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Year 4 Science
This half term in Science Year 4 are studying the three states of matter. They were all excited to be able to wear the safety glasses and lab coats like ‘real scientists!’ One of their investigations has been into reversible and irreversible changes.
Year 7 Science
Year 7 have been investigating Hooke’s law in science, involving very tricky experiments with balancing, measurements, and maths.
Nursery
Pippins & Acorns Pippins & Acorns We have been learning all about penguins this week which helpfully ties in with penguin awareness day on Monday! We used potatoes, cotton wool and tissue to make penguins; learnt that penguins don’t fly but are excellent swimmers and we also learnt about freezing water into ice! We also…
Reception
This week we have enjoyed learning about transport by rail: our favourite activity was using Duplo to make our own train paintings. We were all given a picture of a form of transport which we had to label and then write a sentence about. Some of us had cars, others had bicycles and the rest…
Year 1
Chinese New Year starts this weekend, so we read a story which told us about the Chinese calendar and now know that it is the Year of the Rat. We had a look at our dates of birth and found out that most of us were born in the year of the snake or the…
Year 2
We have begun our plans for writing diaries as our 1915s Shackleton crew. Lots of fun was had discovering the role we were assigned on board the Endurance from Shackleton himself! After working on constructing our own shelters, we understood just what a challenge Ernest Shackleton had in making sure everyone worked as a team!…
Chinese New Year!
Chinese New year celebrations and wonderful day in Worthing!
Forest School at Copthorne Prep
I have been working with children for over 10 years, mainly within the Early Years sector and I can honestly say that after finishing my Forest School training I have never felt so enthusiastic and excited about teaching, and to go to the woods. Don’t get me wrong, I was not ready for my first…
New Clubs 2020
We had a successful launch of our new STEM club last week! The club enjoyed building, testing and modifying structures built of spaghetti and marshmallows. We can all imagine the bonus at the end of the activity! The first two weeks in ‘Lego tech’ have been very exciting. We have learnt to use our special…
Nursery
This week in Acorns and Pippins class we have been busy making our classroom all wintry! We made some shape snowflakes and some lovely snowmen … all we need now is some real snow! We have been counting up and down from 5 and started to recognise some numerals too.The children in Oaks have been…