Festival of Nature

Mrs Joseph’s class and Mrs. Patton’s class went to the Festival of Nature today .We learned about gorillas, also smoke and lasers to help us learn how light travels .We made origami animals If you would like to go where we went today it is open on Saturday 18^th June and Sunday 19^th June

By Amelianya and Kamal

Space - the final frontier

Last week, the children in Y4/5 were imagining what it would be like to travel in space. Like all good Captains, using information obtained through their research, they wrote their captain's logs. Are there some astronauts of the future living in Fishponds? I have been very impressed with what I read. Here are some snippets from a couple of excellent pieces of writing:

Captain’s Log Dean

Stardate-627.4

We have landed on Mars. One of my crew members has suffered from space sickness, however he is recovering. At 0800 hours we will be going out to collect rock samples with the Mars Rover 2.0, it’s basically the Moon Rover but made for Mars’ terrain. Yesterday we had one of the insects escape from the greenhouse. Luckily it wasn’t that important because we had hundreds of other insects just like it.
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Stardate-631.4
Phew, mission accomplished.
We’re back at base now, packing up to go back to Earth. We’ve spent four or five long days on Mars now, but it was fun.
Speaking of fun, I actually caught that bug escapee last night; it was hiding under the Mars Rover.
Soon tourists will be able to land on Mars because of our mission.

Captain’s log Belinda

Stardate: 04102000.412

It’s the fourth day on Mars, the red planet. We’re searching for other life-forms. We saw some plants and little creatures; it could be insects and think there might be life on Mars. It could be the next planet for humans to live on but the only problem is that we live on oxygen and we still don’t know. Earlier this day Hannah, one of the crew members injured herself on a Martian rock. Then I and Rachel (the other crew member) took Hannah in the space shuttle to give her first aid.

Later we checked the rock because it looked different from the others. When looked closer we saw that it was a fossil.

But why would a fossil be on Mars?! And it’s a bit confusing because no one’s been on Mars before we came and surely I bet no alien came to Earth to take a fossil. So this seems to be very interesting. Wonder what will happen next?

Day 6 Today is our last day on the beautiful but boiling red planet, Mars. We might visit Mars again in 2020 or 21 and now we hope that we get back to Earth safely, taking all the pictures and the stuff we collected. Mission Accomplished!

Reversible and Irreversible changes

Year 6 have been learning about reversible and irreversible changes. Here is an activity they have worked on. See what you can find out in this activity.

The Bristol Dinosaur Project

Over the last two days Ed Drewitt from the Bristol Dinosaur Project has been spending time in each class exploring fossils with the children. He told us all about Bristol's very own dinosaur, the Thecodontosaurus. We were able to handle real fossils and learn about where they came from. We all had a fascinating time and have lots more questions to ask. If you want to find out more about our dinosaur, click on the link: http://www.bristoldinosaur.com/

New Animals Found!

Years 3 and 4 had some homework to do over the half term - to find out information about animals and their habitats as well as creating a new animal of their own (see previous blog). Eddy, Rochelle, Abigayle and Lewis have created some of their own. What do you think of them?

Making strange animals

The Middle Primary have been learning about animals and their habitats. This week they have been researching and creating interesting animals on a website called switchzoo.com. As homework over the half term break they have been asked to research animals and their habitats. There is plenty on information about it on the woodlands-school website. The children also need to create their own made up animal. If they, or any of you, want to create a strange animal like the 'zeb-ger-dog-nocerous' in the picture above then just have a go on switchzoo.com.

Little Chick Diary

It was Class Y3/4J's turn this afternoon to have the newly hatched chicks. Everyone was very excited and decided to write or draw descriptions about them in their science books. Abigayle wrote a diary entry. I think it's fabulous!:

My Chick Diary

Wednesday 12th May: it is my first day alive. I am loving life!
Thursday morning: I had a late night because I was cracking lots of
shells with my beak. Lots of children saw me.
Friday: I heard lots of people singing.
Saturday, Sunday: We were lonely.
Monday, Tuesday: I got flight feathers
Wednesday, Thursday: Went into classes; was curious
Friday: going to leave St Joe's

Well done, Abby.