Class Six

On Monday 5^th October Class 6 made the journey to Julian’s farm to think about Habitats.

We were lucky enough to meet up with Matt from the Devon Wildlife Trust who has spent several months surveying and assessing the quality of the water in the stream. We spent the morning taking samples of water and then counting the number of creatures present. Lots of creatures means healthy water.

In the afternoon we walked up to the Long Barrow on Warrior’s Moor. Although the barrow is pretty low now you can see that when it was built 5,000 years ago it was absolutely enormous. Andrew Guy has a small collection of flint tools found there although, as there is no flint in our area, these must have been traded with someone from a long way off.

 Our exciting new Radio Station project is up-and-running !!!

We've installed speakers across the school and our older children are taking the lead; broadcasting breakfast, break, lunch and after-school shows which are featuring our favourite music and thimgs like competitions and jokes.

In the coming weeks were going to start to introduce thngs like news items, jingles, adverts and interviews, and we're also going to be recording our own music.
Our first pod-cast won't be far away either !

As we get more confident we are going to start to involve younger children so that everyone in school can be part of this exciting new development.

Our Biggest sporting challenge of the year in school is our Ten Tors Challenge on Dartmoor.

After a lot of training over the year this eventually ends with a two day camping and walking event which involves covering a distance of as much as twenty five miles on the North Dartmoor section of the moor.

Training started last week when our new group of Year Six students visited the moor for the first time.
Weather conditions were very different for our two groups - with everything from driving rain and strong winds to glorious Autumn sunshine !
Both groups covered over ten miles on a mixture of paths and open moors which is a pretty impressive start.

We do loads of watersports in school - including things like kayaking, sailing and wake boarding.

Every Autumn Term everyone in Year Six has has a surf lesson each week, on a Friday afternoon which is a great way to end the week.
These photos show us on Crooklets beach in Bude last week where some of us started to stand up for the first time !!!

 The Rev. Hawker is a famous local vicar who preached at Morwenstow Church durng the Victorian Period. He was famous for inventing the "modern" harvest festival and for helping sailors who were shipwrecked on the shores of North Crnwall and Devon.
His hut is a short walk from the church along the cliff tops.
He used to sit in it and write poetry.

Our trip gave us the perfect opportunity to imagine what it must be like to be in a ship on stromy seas as it involved gale force winds and driving rain !!!

Having reached Hawker's Hut we headed for his church which was the perfect place to take refuge from the storm.

We had a wonderfully dramatic trip out - hopefully the next one will involve less waterproofs and much more sunshine !!

During the Bradworthy Arts Festival Andrea Downing organised a scarecrow competition, it was for all ages and there were many types.

The theme for the competition was underwater, just like the theme in the school exhibition.

There were many different underwater creatures and pirates were quite popular, no scarecrow was the same and quite a lot of them made us laugh.

Like a traditional scarecrow they were made out of straw and then dressed up, but in a fishy way.

The competition was judged by our year Six children and the winner was awarded a prize, just like in any other competition.

The winner of the competition was Sophie Hudson, her scarecrow was a mermaid with out a head so anyone who passed by could be a mermaid and it was a really clever idea because it let people get involved.

Her idea of everyone being a mermaid came from, when she was making the head but it didn’t turn out very well, so her dad said, why not just not do a head and do a sign saying; “anyone can be a mermaid”.

The prize was a trophy made out of glass, £25 which they generously gave to charity and a box of malteasters.

By Eve And Kaya

On Monday 27^th April Class Six and I went to Julian’s Farm to look at some rare habitats and to help the wildlife that was in this environment by building some boxes for them to nest in. It was really fun on the farm.

The first thing we did when we got there was dip our feet in disinfectant made from iodine and water. This was to make sure we didn’t infct the land with anything form outside. We started of with assembling some “habitat houses” which were for little mammals and birds. One of the bird boxes had metal on the front.

After this Year Six went on a habitat hunt. The first things we found were a couple of butterflies, a lizard, some frogs and lots of caterpillars.

