Year 5 visited the Botanical Gardens as part of their Topic work this term. They explored the Tropical house, Subtropical house and Mediterranean glasshouse. They learnt about where tropical rainforests were situated, the animals that inhabit them and why they were so endangered. They discovered how rainforest plants grow and adapt to their unique environment. Also, discovered which rainforest plants we eat and which we wear. They had the opportunity to handle live animals, this included stick insect, bearded dragon and Giant African Land Snail.
This week we have been reading the story Aliens Love Underpants, singing a song about men in a flying saucer and we introduced our ‘Create an Alien’ family project.
We have already had two family projects in and we are looking forward to seeing the more in a few weeks time.
We have also welcomed some new children to our Nursery. The children already here have been trying hard to help them settle and make new friends.
This half term we are looking at Islam. Our work this week was to design a leaflet describing how valuable the Mosque is to the wider community. We discussed some of the services the Mosque offers to the local residents.
This week we have been reading the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’. The children really enjoyed reading this book and creating story maps and writing all about it.
We spoke about our favourite fruits and tasted some! We tried pineapple and avocado and mango!
Some of the children created their own story maps!
This week saw the return of St. Clement’s Stay and Play. The children enjoyed playing, learning and exploring together. Song time was enjoyed by all, including Mr Burton. New children joined us this week and we hope to see them again.
For further details please see Miss Akers or come along, Wednesdays, 9am – 10am, in the school hall.
Last Friday, Year 5 spent the day at Woodlands Adventure. Children had the opportunity to experience a true outdoor setting. They were able to face new challenges and develop new skills. This, in turn, has led to increased self-confidence, motivation and engagement back in the classroom.
Year 5 took part in a range of activities which included:
Assault course
Zipwire
Archery
Paddlesport
These activities encouraged them to develop on their social skills, team building, motivation, courage and resilience.
Last Thursday in Year 2 we started the session by sitting in a circle on chairs. We then called our minds so that we were ready to learn.
We then showed a BBC clip of an introduction to life cycles. This included images of eggs, bees, seedlings growing, eggs hatching etc. We then discussed what life cycles are and how things grow and change from a baby to an adult.
Last Thursday in Year 1 we began by calming our minds down and preparing our minds to begin learning.
In tell me or show me, the children were shown a clip of spawn growing to frogs, which showed frogspawn and later a frog that the children find. The children were asked how the frogspawn turned into battle frog? What happens and in what order?
In Year 1 in Science, we have planted our very own sunflowers. We have learnt about what things we need to help plants grow healthily. We know that plants and flowers need sunlight, warmth, water and care to help it grow the best it can.
We are going to take it home as part of our home school project and record the progress of the growth.
Who’s sunflower is going to be the tallest?
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