Hazel have been experimenting with fire (safely)

As we near the end of the penultimate week of this half term it has been good to look back and reflect on our learning. We have continued our studies of the Great Fire of London learning about the key events, how the fire was fought and how we use different sources of information to collect research and answer questions. We have also made good progress with making our houses ready for our recreation of what a street would have been like in the Great Fire of London. 

We have continued the fire theme in to our science where we have been predicting and then testing which materials it would be best to build a house from. We thought about which materials would be flammable and then today Mr Foard the caretaker carried out a controlled fire to test the different materials. We are going to go through the ashes of the fire next week and look at what the fire did to the different materials to see whether our predictions were correct or not.

The class have been enjoying their maths over the last few weeks with many of the children asking for more challenges and showing that they are keen to deepen their knowledge of key areas. It is really encouraging to see a more resilient and persistent class beginning to appear and see the impact these learning behaviours have on the children’s attitude towards work and what they complete.