We’re going to go back in a few weeks when the caterpillars have metamorphosised into rare butterflies called Marsh Fritillaries – you only find them on Culm Grass.

Finally we made our way back to the farm to have a late lunch and after this we went back to school.

I’ve learnt about where caterpillars live but my favourite part was assembling the boxes.

By Keiron

Our art exhibition has an "Underwater Wonder" theme this year so in Year Six we've been studying the oceans.

This took us down to some of the beaches near our school where some unusually low tides meant we could explore the wreck of the SS Belem which ran aground in 1917.
It also gave us the chance to look at some of the sea life which we've been thinking about in school.
Including the remains of a Fin Whale which washed ashore on Wanson Beach, near Bude, this winter.

This year's show was based on force which was perfect because we've been studying this in school. It was a great way of reinforcing the things we've been learning about and a lot of fun.

We've been learning about Newton's Laws of Motion in Class this January, and one of the things we've been trying to measure is the acceleration that is caused by Earth's Gravitational Field.

We used a ball which is spherical and an aerodynamic shape so that air resistance doesn't have much effect.

We dropped the ball from the top of our climbing wall which was the highest point we could get to.
(Edward is 5m above our Class floor and being looked after by Ritchie who's belaying him)
This meant that we had time to measure how long it took the ball to drop.
We dropped the ball lots of time so we could work out the average time on a spread sheet.

We realized that our reactions would have a big effect so we worked out how long they were in a separate test.

Acceleration is equal to the change in speed (whch went from zero to 0.7 m/s) divided by time.

We worked out that the acceleration caused by gravity is 10 m/s² which is pretty close to the real acceleration.

We do loads of cookery in Year Six.

As well as learnig about the sort of food s that we need to make us fit and healthy we also cook lots of different recipies.

You can probably see that we're not cooking that heathy a dish in this photos.

Chocolate Brownies are a great treat and anyway it's really important to have a balanced diet !!

We went through marshes, bogs, rivers, and up steep hills. There were lots of cows, sheep and ponies. It was really cold and it was raining heavily. It was also really foggy and in one place we could only see about 5 meters in front of us. We had to be concentrating on where we were walking. Some areas it looked safe to walk on but you could easily fall in really deep mud or a bog.

Dartmoor is really dangerous but we were with sir and he has lots of experience on Dartmoor.
We had to use a map and compass to find our way.

Dartmoor covers an area of 363 square miles and 240 square miles of this are granite.
The highest point on Dartmoor is "High Willhayes" which is 621 meters high.
All of the higher land is granite and you can see it sticking out at the top of the hills where the soil has been eroded. The rest of the granite is covered in quite a thin layer of soil called peat.

The granite in the background has been forming over millions of years, it is sticking coming out of the ground because the softer rock which was on top has eroded away.

The granite is water tight so a small river is flowing off it and down from the hill, the grass is very damp and there are lots of blanket bogs.

Climbing is a sport and an excellent exercise for your body. When we climb we learn how to tie a figure of 8 knot so we are safely tied to the rope.

We also have to learn to belay, do you know how?

All you do is to get the climbing rope and connect it to the carabineer and then connect it to the belay device, you take the hand that you are confident with then you take control with the other hand and feed the rope through as the climber climbs.

We have also learnt to put on a harness - you pull up the harness to your waist then you tighten the waist belt and then the leg loops until they are safe to climb with.

Climbing became a popular sport in the 1880s in England. In this picture there are people bouldering (climbing without a rope) at our school, they are trying to find new ways to climb to the top.

Surfing is one of the oldest practiced sports in history. People first surfed in ancient Western Polynesia ( a small island in the middle of the South Pacific Ocean ) about three thousand years ago. Unfortunately there is not a record of when stand up surfing originally became a sport.

When you surf you use a board that is usually made out of polystyrene foam and coated with layers of fibreglass cloth which makes it hard. But we used just foam board because if we bumped into each other it would hurt. That is why you use soft ones when you are learning.

Behind Jess and Sophie is Morwenstow Church it was built in the Norman era and extra parts were built on in the 13th, 15th and 16th centuries. We went to the church on a school trip to study local history because that was our topic.

