We had 4 different brands of nappies and we had to find out which nappy would hold and absorb the greater amount of liquid. Aldi won!
Sycamore Science Day
8th Dec 2021
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Leaf man
8th Nov 2021
This is a story of a man made of leaves and his journey over the earth’s landscape and the wonderful sights he sees as well as the friends he makes. Wow! did you know, as the plants break down the chlorophyll, the green colour disappears from their leaves. Depending on which chemicals are found in the leaf, […]
“Take One” Art
22nd Oct 2021
This year’s picture is “Woman in a Hat and A fur Coat” by Pablo Picasso. Each class uses a picture for inspiration for their art work. Some of our classes created with own art work inspired by the Pablo Picasso artwork and others used his cubism style of art to inspire their own paintings. Cubism […]
All about autumn
13th Oct 2021
Today, we looked at autumn seeds and leaves. The leaves are starting to turn different colours in our woods. The trees are producing many different seeds. They all look very different. We looked at small red hawthorn berries, sloe berries, conkers and the large spikey sweet chestnut. Some of […]
KS1 Battle of Hastings workshop
5th Oct 2021
We had a fantastic day, re enacting the Battle of Hastings, playing Anglo Saxon games and devising our battle strategy!
Orienteering
29th Sep 2021
We used our navigational skills to navigate our way around the school grounds. We followed instructions and a map of the school grounds to navigate from point to point, marking our control points on the map with a red dot.
Easter in the Woods
25th Mar 2021
On our way into the woods today, the children had to find the matching parts of their eggs. But, when we got to Forest School, we found that the naughty squirrels had stolen the poor Easter Bunny’s eggs and hidden them around the woods. Fortunately the clever Easter Bunny had used […]
Reversible and irreversible changes
5th Nov 2020
Today we have been thinking about revisable and irreversible change as part of our material topic. We melted chocolate, cooked popping corn, melted ice and cooked toast on the fire. Which ones were reversible and which ones were irreversible?
Stories in Familiar setting
16th Oct 2020
In sycamore class for our English work we have been looking at stories in familiar settings. We made Knuffle Bunny and learned the story off by heart using talk for writing. We retold the story and then we wrote our own versions. We changed the story settings and the lost toy. We made story maps, […]
Senses walk
13th Mar 2020
For our science this week, we have been learning about our 5 senses. We went on a senses walk around school to describe what we could see, touch, smell and hear. We had lots of fun!
