The children learnt about materials as conductors or insulators. Conductors allow electricity to flow freely through them, whereas an insulator is a material that does not allow electricity to pass through. The children tested different materials to identify which one was the best electrical conductor and the best insulator.
We took some pictures on the day, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails below for a larger view.
Year 3 have been reading ‘Leon and the Place Between’ as part of their English learning. They then used this for their inspiration to write their own stories. The worked incredibly hard to include lots of interesting adjective, noun phrases and fronted adverbials in their stories.
When they had completed them and written them up in neat, they went down to Year 1 to read them with their stories. All of the children had a fab time and enjoyed reading their stories to Year 1.
We took some pictures of this learning experience, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
“It’s another Harvest Festival, where we bring our fruit and vegetables, when we want to share the best of all things that we’ve been given….”
This line from Harvest Samba, performed so beautifully by KS1 children, captured the joy and celebration of our Harvest Service which took place on Friday 11th October. Thank you to Rev Alison, for leading a superb service, Mr Kimber, for leading the music and all the wonderful helpers at Christ Church, who always work so hard to make sure our church services run smoothly.
Thank you all very much for your contributions towards the Renewed Hope Trust, which is one of our ‘Love Projects.’ These have been taken to the church to be put together with contributions from the rest of the village and will be sent to the Winter Night Shelter very soon. The whole school was amazing as ever with each class bringing in on average two items per child! Thank you all.
This week we have continued with our work on ‘Cave Baby’. The children have worked incredibly hard on their writing this week!
Early in the week, we worked in pairs to write sentences about the animals in the story using the conjunction ‘and’. Later in the week, we split into 2 smaller groups and some of us sequenced sentences about the story and then wrote them in our books.
The rest of the class sequenced pictures and then worked in pairs to write a sentence about each picture.
We have continued to read ‘Leon and the Place Between’. The children have worked hard this week to write their own version of the story.
They have changed the character and have been working incredibly hard to describe the place between using vibrant and exciting language.
We have been using a thesaurus this week. The children have enjoyed using it to upgrade the language they use.
In English we have continued to study ‘FArTHER’ by Grahame Baker-Smith. The work this week has really allowed the children to express their creativity as they set about designing their own flying machines.
Once their design was complete they had to write about its different components explaining what each part was used for. The children then moved on to pitching their design to the rest of their group who then voted for their favourite.
Once this process was finalised each group had to create a presentation to be delivered to the class pitching their group’s chosen design. When all of the presentations had been delivered the class did a blind vote to
pick the overall winning design!
The children thoroughly enjoyed this work and excelled at working as a team.
We started our exciting Science lessons at St Bede’s School . Thank you very much for taking the children there on time.
The children investigated which material was the best insulator of hot water after 5 minutes. They had four beakers of hot water which were insulated with different materials:
Great fun was had by all! We took some pictures of the children hard at work during our visit, which can be seen in the gallery below. Please click on the thumbnails for a larger view.
Last academic year, we asked the children and parents at Nutfield Church School to support the charity ‘Sal’s Shoes’ as part of our Summer term Love Project. We were overwhelmed with all the donations we received!
There are 300 million children in the world for whom walking with shoes is a rarity. This makes them extremely vulnerable to infection by parasites, such as hookworm; while injuries to the feet and ankles can lead to ulcers and other conditions which are almost always left untreated. Without shoes, many children are not permitted to attend school. By donating your used shoes, we have been able to help children from all around the world to attend school, receive an education, grow-up, gain full-time employment and help to make their country self-sufficient.
During the first few weeks of the new Autumn term, Faith Team spent time sorting through all the shoes that had been donated, ensuring they met the strict criteria outlined by Sal’s Shoes. Once the shoes had been selected, the children sorted them into four categories; school shoes for boys, school shoes for girls, non-school shoes for boys and non-school shoes for girls. Before boxing the shoes up, the Faith Team also gave them a quick polish! Mrs Brooks then took the shoes to the collection point in Edenbridge along with the crucial financial donation, which ensures the charity has the funds to be able to pass on the preloved shoes you have so generously given us.
Over the last three days of last week, the children had great fun and learnt some amazing new skills, taking part in kayaking, sailing and windsurfing at the Aqua Sports Centre
on Mercers Lake.
We have watched their confidence grow on the water, as they have learnt how to master their vessels, using the wind and currents to travel across the lake, taking part in games and races and getting regularly dunked – all with huge smiles on their faces!
We are excited about our Science lessons at St Bede’s School over the next few weeks, where the children will be learning about the properties of materials. Please ensure your child arrives at St Bede’s Science block at 8.50am for each session where Mrs Cox will register them.
The Science block is on the left hand side immediately after the main entrance to the school. If you are finding it difficult to arrange transport for your child, please let Mrs Cox know so we can help. After each session, the whole class will travel back to Nutfield Church School by train.