Morwenstow was named after Saint Morwenna who was a local saint.

Outside the church there is a replica of a figure head of a ship called "The Caledonia" and inside the church there is the real figure which has been restored because if it's been under water for one hundred years it would rot.

Inside the church there are chairs that have ends that were made around 1575. There was also a big statue of Jesus and the cross with Mary.

R.S Hawker built this hut so that he could write his poetry whilst watching the brutal waves and the cliffs below him. He could also look out for any ships coming in. He made this hut out of driftwood that had washed up on the beach. Hawkers hut is walking distance from Morwenstow church were R.S Hawker was reverend.

Hawker was the vicar in the 1840s and is best known for two things:
He invented the Harvest Festival and also saved a lot of sailors when a ship called the Caledonian got wrecked on the beech near Morwenstow. The figure head form the ship is in the church.

Here we are at Hartland, at Hartland Quay we went for a walk by the side of the sea, as you see there is a hill on our left and then the hill drops away. This is because the sea has dug away at the hill and over the years it has gradually fallen down so the coast has come further inland.

There used to be a church on the hill, which is called St Catherine’s Tor, but it fell down because of the sea eroding the cliff.

In this photo sir has been teaching us about how mountains, canyons and rivers are created by building a mountain out of sand and watering it.

Mountains are created by the tectonic plates pushing together for millions of years which pushes the ground up higher and higher until they become high enough to be classified as a mountain (1000ft or 300m).

Canyons are created by the tectonic plates pulling apart for millions of years. On average a canyon should be at least 1mile or 5,280ft (1,809m) deep. The deepest canyon is devils peak on the Idaho side it is 8,043ft (2,452m) deep.

Rivers can be made in lots of different ways, for example in this picture rivers can be made by water flowing down a mountain. A river can be made by a spring (a spring is a where water comes out of the ground). After one of these two things happen the water goes into a stream which then joins together with other streams to turn into a tributary which then joins onto a river which gradually gets bigger and bigger until it goes into the ocean at a place that is called the river’s mouth.

All of these things make the land around us look the way that it is, and it’s changing all the time.

Eve is testing why the rain isn't salty because we’ve been doing the water cycle and rain comes from sea, this is because salt is a solid substance which has dissolved in water. Water isn’t a solid it’s a liquid so when it gets hot and evaporates it leaves behind the salt which is a solid. So the sea will always be salty, it would be impossible for it not to be, and rain is not.

A source is the start of the river. One type of source is a spring, where water comes from the ground.

The water sinks into the ground and gets trapped by impermeable rocks. It builds up and comes out.

There are different types of sources and another is where water falls on rocky ground and just runs.

After that the spring becomes a tributary which is a small stream which joins on to a river. There is usually more than one tributary, that can join a river.

When we went to Julian’s farm we learnt about culm. Culm is a really rare grass, and it is only found in a few places in the world.

We weren’t able to walk on it because it is so protected, we would damage it if we did. We were only allowed to walk on certain bits that were specially cut for us to walk through. Culm is a type of boggy grassland, which is home for endangered wildlife like The marsh fritillary butterfly.

The marsh fritillary is a large powerful butterfly with wings which are orange with black markings. Culm grass is its only home.

The water has formed an eddy (a place where it is turning in a circle) which has erroded the bank.

When the water enters the inlet it swirls around and around, making the inlet bigger, before exiting and fllowing the river downsteam.

If the inlet gets bigger and deeper it might take the river in a different direction.

You could see this really clearly by watchin the orange that we had thrown in to the river.

It's like when a river's meander turns into an okbow lake.

 The children in our class do loads of different sports -  as well as challenging things like climbing, kyaking and surfing we also do lots of traditional sports too.

This is Noah finishing in the top ten in a cross country race at Torrington.
We also play netball, football, hockey and rugby.
In the summer we play sports like vollyball, rounders, athletics and cricket.

In the harvest festival we sang five songs and Year Five read and “signed” a poem, the brass band performed two tunes and in between the songs Sir said a few words.

