On Wednesday, Year 5 had a Buddhist Nun come and visit our classroom. We practised meditating, focusing on our breathing. We learnt about what her life is like as a nun. We learnt about the shrine and what each element means in the Buddhist culture. This exciting experience will help us when we come to learning more about Buddhism.
Year 5 enjoyed a trip to the National Space Centre in Leicester. We had a planetarium show, which was so interactive. We enjoyed learning about the moon and it's phases. We climbed to the top of the rocket tower and explored the Centre.
In Design and Technology this half term, Year 1 have been creating and explaining a suitable design, making a stable and strong structure with a functioning turbine and evaluating and testing their own windmill's for a mouse.
On Monday 18th March, ‘Hands on Science’ delivered workshops for Year 2,3,4,5, and 6. Year 2 took part in the CSI biometrics session. Year 3 enjoyed fireworks science. Year 4 did a CSI blood spatters workshop. Year 5 looked at the concepts behind black holes and Year 6 completed a circulation and heart dissection workshop.
Last week the children engaged in a range of activities on World Maths Day, specifically focusing on the use of money.
Today Year 4 travelled to Burghley House to create wonderful wire sculptures of dragonflies. They used wire and wire cutters to create beautiful creatures.
Year 4 explored the adventure playground, Garden of Surprises and the Sculpture park.
We had a lovely day!
On Tuesday 19th March, Year 4 travelled to the Cathedral to learn about the Easter Story. We took part in lots of discussions, acted out Palm Sunday and created art to share our ideas. After lunch, we thought about symbols connected to our learning and created clay tiles that we brought back to school.
Year 2 have been learning about capacity. They experimented with the different containers and practised measuring how much each one held. They were able to read the scales and were working on estimating the capacity of each container.
On Tuesday 19th March, Reception class visited St John’s Church – their very first school trip! The children all listened very carefully to the church warden, who told them about some of the different things that can be found inside a church. The children then explored the church in a small group and identified the stained-glass windows, font, pulpit, lectern and pews.
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On Thursday 7th March, we celebrated World Book Day in school. The children were able to dress up as their favourite book or book character and it was so lovely to see all the fantastic efforts that had gone into these outfits. We started our day with a whole school assembly and the children then completed lots of World Book Day themed activities in their classroom. We then got together again in our outfits to have a whole school photo taken to remember the exciting day we had.
During the week commencing 29th January, we celebrated National Storytelling week. During the week, the children completed lots of activities linked to storytelling, including using puppets to retell familiar tales, and identifying traditional tales using clues from the stories. Some classes also visited other classes to complete a storytelling session of stories that they had written and some classes completed creative pieces of writing and shared these with a partner. During the whole school assembly, we talked about the origins of stories and discussed the important reasons for reading and listening to stories to inspire and educate ourselves.
The football team at Heritage Park Primary School have competed in several games this term. We are proud of how well the team have represented our school and the excellent sportsmanship they have shown.
The school football team have also taken part in a football tournament at the Idverde training ground in Peterborough where they played a total of 5 games. Despite the cold weather, they enjoyed the games, worked well together and we saw our best results yet. Well done everyone.
