Science Day

As part of British Science Week, the children took part in a science day last week. The children were split upinto their houses and took part in several different activities, designed to inspire their curiosity and enthusiasm for the subject.

The activities were...

Setting up a new vegetable patch for the school.

Exploring skittle patterns in water

Exploring colour mixing - a few of us managed to make rainbows by diluting different amounts of sugar to the solution!

And finally, using lemon juice and heat to write and reveal hidden messages.

Many of the children have also created inventions and written letters to enter an engineering competition - watch this space, all who chose to enter will get a certificate and who knows... Sutton could well have the winner!

World Book Day

On Thursday, the school celebrated World Book Day. We brought in our favourite bedtime stories and came to school in our pyjamas. In Orange Class, the children have been really enjoying a musical story called 'the raja with big ears.' They like it so much that they asked to do activities related to the story for World Book Day.

The children first of all had a go at using split pins, card and art straws to make a moving puppet. Some children made the Raja, whereas others made the barber or the tree from the story. Here are our puppets.

Afterwards the children had a go at exploring instruments and played along to the story - it was very noisy and very fun!

Here we are enjoying the music! Have a wonderful weekend! :)

Orange Class making butter

Today we made some butter. We made it out of 'milk' (cream). We churned it by hand just like farmers used to have to do!

"It was fun!" Lily
"It was really hard work!" Florence
"My arms got tired!" Benjamin
"I really loved the work." Tommy
"It made my arms shake." Finlay
"It is heavy!" Kaiden
"We were shaking the butter." Archie C
"It made us dance." Jessie V
"It was fun!" Sophie
"It made me giggle!" Daisy-Mai
"It made me jump." Mia
"It was a nice taste." Megan
"It was spiky when it was done." Erin
"It was very yummy." Phoebe
"I liked it." Max
"It was good fun." Isabella
"It felt funny when we shook it." Jessica S
"It made me tired." Sophia