Last week we had a lovely walk to the park to identify signs of Summer for our Science topic.
We founds lots of signs of summer. We even had Toffee join us on our trip!
As part of our ‘Under the Sea’ topic, we have been talking about ocean pollution. We made group posters to tell everyone how to save our sea creatures and create better habitats for them to live in.
This week, we have been developing our skills in science and working scientifically. We completed an investigation to find out which conditions woodlice prefer. We split a tray into four sections. The four sections were dark and dry, dark and damp, bright and dry and finally bright and damp. We then placed some carefully collected woodlice in the tray and predicted which section of the tray the woodlice would go to. Then, we observed closely and used our observations to answer questions about the type of habitat woodlice prefer. Afterwards, we put the woodlice back in their micro-habitat outside.
Y2M were one of the lucky winners of a competition to design a milkshake, with Holly T creating a fantastic design. As our prize, we go to visit Embleton Hall Dairy Farm to find out how milk gets from the cow to the cartons we drink every day in school. We had a session with Animal Encounters, a tour of the farm’s fields and cow sheds to complete an activity trail, saw the milking robots milking cows, visited the nursery to see the calves and visited the dairy’s production plant to see the milk getting put into cartons! We had such an amazing day and learnt so much.
As part of our Science topic this half term, Y2W visited South Shields coastline and explored the rock pools, which are unique habitats. We identified different living things that live there and talked about how they are adapted to their habit. We talked about how rock pool habitats provide the basic needs for different kinds of animals and plants that live there, and how they depend on each other. We found lots of living things such as limpets, barnacles, anemones, dog whelks, crabs, fish, seaweed and jellyfish.
Nancy from South Shields Surf School, who guided us, was super impressed with our enthusiasm, brilliant questions, finding skills and how much information we remembered. We loved it!
Y2L were one of the lucky winners of a competition to design a milkshake. As our prize, we go to visit Embleton Hall Dairy Farm to find out how milk gets from the cow to the cartons we drink every day in school. We had a session with Animal Encounters, a tour of the farm’s fields and cow sheds to complete an activity trail, saw the milking robots milking cows, visited the nursery to see the calves and visited the dairy’s production plant to see the milk getting put into cartons! We had such an amazing day and learnt so much.
As part of our Science topic this half term, Y2M visited South Shields coastline and explored the rock pools, which are unique habitats. We identified different living things that live there and discussed why they are suited to their habitat. We talked about how rock pool habitats provide the basic needs for different kinds of animals and plants that live there, and how they depend on each other.
We had lots of fun and only got a little bit wet!
Children in Year 2 from across South Tyneside were invited to enter a competition to design a milkshake. We were the lucky winners and today Y2W visited Emblton Dairy Farm to find out how milk gets from the cow to the cartons we drink every day in school. We had a session with Animal Encounters, a tour of the farm’s fields and cow sheds, saw the milking robots milking cows, visited the nursery to see the calves and visited the dairy’s production plant to see the milk getting put into cartons! We had such an amazing day and learnt so much…even if we did get a little bit wet!
Y2L visited South Shields coastline and explored the rock pools, which are unique habitats. We identified different living things that live there and discussed why they are suited to their habitat. We talked about how rock pool habitats provide the basic needs for different kinds of animals and plants that live there, and how they depend on each other.
We had lots of fun but got very wet!
After a week of work, the children have competed in their STEM week competition. They delivered their presentations to a panel of judges – including the Economic Inclusion and Career Development Coordinator for South Tyneside, a representative from the National Centre for Computing Education and the deputy head, Mr Donnelly. The children came back from presentations full of energy and enthusiasm. Their ideas got feedback such as ‘that’ll be tough to top’ and ‘this could work in the school yard to create energy’.
They have also took part in 3 robot games – which involved running their code to complete as many tasks as possible to score the highest amount of points. There have been some jumping with excitement and some hands covering faces in disappointment – but with some amendments and improvements, fun was had by all.
The semi-finals of the robot game took place in the afternoon (after an impromptu quarter finals because of a 7-way tie for 4th place), with the 6 top scoring teams competing in a knock out. The top 3 teams went through to the finals to compete for the robot game trophy.
To end the day, the children enjoyed the trophy ceremony. Each of the winning teams received a trophy and were celebrated by their peers in the sports hall.
The winners were:
Robot Design – Brick-otatoes (6F)
Core Values – Game Changers (6T)
Innovation Project – Brainiacs (6A)
Judges’ Award – Super Septuplets (6A)
Robot Game – Rotten Robots (6T)
Champions Awards (and overall winner of the week) – Energetic Energy (5L)
Based on the output of work, dedication to coding and overall enthusiasm from the children this week, the staff would like to think that STEM week was a roaring success!