Harvest is a very important time of year, because it’s when farmers collect the food they’ve grown. Without this time of year we would all starve.

At the start the brass band played Pop Rock and Mini March to warm up. Then they played Plough to the End of the Row with the whole school singing behind them.

Before we started Sir said some things. The next song we sang was Cauliflowers Fluffy; KS1 sang the first verse and chorus on there own then the whole school joined in.

Next we sang Oats and Beans and Barley Grow; Year Three and Four sang it once through then the whole school did.

Then year five did a poem, called The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes, they did it again in sign language which everyone thought was very impressive.

After sir read out a quote by Robert Louis Stevenson. The quote was “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant” and the whole school sang Jolly Plough Boys which is a fast high song.

The last song we sang was Country Boy which is a very fast song, only Year Five and Six sang it. The ukuleles played the tune.

Before we finished Sir said a very long quote by a man called Kent Nurburn, who said that giving was like loving and withholding like withering, and everyone got a round of applause.

I think harvest went very well.

By Evie

This picture shows how dangerous the sea really is.

The cliff has been eroded by the sea and lost its strength and given up, and started to collapse

The big boulders get worn away and polished I to pebbles. The pebbles and get broken down and turned into sand.

The rock that had collapsed was called Sandstone.

The cliff was near where the mini buses were parked.

This photo with me in is about this V-shaped valley. It has been made by the weather eroding the land over thousands of years.
There is a river running through it down to the sea.

William

In the back of the picture the cliff is high. It drops down and rises back up and then
drops into the sea. The land has been eroded.

This valley isn’t like most river valleys because it is very flat bottomed. The river is very small and at one edge, rather than in the middle.

The river doesn’t even flow through all of the valley.

River valleys usually go straight out to sea but this one runs beside it.

The sea has eroded one of the walls which has collapsed.

It’s a bit of a mystery how it formed

At a place called Speaks Mill we discovered a water fall flowing from a river near by.
The waterfall looked stunning and had a river at the bottom which went into the sea. It was white and frothy at the bottom where it was flowing into the sea because of the water crashing onto the rocks!
At the top there was a pool of water and over hanging rocks which were created by the waterfall. It was fenced off for safety but we still had a great view of it.
Jasmine and Erin

Here we are at St Nectan’s church.

This is were we stopped and had lunch. It was a great place to stop and relax so were ready for the next half of the journey. We went through Speaks Mill and an ancient oak wood to get there.
The church had gargoyles on the roof.
Mr Sentance told us about St Nectan who was a Cornish saint who had his head cut off by pirates. This didn’t stop him from running away though. Everywhere his blood dropped bluebells grew.

Emily

On the beach we walked to a nice spot on the sandstone pebbles to sit and have a
half an hour chat about rocks and erosion and it got us all thinking.
We talked about a rock called Bear Rock - it's called that because its shaped
like a bear. Bear Rock would of been at the bottom of the sea 400 million years ago and it would have been flat. The beach was the best bit especially when
we got to explore round and look at rocks!
Jasmine and Erin

At the back of this picture we can see were the tectonic plates of the earth have been forced the rock upwards. About 250 million years ago this cliff face was part of a huge mountain, bigger than Mount Everest.
These rocks are a perfect example because they show how the rocks have been forced together in layers to make sedimentary rocks.
In time, the sea and the weather eroded the mountains, braking off bits of rock, and then the sea swallowing them up. This caused the mountain to shrink and disappear. We’re standing at the front where the cliff used to be.
You can follow the rocks that are sticking out of the sand back to the cliff. They used to be part of the cliff.
Phoebe

This is a picture of sedimentary rocks.Sedimentary rocks are rocks formed by sediments of sand or mud pressing together. The rocks are formed in layers because of new sediments settling on top of older sediments. This happened 400 million years ago when Devon was at the bottom of the sea. The sand and mud was washed into the sea from land where Wales is now.
These particular layers are diagonal, they are diagonal because the earth is made plates of rock floating on boiling magma / lava.
When two plates push together they create mountains so the earth rises diagonally.250 million years ago there were huge mountains here, you can see the mountain shape in the rock.
Theo

The Bencoolen

On the twenty first of October, two thousand and twelve, class six went to Bude as a day trip with Sir, Mr Sentence and Mrs Brown. We went there because we are studying shipwrecks in England and so we are learning about the Bencoolen. The Bencoolen was wrecked in Bude around one hundred and fifty years ago.

