Blog by Gaynor Stevens

We have been thinking about how life changed from the mesolithic to the neolithic and we thought life might have become easier. After spending a VERY LONG time using stone age tools (stones) to make flour, we might have changed our minds!

Year 5 have had a wonderful afternoon with Mrs Treadwell making a planet for a display at Tesco. We are delivering it in the morning so if you go shopping please keep an eye out for out handy work and aliens! 

We have turned the classroom into a giant science dictionary, finding definitions of words to do with materials and labelling anything we could. 

The Gardening Club/Eco council have been busy after school weeding some of the beds and planting bulbs ready for Spring, we can't wait to see how they look next year!

Working on our hockey skills this afternoon

Amazing work done by Mrs Treadwell and Year 5 on our Harvest loaf. Thank you Mrs Treadwell

This afternoon was all about the mesolithic and we split into groups and acted as the hunters and the prey. The children worked out that you are more likely to be caught if you are on your own and not in a herd and if you are a prey animal, not getting trapped in a corner is useful.

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Unfortunately, our Stone Age Den making day has been postponed so we decided to devote the morning to the neolithic and investigated and made stone age settlements. We have really enjoyed it. 

We have been investigating how sound is made and used data loggers to increase and decrease vibrations to see how it affected volume. It was noisy and fun. 

We have been making offerings to the gods and asking for successful hunts and harvests. We also made some small cave pictures on stones and used them to make a story.

Channel 4 may have the Bake Off, we have the Dunk Off! We have spent the afternoon testing the strength of biscuits. 

We have been exploring Roman Numerals