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Light is a truly amazing thing, but what it is?  Mulberry class discussed their understanding of what 'light' is, during their first lesson of our new science topic. We thought of sources of light such as torches, lamps and the sun, as well as how some of these are lit e.g. by electricity  or fire. We made a start by finding out more about what light is and how it behaves. To do this we investigated light using a cardboard box. We chose 5 items to go under the box.  Then made one hole in the top, and let each person look through, then make more holes in the side, and looked through. Then shone a torch through one hole, whilst we looked in other holes. The class remembered to never look straight into a  light source like a torch, as this will damage your eyes. We found out that when there were no holes in the box, it was completely dark, and so we could not see the objects under the box. As we started  to put more holes in the sides and t...

We have been learning the meaning of some new words related to history such as archaeology, archaeologists, artefact, replica, evidence. We pretended to be real archaeologists and dug up some artefacts very carefully and made notes about what we found. What artefacts did you discover?

Egyptian Day 2019 We all had a lovely day, dressing up, on Monday for our Egyptian Day. The children took part in different activities such as bread making. The children worked as a group to weigh out the ingredients to make a type of flat bread. They mixed, kneaded and later formed a flat shape with the dough.  At the end of the day, after is was cooked, we all tried the bread and everyone said it tasted nice. We also tasted some other foods eaten during Ancient Egyptian times such dates, grapes, and pomegranate seeds.  Each child began to create their own Egyptian mask, and decorated it in gold, just like Tutankhamen's mask found in his sarcophagus.   We learnt how to write our name in hieroglyphics and decorated a cartouche with our name using this Ancient Egyptian writing. We all had a fun day, and enjoyed learning more about the past.  Our Egypti...

We invited the Year one class to join Mulberry Class for a science fair. The Year 3 children created fun and exciting games, investigations and activities all about magnetic forces to teach the younger children. These are some activities that we designed and created. Thank you to Sycamore class for joining us on Wednesday. We all had a fun time learning more about magnets.