Early Years went on a walk to the cemetery to help Clive, one of the volunteers, plant crocus bulbs.
The children had lots of fun making holes, planting the bulbs and getting a bit messy. Clive also took the children on a walk around the forest area of the cemetery and taught them all about the different trees and leaves.
Congratulations to Mrs Ekers for working so hard to raise the profile of science. As a result of her, the teachers and children’s hard work Fishergate School has been awarded the Silver Quality Mark.
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Early Years have had great fun exploring with our new projector. Lots of shadow puppets, animal impressions and transient art displays.
Fishergate students are such keen scientists – even outside of school they love to extend their learning! If you carry out some exciting scientific enquiries at home, at the weekend or in the school holidays, you can ask Mrs Ekers if you can share your discoveries here on our website.
This pupil learned to use two different sorts of pipette to carefully and accurately measure liquids when they carried out a chemistry experiment at the Centre for Life in Newcastle – and made a rainbow! The “universal indicator” shows how acid or alkali a solution is by changing colour.
The children love taking their learning outside, whatever the weather! Look at all these happy, confident and engaged children directing their own learning. The forest helps us learn so much about the world and our local environment!
Some children in early years were experimenting with circuits this week.
They showed great teamwork, concentration and problem solving whilst learning about the different parts and functions of a simple circuit.
A huge thank you must be said for ‘Friends of Fishergate,’ for funding our Science Day run by Abbie and Frankie from ‘Love Science’. The whole school was involved in quick paced ‘wow’ science workshops throughout the day from…
Forest school today provided a rich learning experience for one boy. A worm was discovered, carefully picked up and cared for, for most of our morning outside.
A slug was found too! Endless open ended play outdoors!! Perfect!!
Children in Early Years love taking their learning into the forest. This week, some children made human scales to see who was heaviest, whilst others focused their attention on creating a scarecrow to keep the birds away from our mud mountains.
