Hampton Hill is 50 years old!

Enviro Team this week

We all have a turn at being the 'Enviro team' for a week at our school. This week was our turn!

We tidied up the outside of our plastic bottle greenhouse, planted tomatoes, made seed pottles out of newspaper, sowed pumpkin, sweet pea, and sunflower seeds.












We also weeded the vege garden so it looked really tidy for the 50th celebrations this coming weekend.

Our new Bush Track

A work in progress but huge thanks to everyone who gave up their Saturday morning to come along to a working bee developing a bush track along our "out of bounds" bank.
They made awesome progress - so exciting!

Liquid Lab - Discovery

'Qu' is the sound this week so we had a Liquid Lab!

First we had a dish with oil in it. Then we put drops of coloured water in (using the pipettes). It was fun watching the blobs form - and mixing the colours.

Next we added drops of coloured white vinegar.

Great fizzing happened when we shook baking soda over the top!








And to add more fun, we mixed in some coloured dishwash soap. - A real liquid lab!

Circuits

We've been discovering electric circuits this week. Brain Box sets are a wonderful way to do this. Lots of experimenting and investigating!

And then the following day we used two different types of playdough to make 'squishy circuits'. The Green play dough was made with a lot of salt, giving it low resistance, and the yellow one was made with sugar, giving it high resistance. Here is a website showing you a short TED talk about it.

Recipes here -

Mrs Pearl's "leaving song"

Well, after 21 years, Mrs Pearl has retired! She's finished the year early to spend some time with Mr Pearl travelling and visiting their grown-up daughters in the Northern Hemisphere.
Here are the words to our song we sang to her at her farewell assembly. It is to the tune of the final song of our Major Production.

It's going to be strange without her around the place - Miss her already!

So Long and Many Thanks!

We were sad to say goodby to Miss Kardhim today. She has been with us for the last 7 weeks training to be a teacher. We wish her well in the future and will miss her.

We also were sad to goodbye to Ollie. Ollie is a volunteer helper and has been with us every Friday this year. We'll still see him around as he is required next door but it wont be the same!
Many thanks Ollie - it's been fun!