Making a model with axles and wheels that actually work was a challenge that the Year 6 took on with confidence and superb creativity. It was a task that was completed at home and some of the children involved their parents and grandparents in the planning and making. All the models worked brilliantly but [...]
Class 6 learning letter Summer 2017
Willow Brook, you are, without doubt, a school to be proud of! This Friday's Red Nose Day was a massive success, thanks to your baking skills, your fabulous attitude when it comes to having fun, your willingness to dress up and take part and your incredible generosity. Even Mrs Roper (who doesn't normally work on [...]
Last Wednesday morning this week year 5 and 6 set out for a fun filled morning at the BGS to take part in an event for British Science Week. During our visit we got involved in lots of activities including looking at fossils through the ages, panning for gold (a definite favourite), separating soil and measuring [...]
I am on the HMS Beagle travelling to Salvador da Bahia, I have collected lots of specimens and insects on my journey and I will go into the tropical rain forest once again. I have had several long walks while I have been here, and have enjoyed the beautiful tropical scenery, I was not put [...]
The next stop was Valparaiso in Chile. I went for long walks in the countryside where I observed the plants and flowers and noted that despite the vegetation there were few insects, birds and mammals. As usual, I was fascinated by the geology and it dominated my observations here. The discovery of seashells far above sea [...]
I set off on HMS Beagle from Plymouth on the 27 December 1831. I have a lot of objectives for this voyage: First, I would like to complete survey work around South America. Further, I would like to obtain an accurate series of longitudes around the world. I would like to make constant observations of [...]
My next stop was the Ascension Islands and we have travelled far along the coast where nothing much grows. There are not many plants but there are lots of animals here; six hundred sheep, goats, horses, cows, birds and guinea fowls. There are also some cats to catch the mice and rats. There are no [...]
I am on HMS Beagle. I found out that coral was all around the island. The name island is called The Abrolhos Archipelago and the island was very nice. I found out that it is made of five rocky islands surrounded by large areas of coral reef-part of the largest coral reef formation in the South [...]