Firstly, to start the day off, we went to the Castle Museum in Bude. When we got there we had a quick glance round, then we found out facts about things we where interested in. Mr Sentence told us about how boats where taken over hills in Bude canal. They were taken over hills by using a tub boat and a conveyer belt, the boats would get attached to a chain and hauled up to the top of the hill.  In the museum, a lady told us about the Bencoolen, interesting facts that were not written down anywhere.

After, we walked to the canal and the lock gates. When we were at the Lock gates, we where lucky enough to see someone use the lock. They built lock gates to control the tide because a canal is a man-made river deep enough to get boats to and from the sea to the inland. They need to get boats inland because they need to unload important valuables from other countries. In the olden days, the only way to do that was by ship. That is why they need to control the tide.
The canal was mostly used to move sand inland to farms so that it could be used as a fertilizer.

Then we went to the seawall at Somerleiz beach to see where the Bencoolen got wrecked in the harbour. A seawall is a handmade wall in a harbour to stop the waves from destroying the harbour and the boats in it. We walked along the seawall and saw what a difference it actually makes to the sea conditions. As you cannot put a wall around all of it, there are still a couple of waves coming in from the other side. They could not have a wall all the way round because ships would not be able to get in and out of the harbour.

Then we went to the church and the graveyard. It was the day after the anniversary of the Bencoolen (the twentieth of October), the church had a memorial to remember the twenty six members of the crew who passed away on that day.  When we got to the church there were some flowers on their grave stone. A couple of the sailors were not buried there, but it is a mystery as to where the bodies went. Maybe they were buried where their family’s live or they got lost at sea. 
After seeing the grave stone we went into the church and Sir read us a poem. The poem was called ‘Sea Tongue’ and is a really good poem because it felt as if you were each thing or person in the storm.

We had a wonderful day out and we learnt loads. We all now know lots more facts about the Bencoolen and luckily the weather was dry, even if not sunny.

By Kira (Year Six)

The Weir.

A weir is a wall made across the river which has been built to control the flow of water in the river.
It looks like a waterfall because the water flows over the top and drops back down again quickly.
The weir on the River Torridge is used to stop it overflowing, and to control tidal water. It is not a natural wall it is artificial.
The depth of the water above the weir does not change with the tide.

Marie.

The Path of the River.

The path of the river Torridge goes in a meander. The Tarka trail that follows the river and used to be a railway track. Now the Tarka trail is a cycle path. There is a tunnel.
The Tarka trail starts at the Puffing Billy and goes to Bideford and further to the estuary at Instow and beyond.

Josh and Ross.

Lock Gates and a Flood Plain.

Lock Gates-
Lock gates are man-made gates that are there to control the canal. Lock gates are made from giant pieces of wood that can last a long time without rotting. Bude lock gates were obliterated by a huge storm in March 2009 and had to get rebuilt but these gates at Halsannery are sheltered from bad weather.

Flood Plains-
Flood plains are places (usually near a river) that flood easily due to lots of rain fall or snow melting. They can also be near a lake or pond and are usually marshy areas.

