This summer term the children learnt about transport. They looked at buses, trains and boats. The children also went on a trip to experience travelling on different transport, including the exciting cable cars. Come and take a look…
As part of our aiming high and raising aspirations for our pupils at Buttercup, the school took the year 6 pupils to the very famous and prestigious Cambridge University. The pupils visited Clare’s College and had a tour around the university campus. Pupils met students who studied there and learnt a bit about university life. The day ended with mini lessons on literacy and history delivered by professors!
Everyone came out beaming with excitement and in looking towards the future for further education !!
This year in Cambridge University the children had a creative literacy lesson at the university’s finest museum hall .’Fitzgerald Museum ‘ The children worked in groups looking carefully at original historic art pieces painted by famous painters such as De Vinci . The two painters and paintings that they analysed were by Alrfred Elmore and Claude Monet . The children thoroughly enjoyed analysing and investing the paintings trying to discover the meaning , mood behind the artist and the pictures they wrote such wonderful pieces!
Year 6 were taught important first aid skills that will help them in the future. Everyone thoroughly enjoyed
practising CPR and all gained a basic first aid certificate.
As part of their Science topic Habitats, the students went to the cemetery park which boasts a wealth of diverse habitats, including open grassy glades, deciduous woodlands and freshwater. The children experienced a rich variety of plants and animals and they conducted a survey of the flora and fauna of 2 different habitats.
The Year 5 children went to the David Attenborough studio at The Natural History Museum and took part in a workshop that looked at classifying organisms. All living organisms are classified into groups based on very basic, shared characteristics. Organisms within each group are then further divided into smaller groups. The children looked at clues and classified different organisms into groups. It was a great day for the children to demonstrate their knowledge.
During international week. Year 1 & 2 learnt all about Turkey. The vibrant culture, the rich history and mouth watering food! The children had the opportunity to enhance their understanding of this wonderful country further during a special live Skype call with a grade two class in Turkey. We connected with Ukeb school in Izmir and ks1 asked the children many questions like: How many languages are spoken over there, What is your most famous football team called? What is your school uniform and what games do you play? The Turkish students also discovered interesting facts about London and live in a UK school. Overall the experience was enlightening and the children are excited for their next task of writing Ramadan greeting cards for their new friends.
Assembly
Key stage 1 and 2 children met together and shared their new found knowledge about the countries they studied. Year 1 and 2 shared information about Turkey. Year 3 and 4 shared facts about Iraq and the Year 5 and 6 children talked about North and South America. The children celebrated the wonderful diversity of our school by showing off their outfits and learning the names of the them.
Year 1 & 2 had a fantastic day exploring the magnificent Tower of London. Linking with their topic of Castles, children had opportunity to see features of a castle first hand and enhance their learning of key events in British history.
Here are some highlights!
Fire safety awareness for the children.
Cause of fire in the home and how to avoid them
The importance of a working smoke alarm.
what to do in the event of fire and how to keep safe.
To end the term for KS1 and the Early Years on the topic Animals & Habitats , the staff booked in a special treat and invited the zoo into their classrooms. All the children were excited and had the chance to touch and hold many different animals. It was a very educational experience. the following animal were brought in by Zoo4You.
Python, Meerkat. Tortoise, komodo Dragon, Macauw Parrot and many others!
This year the school celebrated the wonderful world of science with a packed exciting week !
The following topics were studied in depth and enjoyed thoroughly by all the children and teachers :
Foundation – Ocean life and electricity
KS1 – plants and growth ( microscopy)
Years 3/4 :
Fossils and Fuels ( material change , Forces )
Year 5/6 : CSI: crime scene investigation ( Force , microscopy and forensics)
On Friday marking the last day of Science week everyone took part in a dressing up competition and came into school dressed up in anything relating to science . Everyone including the teachers took part.
Here are the highlights….
Through an initiative of the Oxford Royal Microscope society our school took part in getting to understand a specialist area of interest in science ‘ microscopy ‘, The school had successfully applied to take part and had received a case of microscopes and many resources and samples for study for our budding scientists here at Buttercup!
Children in KS1 used the equipments to look into plant cells and were fascinated by the tiny organisms that they saw, there was a ‘wow!’ factor that had taken place in class that could not been achieved from a text book. We have decided to keep the equipments with us for the whole term and other year groups will go on to use it to discover how small things can really become interesting when looked into closely!
Watch out we will be planning on exciting Microscopy after school clubs soon!
