Coming up in Spring 2 Science

It’s a busy half-term, as usual, for our St. Margaret’s scientists.👨🏾‍🔬🧑🏽‍🔬 Reception continue to explore the world around them, and with the garden bursting into life as Spring finally seems to be on the way, there are new things to discover every day. KS1 are learning about materials and their properties. They’ve been doing lots […]

A wonderful half-term of Science at St. M’s

It’s been a busy old term of Science at St. Margaret’s, with some fantastic learning happening across the school. We’ve been in space upstairs in Years 5&6, as they learned about Earth in Space. From a brilliantly creative analogy of the earth as a kebab and the heater as the sun to explain day and […]

From Earth to space – Science at St. Margaret’s

Science is everywhere you look at St. Margaret’s, from Reception hunting for signs of spring in the garden, to Years 5 & 6 plotting the waxing and waning of the moon. Year 1 have been learning about classification. They’ve used an animal making ‘machine’ to make mammals and have been playing Guess Who in order […]

Maps, charts and globes for Year 4 at the PPMMCC

Year 4 visited the Prince Philip Maritime Museum Collections Centre on Tuesday, to learn about maps, charts and globes. This is the storage and conservation facility for the National Maritime Museum and is a state-of-the-art facility containing well over a million artefacts. We looked at a 600-year-old vellum chart, a 400-year-old globe and the first […]

Lunar landscapes (and Luna seeing landscapes)

We continued our work on atmospheric perspectives by producing lunar landscapes last week. Using our knowledge of colour mixing, shades, tints and silhouettes, the children created some beautiful work, which was then admired by its namesake, when we had a surprise visit from Mr Wilson and Luna! 🐶

Year 4 visit Creekside Discovery Centre

Year 4 had a fantastic trip to Creekside Discovery Centre last Tuesday, on a glorious, sunny day. We spent some time in the classroom, learning about the history of Deptford Creek and showing off our Geography knowledge (cue a VERY proud teacher) before donning our waders and waterproofs and getting into the creek itself. We […]

Learning about Mezuzot in LKS2

We have continued our learning about Judaism by finding out about the mezuzah. The word, which literally means ‘doorpost’, is used to refer to a small scroll of parchment, upon which is written two biblical passages from the Book of Deuteronomy. These passages remind Jewish people of their obligations to G-d and reminds them of […]

LKS2 Atmospheric Perspective

LKS2 have been exploring atmospheric perspective in Art this half-term. We learned about the background, middle ground and foreground of landscape paintings and discovered how the light hits each part differently to produce a sense of perspective. This made us think about the science of light, and how we see, in order to try and […]

Classification Keys in LKS2

Years 3 & 4 have been learning about how scientists use classification keys to identify living things, based on their observable characteristics (the things that you can see). We used keys to sort different pond animals, in order to identify them, then made our own keys in order to identify a different set of animals. […]

Geography fieldwork in LKS2

Years 3 & 4 have visited Manor House Gardens this week in order to observe the Quaggy River as part of our Geography learning for this half-term. We used 4-digit references to locate Manor House Gardens before we left and also looked at satellite and pictorial maps of the area. When we arrived at the […]