On the Torridge walk there were lots of different types of habitats such as, grassland, woodland, hedgerows, seawater and freshwater. All in the same scene we saw them. It was stunningly beautiful!
The Grassland
The grassland was quite boggy so you could sink easily. The wildlife that lives in the grassland is frogs, crickets, spiders, grasshoppers, worms, slow-worms and insects.
The Woodland
The woodland looked very dark, eerie and scary. The wildlife that lives there is spiders, birds, insects and foxes. Also you can find a variety of different mushrooms, many of them are poisonous!
The Hedgerows
The hedgerows are hedges alongside the path. They can have loads of wildlife living in them such as hedgehogs, dormice, butterflies, spiders, insects and bees. You can also find lots of different types of wild flowers such as foxgloves and hemlock.
The Freshwater
The freshwater is river, lake and stream . The wildlife that lives there is fish, snails and insects.
The Seawater
The seawater is the sea throughout the world. In some parts of the sea it is nice, blue and clear and in other parts it is murky and brown. The wildlife is dolphins, sharks, whales, seaweed and fish – although you don’t get dolphins, sharks and whales in the river Torridge.
The river has saltwater in it below the weir because it is tidal.

By Rachel & Rachel

Salt Marshes and the Tide.

The River Torridge is a tidal river. A Tidal river is a river which has a tide. The Tide makes the depth of the river to go up and down.
At low Tide you can see the mudflats and salt Marshes and at high Tide the mad flats are covered and only the plants show from
the Marshes. Ships can past through to the port at Bideford at a high Tide.

A Salt Marsh is a Marsh found in mudflats near the coast. Only certain plants can grow in a Salt Marsh as the air is salty and the water is salty.

Peter.

Rivers Joining the Torridge.

When one river river joins a larger river it is called a confluence.
When we were walking along the River Torridge, we saw this confluence happening where the River Yeo met the Torridge.
When the rivers meet you can see a different shade of water. It is not always a smaller river that it is joining.
The Taw joins the Torridge and they are both big rivers.

Kira.

Bideford Bridge.

The River Torridge is spanned at Bideford by a Long Bridge which was first built in the 13 century. It has 24 arches, all of different sizes.

The traditional explanation is that each arch was paid for by different people and richer people paid for bigger arches, there are no records to confirm this. Another theory is that the arches of the bridge
were built over large stones in the river with each stone being one support of the arch.

A local New Year's Eve tradition was to try to run across the Long Bridge, in the time it takes for the bells at nearby St. Mary's church to chime midnight.

In the 16th century Bideford was Britain's third largest port.

It is said that Sir Walter Raleigh landed the first shipment of tobacco in Bideford, although this
isn't true as Raleigh was not the first to bring tobacco to England.
In honour of Raleigh several Bideford roads and a hill have been named after him.

Today clay and wood are the min exports loaded onto boats at Bideford.

The quay was improved in 2006 to stop the quay from flooding.

David

The Railway.

The railway was a branch line which is now called the Tarka Trail named after the book Tarka the Otter.
It ran through Banstable, Instow, Bideford, Torrington and many more smaller places. This railway followed
the River Torridge.

Many railways were built by the Victorians to take passengers to the other side of the county. This railway also carried Mail, Newspapers, Food Supplies, Livestock, farming Supplies, Milk, Coal
Petrol, Cement and Clay.

The line opened 1851 and then reopened in 1854 due an exstension wich was added.

The line goes two different ways from Bideford, to Fremmington Harbour and Barnstaple where it used to join the main line. South of Bideford it went to Torrington and beyond. North of Barnstaple another branch line went to Exmoor and stopped there.

The railway closed in the 1970s due to money problems but luckily the Tarka Trail is now
a cycle path and walking area.

Peter and Maddy

Bideford Quay and Trade.

In the 16th century Bideford quay was the 3rd largest port in the country, It was mainly used for fishing especially cod and Irish wool and tobacco.
Because it was so busy it had to be extended three times, it got extended in 1663, 1692 and 1890.
Over the years the quay has had some major refurbishments, including a new water fountain.
The port is still regularly used today but for things like transporting pottery to Spain and still for fishing. It is a homeport for MS Oldenburg which regularly goes fourteen miles to Lundy Island and back.
Lundy is on the North Devon coastline and is in the Bristol Channel.
In the seventieth century and early eightieth century Ireland was a big market place for Bideford’s pottery, the reason for it was that Bideford had strong links with the Sheriff who was called Sir Richard Grenville. Sir Richards family was also part of Bideford’s history going back in the 1400. Ships' records show a lot of pottery going to Ireland it mainly went to Dublin but it was also sent to places like: Galway and Limerick. The other big markets were North America and also the Caribbean.

