The children in Lower I have been settling into their new classroom and have enjoyed the September sunshine by learning outdoors.

Here we have three ‘young mums’ who are demonstrating a super understanding of how to care for their babies.

These two clever little boys showed wonderful cooperation skills whilst driving around a very busy town.

‘We love to have races, especially on the bikes. We can go really fast,’ said this young man.

Physical development is a very important part of our curriculum. We are passionate about our children developing healthy bodies and healthy minds.

Numbers are such fun when you can jump around on them!

This little boy persevered for a fantastic length of time whilst working on this number puzzle.

‘This is my town. It has lots and lots and lots of buildings,’ said this little girl proudly to her friend.

In Design Technology, Form I children have been learning about playground equipment and the different ways in which it can work. We had lots of fun. Here is a video to show just how much!

Our video

One of our budding little scientists in Form I brought in a ‘Make your own Volcano’ so we took the opportunity to go outside and have some scientific fun! Here is a video for you to enjoy!

Form I children are working on a new topic in Science about how plants grow and what they need to do so. We have planted some cress seeds, some in soil and some on damp paper towels. If we keep them damp then they should germinate over the next few days. We then plan to cover half of the plants in the soil to see how they grow without light. Please check back later in the week to see if we are successful.

Does the loudest person have the biggest mouth?

In Form I we have done an experiment to compare the size of our mouths and the noise we can make. We each shouted, “BANANA!” as loudly as we could and listed them from loudest to quietest. We then found out who had the biggest mouth, by measuring how much juice we could hold in our mouths. It was really hard not to laugh, or swallow the juice but we managed to plot our results on a graph.

 Here are some photos, a video and a copy of our graph for you to enjoy!

mouth-graph

Video

…The leg bone’s connected to the thigh bone…

We have learned that without a skeleton we wouldn’t have a shape. This clever little girl has rebuilt the skeleton and found out that we have 206 bones in our body! And more than half of your 206 bones are found in your hands and feet.

Did you know? We have found some  interesting facts about the human skeleton. For instance, while the adult skeleton contains 206 bones, the skeleton of an infant contains 350 (the bones fuse together as you grow).

This little girl gave a star performance to her classmates. Then she played a duet with her teacher Mrs Wood.

These talented girls, who are only six years old, held a mini concert in the classroom. They were all fabulous!

The concentration on this little girl’s face is intense as she works out her strategy to get to the middle of the maze in double quick time!

Think about it! Which way shall I go…? This little girl completed the maze in an  amazing 58 seconds!

We are having fun as well as making healthy choices at ‘The One Stop Shop’. These children are working out whether or not they have enough money to spend on the fruit and vegetables, whilst the shop keeper has to add up how much money they need to buy the goods and also work out the change. They have to  think very hard.