A rhyme about anything! A rhyme is where we repeat a sound, often at the end of a line in a poem to try and add a rhythm or abit of music to the spoken word. They can be great fun. And don’t really need to be sensible or have…

This week we have been learning about money. We have used different coins to make amounts so that David could pay for new equipment for his journey across Tanzania. We tried making £1 using the least number of coins possible. Can you work how to do it? Now we are…

Head over Tails! Arrange 4 coins in a row, facing tails up. Turn any 3 coins over. This is 1 move! (for every move you MUST turn over 3 different coins) What is the fewest moves needed to get all of the coins on heads? Remember: One move requires you…

This weeks brain booster is to design a brand new animal, thinking about which habitat it would be well suited to. Use your brain booster books to design them or use the web link below. You can now upload a photo onto your comment and it would be great if…

  Optical Illusions – Motion Illusion An optical illusion is when we perceive something different to how it truly exists. The most common reason for this is that the visual information been sent to our brain to be processed is generating a false impression. In other words our brain is…

The Ruined Castle! Can you come up with a word bank of imaginative adjectives that could be used in some descriptive writing for the scene in this picture. Try and consider more of your senses than just sight. What can be seen? Heard? Smelt? Felt? (Maybe not tasted!)    …

We have been learning all about how animals can make themselves almost invisible in their surroundings. We looked at how lots of animals are camouflaged. We used pastels to have a go at creating our own animal print pictures. Can you remember why animals might need to be camouflaged?

Funky 15! Use 3 of these cards to create a total of 15. (For example 1 + 5 + 9 = 15) Easy? How many different ways can you do this? (Don’t forget to use the 0 card!)

This afternoon saw HCPS holding a Kirk Balk pyramid inter-school cross country event and the only thing that out shone the weather was the talent and effort given by all the children taking part. Thank you Mr Hardy for running such an excellent event! Not only was it fun and…

Plants can be interesting too! Plants are living organisms such as trees, herbs, bushes, grasses, vines, ferns, mosses, and green algae. They provide us with food for eating, wood for building materials, chemicals and extracts for medicines and they also convert carbon dioxide into life giving oxygen. They are composed of…