Today we took part in a rock pool experience. We learnt lots of interesting facts about sea creatures, beaches and how we can better take care of marine life. We first had a talk and then we were able to hold lots of the creatures. This included crabs, starfish and anemones. We all had a fantastic time!
Today, we had some special visitors come into school to see us. We have been learning about mini beasts and different types of animals. So, we had some animals come to see us! It was very exciting and we got to see lots of different animals. Some of us were a little bit nervous at first, but we all gave them a stroke and some of us held the animals. We enjoyed watching the animals Read more
Today, we had some surprise visitors in school to visit Reception! We were all very brave; we held a bearded dragon named Boris, a tortoise called Bentley, a monitor lizard called Buzz, lots of bugs and even a snake named Woody! Some of us were a bit nervous at first, but we still gave them a stroke and were so excited to learn about all of the creatures. We also got to feed some of Read more
As part of our topic this half term we have been learning about James Lind and his discovery of how vitamin C cures scurvy. This afternoon we tasted different fruits and rated them from those that had the least vitamin C to those that had the most vitamin C based on how bitter and sour they tasted. The fruits we tried were: strawberries lemons oranges limes raspberries
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