of Fair Trade.

  

• Spelling Bee at Amery Hill School

  Tue 02 Apr 2019

  Today, one child from each year group formed the 'St Lawrence Legends' Team and took part in the annual Amery Hill Spelling Bee. Daisy, Alex, Zathy, Nathaniel, Luke and Tawhid worked together brilliantly and strategically. They also won the interval game where you had to make as many words as you could out of a given word. They managed 32! We were very proud of how they did.

  

• Maple visit to Winchester Science Centre

  Fri 29 Mar 2019
  Maple Class went on a trip to Winchester Science Centre on Friday 29th March.  In our robotics workshop, we learnt how to program are own 'Crumble' robots and some robots had funky light displays! After, we were wowed by the planetarium show and learnt about different technologies in space. We also really enjoyed exploring and learning about all types of Science from the interactive exhibits. Thank you to all of our adult helpers for making it possible.

  

• Year 6 Science Lesson

  Fri 15 Mar 2019

  On Friday 15th March, Hawthorn Class investigated how sun tunnels work.  Their research showed that sun tunnels can significantly change rooms that do not have access to natural light.  We discussed how light reflects off of the tube sides,  having the net effect of light going around corners to reach dark rooms.   The 'Angle of Incidence' theory was discussed and children learnt that whilst light only travels in straight lines, our experiments showed how light tunnels with bends transfer the light from the source to the destination.  We made our own sun tunnels from a selection of resources and we were thoroughly impressed with our results!

   

  

• Year 2 have fun at Alice Holt

  Fri 15 Mar 2019 Miss Heckford
  Larch Class went on a trip to Alice Holt on Friday 15th March.  We really enjoyed den building and finding out more about the forest and the creatures who lived there. We had to work as a team throughout the day. Our teacher thought we showed amazing teamwork and resilience when we were building our dens. A fantastic day was had by all! Thank you to all of our adult helpers for making it possible, sorry that you got a little bit damp.

  

• Year 5 Day at Eggar's School

  Wed 13 Mar 2019

  On Wednesday 13th March 2019 Year 5 visited Eggar’s School for the day and we all had a great time. First of all we learnt some information about the school and its history from Mrs Kinteh. We also learnt about the Eggar’s experience where you can get involved in lots of different clubs and other events. We found out that the original school was built in 1642 but the new site was built in 1967. Next we headed onto the history class and we discovered a murder mystery with Miss Hopkins. By going around the school we could find clues as to how Ruth Ashdown, who was just twelve, died. As well as finding out information about her and her life in Victorian times, we came up with our own theory about how she died and why. In the afternoon we created batik fish with Mrs Drew using wax and dye on material and then dried them with a hairdryer. When we got back the whole class voted the experience between 7 and 10 out of 10.

  

• Year 1 Go Jetters Geography

  Tue 12 Mar 2019

  Year 1 - Geography

  The children have enjoyed building on their compass knowledge from their recent school trip to Gilbert White House.  Together we created a mind map of the different UK landmarks that we know.  The children then followed instructions using both positional language and compass directional vocabulary to help their Go Jetters visit the different landmarks.  Following this activity, the children became cartographers and designed their own symbols and key to represent the famous landmarks - Super work Year 1!