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We had a fantastic trip to Hornby’s Hobbies WonderWorks, which linked perfectly to STEAM Week and our topic “Playing: Past and Present.”
We had the opportunity to play with Scalextric and explore lots of other amazing toys made by Hornby, including model trains and cars. We loved seeing how these toys work and noticing all the tiny details that make them look so realistic.
During our visit, we also learnt how toys have changed over time and how design and technology help make them move. We spotted gears, tracks, wheels and motors, and started to understand how these parts help toys function. It was exciting to see how ideas from the past have inspired the toys we still enjoy today.
We had such a fun, hands-on day and came back to school full of ideas and excitement!
Wow! What an amazing workshop we had with the School of Noise. We learned all about different parts of sound, including pitch, volume and tempo. We explored how sounds can be high or low, loud or quiet, and fast or slow.
We were then shown some very unusual and exciting instruments. We saw a theremin being played — an instrument you don’t even have to touch to make music! We were also amazed to discover that even vegetables can be turned into instruments and make different sounds.
We had the best time listening, experimenting and discovering just how many different ways sound can be made. It was such a fun and memorable experience!
We worked really hard during Shadow Hour to create our very own toilet roll torch shadows. First, we drew a small picture onto clear tape and carefully attached it to the end of our decorated toilet roll tubes. Then came the exciting part!
Using torches, we shone light through our tubes and projected our drawings onto the wall. It was amazing to see our tiny pictures turn into big shadows! We were very sensible when using the torches and took turns to share our creations with our friends.
We had so much fun exploring light and shadow and loved seeing our designs come to life in such a creative way.
Our project for STEAM Week is all about puppets, and we have absolutely loved it! We enjoyed watching different types of puppet shows, including shadow puppets, hand puppets and marionettes. It was so exciting to see how each type of puppet moves in a different way.
After that, we had the chance to explore puppets ourselves and put on our own puppet shows! We had so much fun giving our puppets silly voices, dramatic voices and even whispery voices, and making them move in funny and creative ways.
We have now designed our very own puppets and can’t wait to start making them on Thursday.
Parents and carers are very welcome to come in and help us on Thursday between 1pm and 3pm — we’d love to see you there!
We took part in Hour of Code and became real-life programmers! We used a computing game called Rodocodo, where we learnt how to program movement, rotation, and grabbing to complete different challenges.
We had to think really carefully about the instructions we gave. If something didn’t work, we didn’t give up — we debugged our code, fixed our mistakes, and tried again. It felt amazing when our character finally did exactly what we told it to do!
We showed brilliant problem-solving, perseverance, and logical thinking skills. Some of the challenges were tricky, but we kept going and helped each other like a team of expert coders.
We were very lucky to have a visit from Dr Hollie Burrell-Saward, who came to teach us all about microbes. We learnt about different types of germs, including bacteria and viruses, and how they can spread from person to person.
We took part in a fun experiment using special “glow” cream on our hands to see how quickly germs can spread. After that, we washed our hands carefully and checked them under a special light. If our hands were still glowing, it meant we hadn’t washed all the germs away!
It was so interesting to see how important it is to wash our hands properly, and we had lots of fun learning how to keep ourselves healthy.
We really enjoyed our emotional regulation workshop and our special Come Dine With Me session with our grown-ups. During the workshop, we learnt different strategies to help us understand and manage our feelings. We practised calming techniques like playing with playdough, blowing bubbles, making breathing octopuses, and doing mindfulness colouring.
These activities help us slow down our bodies and minds when we feel overwhelmed, cross, worried or over-excited. Learning how to manage our emotions is an important skill because it helps us focus on our learning, build friendships, and feel safe and confident in school. We are beginning to understand that all feelings are okay — it’s what we do with those feelings that matters.
We loved sharing these strategies with our grown-ups and showing them how we use them in school. Afterwards, we proudly showed them where we eat our lunch and how lunchtime works, including where our food comes from. It was such a lovely experience to learn and share together.
This week in Child-Initiated Play, our theme has been “I Like to Move It, Move It!” and we’ve been exploring transport, people and places.
We loved developing our play across the tables, using our ideas to create roads, towns and journeys. We worked together to figure out how to make bridges, tested different ways for vehicles to travel, and thought carefully about what we could add to cars to make them even better.
There was lots of teamwork, problem-solving and imaginative play as we shared ideas and built on each other’s thinking. It was great to see how our play grew and changed as we explored movement and travel in so many different ways!
STEAM Week at Ramsgate Arts – Week Beginning 2nd February
We are very excited to share that during the week beginning Monday 2nd February, Ramsgate Arts Primary School will be celebrating a whole-school STEAM Week.
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. This special week is designed to bring learning to life by combining creativity, problem-solving and real-world thinking across these subject areas.
Throughout the week, children will be completely off their normal timetable and immersed in a range of exciting projects, workshops and trips. These experiences are carefully planned to enrich their learning, spark curiosity and encourage collaboration, creativity and resilience – all key values at Ramsgate Arts.
As part of STEAM Week, we will also be holding a Number Day, where children will work in groups and move around different classrooms taking part in a variety of fun and challenging maths activities. This will give pupils the opportunity to apply their mathematical thinking in new and engaging ways.
It promises to be a fantastic and inspiring week for all our children, so please keep an eye on the class blogs for updates, photos and stories about what they have been getting up to.
Parent Workshop Invitations
We are delighted to invite parents and carers to come into school to support some of our exciting STEAM workshops during the week. You are very welcome to stay for the whole session or pop in whenever you are able.
Date and times:
Thursday 5th Feb 2026- join us to support puppet making between 1 and 3pm on Thursday 5th Feb
Thank you, as always, for your continued support. We are really looking forward to sharing this exciting week with our school community!