Come with us on a journey into the far reaches of space.  We will be discovering what makes up our solar system and learning how and why the planets move in space the way we observe.  Learning about forces, we will be using this knowledge to design our own Mars rovers and construct them so that they will be able to withstand the demands of an alien lanscape. 

Week 3- Creating lunar rover designs.

As part of our enquiry, we have been set the design task of creating an operational lunar rover model.  We need to build this using pulleys and electric motors.  We grouped up into design teams and considered the form and the function.  We then designed a plan for our model, using ideas from Roll-Royce to inspire us!

Week 2- World Book Day

This week, we celebrated World Book Day with some really exciting activities.  Kicking off the day, we took part in a national online Football and Book Quiz.  We did well although we were slightly disappointed in Mr Myland's lack of foot ball knowledge! 

We then joined our Year 2 friends in the hall and had a "Book Picnic" where we shared our favourite books together over a biscuit.  

Our children entered a national competition to design a new book token- the winner of this will have their design printed on thousands of tokens sold in shops around the country so fingers crossed!

We finished our day with a book scavenger hunt where we competed against our friends to find items that related to book clues. 

Week 1- The Solar System

This week the children have started their learning about space.  We've been gathering knowledge about each of the planets and learning a sentence to help us to remember the order they are in from the sun.  We then looked at how the planets orbit the sun.  By creating human models of the orbits on the playground, we were able to see why the planets take different orbit times and also why they rarely align.