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Gallery Archive: 2018 - 2019

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Tuesday 21st May 2019 Colour Run for Hospice at Home - We all had great fun and raised money for a brilliant service

Year 4's Fantastic Roman shield

WellBeing Wednesday - today we all went into the glorious sunshine to meditate and relax for 15 minutes. We listened to the sounds around us - birds tweeting, children chattering and general hum of life

Year 4 residential to Newcastle - we had great fun at Beamish, Vindolanda and The Sill

British Science Week - today year 4 took part in British Science Week and tried to answer the question 'Are all bubbles spherical?" We made various wands and ribbon wands - we found each time the bubble left the wand it became a sphere. We then experimented with 3D wands, creating our own from materials and using some ready made wands. we found the film of bubble from each side of the 3D shape adhered to the middle making a rectilinear shape. We then tried blowing into the centre of each shape (where the film met) and found we could create a cuboid bubble. It stayed in this shape as the film was still attached to the sides. until it was blown out of the shape when it became a sphere again. Bubbles become spheres as they try to create the smallest surface area. the answer is YES all free flying bubbles are spherical.

World Book Day

For part of our World Book Day celebrations in year 4 we made videos about our favourite book. We used green screen technology and had great fun. Take a look at our class page for even more book reviews.

Well Being Wednesday - we realise how important it is to look after ourselves and understand how worries can make us feel sad, uncomfortable or even poorly. We spend some time each day thinking of ways to help us each look after our own physical and mental health. This week we spent some time reflecting on the good things in our lives and also thinking about some of our worries We focused our worries into bubbles and blew them away. While we thought of the good things in our life we looked at the bubbles and admired their lovely colours and the way they moved in the wind..

SCIENCE - ELECTRONICS

In Year 4, we built circuits today using a motor, a battery and several wires. We then made moving bugs

TTROCKSTARS BATTLE - Year 3 and 4 had a timestable battle. In just 2 days they answered 47000 questions about multiplication and division facts correctly. It was a tough battle but Year 4 pipped Year 3 to the post to win the game. Well done to all players

Science Club 29th November 2018 We investigated the question 'Can you move a can without touching, blowing or exerting your force on it?' This is the science behind static electricity...When you rub the balloon on your hair, invisible electrons (with a negative charge) build up on its’ surface. This is called static electricity, which means ‘non- moving electricity’. The electrons have the power to pull very light objects (with a positive charge) towards them

Year 4 Radio Adverts

As part of our persuasive writing unit we had to plan and record adverts to promote our school. We used a variety of techniques including - questions to draw the reader in; alliteration and repetition to make sure our phrases stuck in the listener's head; hyperbole to big ourselves up and used our voices to show how enthusiastic about school we are. We hope you enjoy listening to our advert.

Year 4 getting ready for Workington Christmas Light Switch on - 1st December - come to town and see the parade

KS2 Science Club 22nd November. 'Chromotography - Think of chromatography as a race and you'll find it's much simpler than it sounds. Waiting on the starting line, you've got a mixture of chemicals in some unidentified liquid or gas, just like a load of runners all mixed up and bunched together. When a race starts, runners soon spread out because they have different abilities. When we placed our skittles the colours were the runners, the liquid was the starting whistle and the colours seperated from the solid candy.

KS2 Science Club - engineering How can we build a strong tower from fragile materials? The challenge; Create a tower using marshmallows and spaghetti. We looked at structures made from spaghetti and marshmallows, and then tried to create our own. We worked in pairs and had to pool our ideas. We had a great time

In KS2 Science Club we made 'Blobby Bottles' - which are a little like lava lamps.

Here's how we did it in case you feel like having a go at home.

We investigated the question- 'Does the size of tablet used make a difference to how the bubbles are created?'

Materials:

A clean plastic bottle, try to use one with smooth sides
water
Vegetable Oil (or you could use Mineral or Baby Oil instead)
Fizzing tablets (we used effervescent vitamin tablets)
Food Colouring

Instructions:

Fill the bottle up about 1/4th (1 quarter) with water.
Pour the vegetable oil in the bottle until is almost full. You may want to use a measuring cup with a spout or a funnel. You may have to wait a couple of minutes for the oil and water to separate.
Add a few drops of your favourite food colouring. Watch as the colour sinks through the oil. Did your drops of colour mix with the water immediately or float in between for a few minutes?
Break your fizzy tablet in half and drop part of it into the bottle. Get ready … here come the bubbly blobs!
You can even get a flashlight, turn off the lights and drop in another half tablet. This time shine the flashlight through the lava lamp while the blobs are bubbling!

How it Works:

The oil floats on top of the water because it is less dense or lighter than water. The food colouring has the same density as the water so it sink through the oil and mixes with the water. When you add the tablet it sinks to the bottom then starts to dissolve. As it dissolves it makes gas, carbon dioxide. Gas or air, is lighter than water so it floats to the top. The air bubbles bring some coloured water with them to the top. When the air comes out of the coloured water blob, the water gets heavy again and sinks. It does this over and over again until the tablet is completely dissolved.

Extra Experiments:

What happens if you put the cap on after dropping the fizzy tablet in?
What if you drop a whole tablet in?
When it stops bubbling, try sprinkling some salt into your lava lamp. What happens?