Over the last couple of weeks, Year 5 have been working together to create some fantastic collage Art, which is proudly being displayed in the school hall. The children began working in pairs to create colourful “doodles” using pastels and water colours and some black and white pieces for contrast. The children then formed groups, ripped up our art into strips and created collages by gluing them on large pieces of card. Next, we all Read more
This week was our final forest school and we had such a lovely day. We looked at the story ‘The King of tiny things’, about a little fairy who helps all minibeasts and creatures around the forest; he oiled a slug who had lost his slime, freed a caterpillar that was stuck under a plant pot and even made a new leg for a Daddy long legs! We decided that we would become Kings and Read more
This afternoon we have visited Kayden’s Garden. We looked around the garden to see what interesting things we could find. Then we created pictures in our planter using different coloured stones.
We have been looking after our butterflies for 5 weeks. We have made sure they have had lots of a food and a lovely safe home. Today, we have released our butterflies into Kaden’s garden. We were all very lucky and we were able to hold a butterfly. Then we watched them fly away. We will miss our butterflies!
We had we had another fantastic forest school this week, we haunted for minibeasts, checked our bug houses from last week to see if there had been any visitors to them. We made our favourite minibeast from items we found on the forest floor and did a fantastic job! while on our bug hunt, Miss Horrocks showed us a baby ladybird, it didn’t look anything like a ladybird, so we were very interested. When we Read more
This week we have been looking at the story ‘Mad about Minibeasts!’ And have had so much fun investigating different minibeasts. In forest school, we went on a minibeast hunt, checking to see if any had visited the bug hotels we had made the previous week and made our favourite minibeast from things we found on he forest floor. We labelled lots of minibeasts while practicing our writing skills, we then made some more bug Read more
In Reception, we have been looking after some caterpillars. We gave them lots of food and watched them grow. They grew really big! We then observed the caterpillars and watched them turn into a chrysalis. When we came into school this morning, we had lots of beautiful butterflies! We are going to look after our butterflies for a few days and then we will release them into Kaden’s Garden.
Year 4 Hawthorn, designed, planned and created their own Saxon homes using a variety of different resources. The children worked in groups to create the a sturdy home for the Anglo-Saxons to live in. Well done.
In Reception, we have been learning about ‘The Very Hungry Caterpillar’. We have learnt how to retell the story and the life cycle of a butterfly. During the story, the caterpillar eats lots of fruit. So we decided to taste test different fruits and see which ones we prefer. Once we had taste tested all of fruits, we started to write some adjectives describing how they tasted.
This afternoon, a group of children from Year 5 took part in the Great Science Share. We met with the other schools in the Arch Alliance over Zoom and each presented a Science investigation to each other which we followed and completed. The investigations that we did are: How does invisible ink work? How does the brightness of a bulb change when the voltage is increased/decreased in a circuit? How does the amount of sugar Read more