Art

Art

This half term, Class 5 have been doing some Art with Mrs Parsons using Ch’ng Kiah Kiean as inspiration.  They took some photographs around Wolsingham to base their drawings on and then used ink and watercolour to produce the finished product.  The final pieces will...
Thermal Insulators

Thermal Insulators

This week, we did another experiment to understand what thermal insulators are.  We used hot water in a beaker and surrounded it with different materials such as bubble wrap, foil and a scarf.  We discussed why each one would make a good insulator. We measured them...
Solubility Experiment

Solubility Experiment

This term, in Science, Class 5 are exploring the properties of materials.  This week we did an experiment to understand the meaning of solubility.  We had five different substances including sugar, salt, sand and hot chocolate.  We used our understanding of the...
Percentages

Percentages

This week, Class 5 have started their unit on Percentages. To help us understand what a percentage is, we used grids with a hundred squares on them to identify percentages around us.  We learnt that percent means ‘out of 100’ and how we can write this as a fraction...