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Art - Giacometti inspired tin foil sculptures

Bowling Fun at Lewisham Lanes 🎳

Science - Scientists in ACTION! We dissected a lamb's heart using a scalpel in order to look closely at the internal and external anatomy of the heart . We measured the height and the width of the heart. We also weighed the heart. We used the data to compare and discuss our findings. We used our previous knowledge to help us label the main parts of the heart. Did you know that a human heart can continue to beat outside our body (as long as our heart continues to receive oxygen)?

Science - What is the effect of exercise on our heart rate? We took part in a variety of physical activities such as balancing a tennis ball on a racket, jogging, squats, star jumps, skipping, agility run, dribbling a basketball, jumping over the hurdles and side steps. We learned how to identify our radial pulse (in the wrist) to help us to analyse how the heart rate accelerates and decelerates under different conditions. Finally, we used our measurements to plot them on a line graph.

Science - We made a heart model to represent the transfer of blood from the left atrium to the left ventricle and then on to the body.

Science - As part of our unit of learning, The Circulatory System, we have been extremely busy learning how to identify and name the main parts of the heart. We used play dough to create a 3D heart model which we then labelled using the scientific vocabulary.

World Book Week - We visited our local bookshop, Moon Lane Ink. We also had the opportunity to choose and own a book.

Religious Education - Celebrating our learning about Judaism with our guest speaker from the Catford &Bromley Synagogue. We enjoyed our learning opportunity of being able to ask questions, handle various artefacts and appreciate the diversity of our community.

Science - Does light travel in a straight line?

Our self portraits. Inspired by one of Britain’s foremost contemporary artists, Julien Opie, we created our own self portrait as part of our topic Identity.