This week Year 5 spent our science lessons worm charming and creating several class wormeries.

At the start of Wednesday morning the class headed outside to have a go at worm charming. For those of you who don’t know what worm charming is, it is the use of a range of techniques to attract worms out of the ground. We tried several techniques including making different sounds on the ground (the vibrations apparently make the worms head to the surface) and pouring soapy water on the ground (the soap is meant to irritate the worms skin and bring them up).

Having collected our worms we had to now build somewhere for them to live. Each table had collected enough worms to build a wormery each, so as a class we built 5 wormeries.  To create our wormeries we had to put 3 different layers of soil type into old sweet jars and a fish-tank, before adding some carrot peels and potato skins for food.

We will continue to care for and check on our worms each week, as we learn more about habitats and life cycles.

After a long walk in the cold wind and sunshine, Green class arrived at Tesco, Aston. We were met by the Community Champion Mark who showed us upstairs into the training room to begin our Farm to Fork trail.  Our morning started with a  health and safety talk and then we split into two groups to explore the store. One group headed off to the bakery and the other to the fish and cheese counters.

We learnt lots of interesting information about the food in each department and also we got to sample lots of cheeses, fruits and tiger bread. Green class found out that our fruit and vegetables comes in a rainbow of colours and  from a wide range of countries around the world, even as far away as Guatemala!

Have a look at some of the many pictures from our day. Do you think we had fun?

Our topic this term is Memory Box

We have been looking at photos of ourselves from when we were really little and all the children have been really enjoying it.

We organised a Teddy Bear’s Tea Party and the children had a great time.  We made our  own sandwiches and cupcakes for the picnic. we then joined nursery in the playground for games and then had our super picnic!

As part of our Playlist topic we are studying art inspired by music. We listened to four pieces of music and discussed how it made us feel and the pictures it put in our minds. We chose different materials to create shapes and patterns inspired by the music.

Wow! Look at reading club working really hard to improve their comprehension skills! Every morning, they come to school at 8.30am to practise their reading with Mrs Akhtar.

Year 2 have a new book corner. We love selecting new books to read and recommend to our friends. Sometimes we go into the book corner to practise our storytelling. We use use the puppets and props to help us.

In class we have been reading The Story of Pirate Tom. We have been retelling the story using actions. We have been creating our own story maps to help us to remember the sequence of the story. If you come up to one of us we will tell you the story.

Well done Zariah.

Darin is using the story map to help him retell the story.

Well done Ramesah

Retelling the story using actions.

On Tuesday, Year 6 went on a trip to the Coventry Museum. When we arrived at our location, we entered the museum which was filled with amazing facts about World War Two. We saw actual artefacts which were used during Word War Two and luckily a selection of our class members were given the opportunity to try some of the uniforms on and use some of the equipments. We were also fortunate enough to visit a air raid shelter which was located in the museum, which was used during the Blitz in World War Two. The children found this experience especially exciting as it helped them to understand what some of the children during WWII went through.

In addition to this, Year 6 were given the opportunity to explore transport which was used during WWII and recieved a talk by one of the museum staff on the evacuee experience of children during World War Two. Some children were given the opportunity to dress up in actual World War Two clothes and wore additional accessories which an evacuee would have used during this period (for example gas masks, name tags, etc).

Overall the children thoroughly enjoyed their visit and here are some pictures that captured their experience.

On Thursday 21^st April the whole school celebrated the Queen’s 90^th Birthday. We all wore red, white and blue. We carefully made kites and enjoyed colouring in flags and bunting. We looked at the Queens reign in 1980’s, we loved looking at and described toys from that decade.

We drew pictures of the Queen from 1980’s and drew pictures of Princess Diana at her wedding in 1981.

We enjoyed making cheese and jam sandwiches with Mrs Ali.

We had lots of fun eating our food outside for the street party.

We even had time to do circus skills with Stu.