Separating Materials

Separating Materials

Today in science, we were investigating how to separate different mixtures of solids and liquids. We saw if we could separate salt and water, pasta and salt, rice and paper clips and sand and water. To do the pasta and salt, you just needed to have a bowl with a sieve...
Ruby’s Cheer Journey

Ruby’s Cheer Journey

Part 1 When I first started cheer, it was 2021 so I have been doing it for 5 and a half years. This season I’m on four teams and the teams are called Mini Mafia (which is a Level 1 under 10 prep team), Riot Girls (which is a Level 1 Under 12 prep team), Claw (which is...
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...