Blog by Helen Mackie

Year 4 had an amazing time at Great Tower. The first job was making the beds

We recreated the digestive process in Science today. We tore bread into small pieces (like incisors biting), added saliva (water) and mashed it all up with a fork (molars chewing and grinding).

We then transferred it to a plastic bag (stomach) and added digestive acid (orange juice) and enzymes…

We had a music workshop with Sarah this morning. We played some games, clapping out rhythms then listened to some music and drew the story of it. We learnt a song and then worked in groups to create a haka.

We looked at the digestive system today. We tried to place parts of the digestive system in the right places on our body l.

We worked with a partner to record what teeth we have.

We used cardboard, paperclips, and split pins to make our own switches.

Katy from Coram Education did a great session with us today! We learnt about systems in the human body and good and bad things to put into your body. We rode on The Conformatron ride but managed to avoid conforming to all being the same by reminding ourselves of all the differences between us and…

What an amazing day year 4 have had! This morning a team from BAE came to school to lead an Augmented Reality workshop. We thought about what we like about Barrow and then used Augmented Reality to create a vision of Barrow in the future. This afternoon year 4 went to the boat naming ceremony of…

Heartwood String Quartet visited school this afternoon. They entertained us with their music and taught us about pitch. Year 4 were invited to stand behind and look at the music notation to learn more about it

Year 4 had some wires, cells and a bulb and were challenged to light up the bulb

Today in mucrobit club we magically transported a duck from one microbit to another