Marie and Josh

Lime Kilns and Farming.

Lime is widely used on farming land.
It is spread onto the fields where the soil is too acidic so that farmers can grow better crops.To make the lime uesful it has to go through the limekiln process.The lime comes from sedimentary rock that is quarried up.It is broken into smaller rock and then the air in the kiln is preheated. After that the rock is heated really hot then it cools and turns into a powder.
There are a lot of lime kilns on the river Torridge because there are lots of farms in North Devon. The farmers needed the lime.
Most of the lime came form South Wales. The coal which was used for the fires in the kilns came from South Wales too.

Imogen

The Estuary.

The estuary at Bideford was the main trade route. The estuary is were the River Torridge meets the sea.
It was the source of all of Bidefords food before roads and it is tidal.
One of the things that was imported was limestone from South Wales. The limestone gets baked in the many limekilns on the Torridge so that it can be used to fertilise farmers soil.

Eddie and Jake

The water cycle is evaporation, condensation, Precipitation and Collection.

Evaporation is when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns
it into vapor or steam. The water vapor or steam leaves the river, lake or ocean
and goes into the air.

Condensation is when Water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into
liquid, forming clouds. This is called condensation.
You can see the same sort of thing at home... pour a glass of cold water on a hot
day and watch what happens. Water forms on the outside of the glass. That water
somehow leak through the glass! It actually came from the air. Water vapor
in the warm air, turns back into liquid when it touches the cold glass.

Precipitation is another word for rain which falls from the clouds.

Collection is all about water running across the land in rivers and going back to the sea.
The whole cycle then starts again.

Anna.

This huge section of the waterfall plugened done into the river.
The small section of the waterfall flew back aganst itself.
Thousands of years ago,before the valley was eroded, the waterfall was part of a stream wich created the valley, as the years past the valley eroded leaving the waterfall there.
Peter.

Friday 1st May

We've been getting ready for our SATs in class recently.
A big part of this has involved work for our writing portfolios which is going to give us our end of year writing levels.
We've been working until 5.30pm two nights each week to get ready !!!

But don't think that we've been chained to our desks because we haven't.
We've been planning a big development of part of our school grounds so that we can use a part of our field all year round.
The best bit is that we're going to be incorporating sculptures and art as a part of this so that we end up with our own sculpture garden.

IGER

On Tuesday 13^th March we went to IGER near Okehampton, for a range of science experiments. We learnt how quickly animals can change, also what forces are needed to blast a rocket into space. We also learnt why temperatures and weather are different around the world and also why soil is so important.

Did you know that the weather can range throughout the world?...... and we learnt why. We learnt why the waves on beaches are rough during the day and calm at night, this happens because the lands trapped the heat from the sun and rises up during the day so this is what makes the waves this is called onshore. In the evening it is called offshore because all the heat that is took from the land is returned in the evening, as there is no heat during the evening there are no waves.

We also did an experiment to see the difference in heat from the sea and the land, by heating a lamp and attaching to pipes of water and to see what the levels are. The land won by far.

We did an experiment to show that hot atoms are move further apart and that cool atoms are more compact to try and conserve heat. We did this by having two trays one with cold ice in and one with room temperature rocks, then we blew bubbles and the cool tray brought the bubbles down quicker than the earth where they went up and then down.

We did an experiment that shows that cold air pulls in tight and hot air expands the air. The pictures here show that when the bottle and balloon are put into hot water and then the balloon blows up and then the bottle is put into cold water and the balloon shrinks. This is because of atoms and the way the act (up above).

Finally we learnt about the water cycle. The clouds sort of have the same pattern the as rain. From the stream and sea water which is  evaporated into the clouds where it cools and sticks together, this is called condensation, and when the clouds are 100% full they let all the water go which is called precipitation (rain). All the water keeps going around this is called the water cycle.

By Shannon and Lucy (Year Six)