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  • Primary Engineering Competition

    Published 10/02/23

    We have been trying our hand at inventing to, by creating our entries for the Primary Engineering Competition. We were so excited to get started by identifying a problem and then inventing something to solve this problem. We have been blown away by the children’s kind, empathetic and ingenious ideas- engineers in the making!

    We have designed toothbrushes that make teeth brushing more fun, underwater cleaning machines to remove plastic from the ocean, planting and cleaning devices for people who are disabled, bird detecting binoculars, energy saving apps and so much in between! 

    Now that we have completed our designs, we welcome you to explore our engineering gallery which shall be open in the school hall on Monday 20th February between 3 and 3:30pm. If you cannot make this time with your child, our gallery shall also be displayed when you attend Parents’ Evening in the first week after half term. Our competition entries shall be sent off following this and we shall await the results around May time!

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  • Wind Turbines

    Published 10/02/23

    As part of our learning about engineers, we have been exploring the process that engineers follow when innovating something new. 

    We worked together to design, build, test wind turbines to solve the problem of renewable energy in our current world.

    There was a lot of problem-solving, testing different materials and improving our designs involved in the process, but we successfully built our final working product with great pride!

     

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  • Rosie Revere Engineer

    Published 24/01/23

    Today, Amazon Class have explored their new book! First we discovered a very well-used toolbox, marked with the letter ‘R’ and found lots of interesting items inside, such as; a red spotty scarf, a notebook, a spanner, nuts and bolts, stencils, ruler, pencil and other drawing tools.

    We made predictions about what our new book might be about. Does the red scarf belong to Little Red Riding Hood on her way to fix something at Granny’s house, or does it belong to a young engineer who spends her days drawing designs and bringing them to life? 

    We were so excited to discover the title of our new book- ‘Rosie Revere, Engineer’ by Andrea Beaty and can’t wait to use this fantastic book to inspire our writing and find out more about Rosie! 🔧 ✏️ 🗒️

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  • What is an engineer?

    Published 05/01/23

    This week, Amazon Class have started to explore their new topic for this term- ‘If you were an engineer what would you do?’ We asked the children what they think an engineer is and what sorts of things do they do. I set the children a mini challenge to discuss this question with their grown-ups at home too.

    The children had lots of different initial perceptions of an engineer, as you can see pictured above!

    We can’t wait to get stuck into this topic during Term 3, when we shall be learning about all the different roles engineers can have, the skills they need, the processes they follow, together with exploring early inventions from the past. We shall also be taking part in the ’If you were an engineer’ competition in partnership with UWE Bristol. More info to follow!

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  • The Egg Theatre

    Published 12/12/22

    Amazon Class have had the most wonderful time at The Egg theatre this afternoon, watching The Five Children and It. After putting on their own performance last week, it was time to sit back and enjoy watching someone else putting on the show!
    The children were wonderful and made me very proud. They loved the show and were extremely excited on the way home, spotting the Christmas lights of Bath! 

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  • Nativity superstars!

    Published 12/12/22

    Thank you to everyone who came to watch our nativity performance at the end of this week. It was so wonderful to see the children so happy and we are all so extremely proud of each and every one of them and their performance of The Angel Express.

    They are all stars in the making ⭐️

    #motivateeducatenurture

     

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