Year 5 had a real treat today, the head of D&T at Thurstable School came along with a technician and a whole car full of KS3 resources for a D&T morning. The focus was to make the cradle element of the wire buzzer game that the year group have been designing with the Year 5 teachers. As you can see, it was a very busy morning and our feedback from the Thurstable staff (that our children were engaged, polite, helpful and friendly) was wonderful!

 It's that time of the year already and Nature Club has met for the last time. In the meeting I gave a Question for Everyone. What is the most important, not perhaps the most interesting or most fun, but important thing that you have learnt this year in Nature Club? The answers were excellent! First that they understood the importance of hedges as habitats providing shelter and food all year round and their role as safe "roads" for wildlife moving around an area. Second, the wider importance of trees other than their part in producing clean air, habitat, food source and indicator of the health of an area. Looking after the little guys! How vital the insects that live beneath our feet are. Finally, that we need to respect nature in many different ways, from recycling to not breaking stems from plants to allowing quiet spaces for animals. As you can imagine, this has made me feel that we have had a worthwhile as well as fun time together. Mr Hopegood :)

 Today in Science, we investigated how shadows change throughout the day. At 9:30am, 11:15am and 2:00pm, we went outside to observe how the position of the Sun affected the size and direction of our shadows. The children worked with a partner, using chalk to draw around each other's shadows at each time so they could compare the changes. We discovered that as the Sun moves across the sky, our shadows change in both length and direction, helping us understand how sunlight creates shadows.