Preston Primary School
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Kestrel Class
FLOURISH at home
Home learning is designed to sit alongside FLOURISH giving the children a choice of activity and how they wish to present their learning. We are always amazed at their wonderful pieces of work however elaborate or simple they are. What is even more amazing is the way the children present and share their their work with their peers. The confidence and the feeling of proudness they have answering questions and receiving praise.
Each term the children will choose one activity from the grid to complete.
Welcome to a new and exciting year in Kestrel class 2024/25
Science- sorting materials (alien soup!)
A super science visit to St Edmunds in Canterbury.
Dover castle visit.
Science- Changing states of matter.
Map reading
DT- Investigating existing products
Year 4 maths- Exploring area
Science: Gravity experiment
Science: jelly cube friction!
Kestrels 2023/24
Gravity experiment
Science- Air resistance
Music performance
Music instruments
Science- exploring pitch
Gymnastics
Maths- exploring division
Geography comparing continents
Literacy drama for our newspaper report writing
Geography- Map reading
Paintings in the style of Turner
Our brilliant finished bridges!
Bridge building parent workshop
Exploring cubed numbers in maths
Story Mountains
Geography & History: Outdoor learning, exploring villages before the industrialisation.
Our writing journey make element -scene setting.
2022/23
States of Matter - science exploring
Creating music
Geography map reading skills
Dover Castle Adventures
Gymnastics
Tapestry skills
History exploration on the Magna Carter
Following a loop in our music lessons
Our working model of the solar system. Ask us about what we learnt?
Our Solar System- outdoor learning
How far is it Mars? Learning binary code.
Science- Modelling the movement of the sun and moon.
Penguin Problems!
OAA and Geography
Last years adventures!
Science Experiment
Puzzle workshop.
Fractions!
Music Workshop- exploring different instruments
Visiting author day with Steve Clifford inspiring children to write!
Science in action - children being molecules
Exploring how sound travels
Exploring pitch
Term 2
Dover Transport Museum
Maidstone Museum. Bridge Engineers of the future!
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TERM 1
Playing with purpose! Exploring bridge construction.
Maidstone Museum
Welcome to Kestrel Class!
As part of our topic: ‘What would feel like to be in space?’ we have been investigating gravity and air-resistance. To do this the children created their own experiments. They were given a collection of basic objects and asked to create 3 different parachutes. Using their developing design and technology skills, they explore the different materials, created 3 different designs, created their designs and then tested them. Once they had tested their designs they evaluated how successful each product was, then finally made improvements.
Once they had created three different parachutes, each group devised a way to work out which one of the three performed the ‘best’.
Each group created their own scientific enquiry, making sure that their experiments were repeatable. To do this they made sure everything stayed the same for each experiment apart from one thing, the variable (the different parachutes. They then recorded their results and then drew a conclusion from their results.
Well done Kestrel Class!
Today Kestrels had a fantastic day of space exploration!
We were lucky enough to have two presentations from two fantastic astronomers from the Greenwich observatory. We learnt all about the moon and its relationship with the Earth and then a planetarium display that drew some amazing questions, I think we really challenged the astronomers.
The children were brilliant, so engaged and full of productive discussion.
Seeing as we were sat in front of a screen, it felt silly to take pictures but I have attached links so you can see what the children experienced! It was fantastic!
So lovely to hear the children loved the day 
I just wanted to let you know how excited Thomas was when he came out of school this afternoon. He absolutely loves science and (at the moment), his favourite subject is space, he just loves it and one of his favourite books is about the universe.
He was absolutely full of it the entire journey home and this has furthered his love of the subject to the point where he already wants to go on to study it further.
Thank you so much
Mark Huttley
Peter Thorpe inspired art. Please click on the link to find out more about the artist.
DT- skills
The children have been developing their DT skills in order to apply when they come to make their space buggy. Drilling, sawing and hammering
DT Day
The skills the children had learnt in their DT lessons this term were put to good use when building their very own space buggy. The children worked in groups to design, make and evaluate their buggy and from the end results they all did a fabulous job!
TERM 4
The children have been reading the story War Horse and have been inspired by their studies of the Bayeux Tapestry to create their own tapestry that tell the story of the War Horse. They used variety of stitches, which were all newly learnt, to create masterpieces.
Term 4 Exploring pulleys and leavers
Term 5: Science Observations and fair testing
Maths: Fractions as decimals
3D shape work
Our 'make ' element for our writing journey that uses characterisation.
How do you build an aqueduct like the Romans ?
Our doorway with our AMAZING shields !!
Science outdoors!
