abingdon.org.uk/prep As part of their topic on Earth and Space, Year 5 have been studying the moon's eight phases. They created ‘living’ models of how the Moon and Earth rotate and revolve by acting these movements out. Then, they recreated the moon phases with oreos(!), thinking carefully about how their diagrams would be impacted by which side they placed the sun. Well done Year 5. Who dunnit? 27 Abingdon Prep Science is sweet Showcasing our progress It was a particularly exciting start to a January day when Pre-Prep invited their families into school to showcase their work. It was great to be able to share the progress, hard work and learning through fun, along with a few tasty home made biscuits too! Well done Pre-Prep, keep up the good work. In a wonderful twist of whodunnit, our Year 6 had to solve who might have ‘kidnapped’ Craig from his Head’s conference at the imaginary Inkwell Manor. A pen was dropped at the scene but could Year 6 work out, from their Chromatography lesson, who was responsible? In their lesson, Year 6 used water as a solvent to separate the different colours present in the ink and record the different distances each travelled on some blotting paper. Each ink had a distinctive pattern - this enabled Year 6 to discover the culprit and release Craig from captivity! The Easter Bunny visits school Children in the Pre-Prep were very egg-cited when they received a surprise visit from the Easter Bunny who wanted to wish them all a ‘Hoppy Easter’. Sporting Easter themed hats and grasping baskets, the children had great fun hunting around the play area to see what Easter surprises had been left.
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