Today, 4H explored the use of nature journals for recording their encounters with nature.
Among the plants we were drawing we found a number of small creatures including Alder leaf beetles.
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Trip to Leeds Beckett Graphic Design Department
On Wednesday, 4SH spent the day at Leeds Beckett Graphic Design Department. This was a result of the ‘Winds of Change’ project which the students, along with Mr Magnall, had been working on during the Spring term.
A final workshop, hosted by the students and their lecturers in their amazing art studio, resulted in making an eco-town out of recycled packaging, creating a backdrop/landscape for the town from a range of drawing materials and turning a collage into a print. The impromptu ‘exhibition’ at the end of our time in their studio, showcased the days creativity as well as their zine booklets, clay tiles and dream catchers.
A big thank you goes to 4SH for being artists, Mr Magnall for educating 4SH on how we can harness the wind to create energy and the students at LBU for designing workshops to support this learning. It was a fun, interactive and inspiring day.
Tree planting
Today we have planted some new trees. They are five Hazels, five Rowans and five Crab Apples. Pupils from year 3 and 4 are pictured here. Hopefully the trees will be taller than them by the time they move into secondary school!
Where does our electricity come from?
On Wednesday afternoons we have been following the topic “Winds of Change”. This week – which is Science Week – we had a look at how we generate electricity.
About two centuries ago, Michael Faraday discovered that if a magnet and a coil of wire moved passed each other an electric current was generated in the wire. We saw that if we shook a coil of wire with a magnet in the middle that a very small amount of electricity was made. By using a bigger coil or a stronger magnet or moving the magnet faster we could make more electricity. The next problem is, how do we make the magnet or coil move fast in order to make the electricity?
For the last hundred years we have burnt coal, oil, gas or biomass (dried plants) to heat water up turning it into steam which then turns big “fans” (the turbine) which turn a coil inside a circle of magnets.
We looked at how we can use the wind instead to turn the coil. We have been very fortunate to have some small wind turbines donated to us and we hope soon to have them set up in school to charge a battery, we will then use the electricity generated for other projects in the school garden.
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