Leopards@taddy

 Over the last few weeks, we've been on a mission to make Blackberry jam. We started by going on a walk around Taddington (led by the locals) to collect the Blackberries. The children worked so well together as a team that they were very fruitful. The children decided that whilst we were walking, it would be a good idea to take some bin bags and do a spot of letter picking at the same time, this proved to be less fruitful, which we were delighted about. On our return, we froze the berries, ready for the next week. The following week, we made the jam. The children split into 3 groups and rotated around the different activities. As a collective they managed to; split the wood using a bill hook and mallet ready to use for kindling, collect birch bark to start the fire, light the fire, maintain the fire. They also, prepared the Blackberries, added the other ingredients to the mixture and cooked the jam on the fire. The jam was then left to cool and transferred into jars for this week.

 Yesterday afternoon we were investigating the effects of friction on different surfaces. We tested a variety of surfaces and recorded how well the tub moved on them. Here we are in the middle of our investigation. We will let you know what we find out 

 Today as the entry point for our new topic we began to design rockets to take supplies to the International Space Station. We only had a few things we could use to make our rockets and they had to transport vital supplies from Earth to the ISS. We have had a really fun day researching, designing and making the rockets and are hoping that tomorrow we will be able to launch them and send the men and women on the ISS their supplies.