Raspberry harvest

When asked by a girl in Y3, “Why do we grow fruit in school and not pick it?” I knew it was time to get harvesting!

Material Detectives

Reception have been using their powers of deduction to sort materials in their teams. We have been learning all about how to take care of the environment and recycle our plastic in fun ways!

Year 1 Trip to Woodlands Farm

On Tuesday Year 1 went on a fantastic adventure to Woodlands farm. They went on a scavenger hunt to the woods, hunted for minibeasts, saw the animals at the farm and made some earth Art!

Yr. 4 – The Digestive System

We learnt the basic parts of the digestive system in humans and what the parts do. We used orange juice, as the acid in our stomachs, water as saliva; for food we used bananas and crackers. First, we chewed up our food and mixed it with saliva before swallowing. The food then travelled down the […]

Monday afternoon in Year 1

Pattern making, alphabet ordering and stringing, Science- Venn Diagram of herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, Meccano construction, subtraction board games!

Yr. 4 – The Water Cycle

We made our own mini water cycle to observe the process of evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection.

Yr. 4 – Changing States of Matter

Our experiment was to find out how quickly ice melted in different conditions. We tried ice in air, ice in salt and ice in water. What is your prediction?

Fire and water experiment

Year 4 found this experiment pretty exciting today!

Animals and the Outside World

Year 5 spent the first part of the afternoon learning about animals and their adaptations. Afterwards, we explored the school grounds looking for evidence of pollination. Zoolab Pollination exploration

Building Friendships Garden Project

Following on from last year’s Lottery funded ‘Building Friendships’ project, there are big plans afoot for the outside spaces at St Margaret’s! Year 2 and Reception mum Gemma Burns has volunteered her time and gardening expertise to work with the school to create an exciting vision for the garden areas in the main school and […]