So after spending the last few weeks finding out about the Mayans, rainforests and plants, there was only one place we could visit – The Eden Project. The children had to complete a Chocology workshop. This involved finishing out about the history of chocolate before entering the rainforest biome to hunt for hidden treasure chests…
All week, children from across the school have been taking part in special activities which all have a link to science as part of Science Week. These have included KS1 children having a visitor who helped them to design, build and test Mars rovers out of Lego. KS2 children then watched NASA video animations of…
Dea, from Resource Futures, visited Oak Class to talk to the children about recycling paper. The children shared their knowledge about how paper is made and Dea expanded this by explaining how much energy. is used in the harvesting, transport and manufacture of trees into paper. Following this, the children all got to make their…
On Wednesday we celebrated our 200 Year anniversary! Lots of children dressed up, everyone had some cake and fun was had by all. We had a lovely open afternoon for ex-pupils and staff, and fabulous contributions from local people who hold Kenton Primary dear to their hearts. We shared lots of old photos and documents from…
Oak Class were visited by Cara from the arts organisation, Daisi, today. The theme was Tudor buildings in response to the fire at the Royal Clarence Hotel two years ago. After looking at some of the older buildings in Exeter, they did some quick sketches in their art books focussing on the basic shapes could…
Oak’s trip to Bath (by Elizabeth, Year 4) On Friday 15th June, Oak class went on a school trip to Bath. We went to the Roman baths in Bath! First all of, Oak went to Kenn Primary to get on the coach (Jeff was our driver) so we didn’t need to stop on the way….
Oak class joined with Year 3/4 from Kenn and went to visit Charmouth beach. The trip was part of our science topic of Rocks and Fossils and gave the children the opportunity to show our guide, Chris, how much they knew already. They certainly did us proud and could explain all about how fossils formed…
Sharing some photos from the recent KS2 trip to Plymouth Aquarium as part of our Science Week activities. The three activities were a VR experience of going to the bottom of the sea in a submarine; making and testing a film case that would sink the slowest. The two classes then competed against each other,…
Children in Oak and Chestnut classes had chemistry workshops this morning with Ruth from Sciencedipity. It began with Ruth demonstrating mixing chemicals to make different coloured liquids, before making ‘elephant’s toothpaste’ with another chemical reaction. Then it was the bit the children had been waiting for… making slime! To finish off, everyone went outside to…
Oak Class have been to Plymouth University for a podiatry workshop! It began with children finding out the names of the bones in their feet and talking about what their feet are for and how to look after them. After looking at models of feet, they then all carried out an investigation about whether taller…