Miss Gobel’s class using flints and steels
Miss Gobel’s class showed real resilience and responsibility when lighting fires with flints and steels. It was a wet, windy day and it’s not an easy job in any weather.
Mr Baxter’s year 3 class enjoying marshmallows
Mr Baxter’s class showed responsibility when toasting marshmallows around the fire on a chilly afternoon. They were lovely!
Year 5 hot chocolate and levers
Year 5 enjoyed hot chocolate around the fire on a chilly January morning. They also learned a little about how levers can help us to move heavy weights.
Year 5 lighting fires
Year 5 are learning how to light their own fires, which needs a lot of responsibility. We started by lighting cotton wool using flints and steels. It was much harder than it looked and took real resilience. Everybody managed, which was great.
Year 2 toasting marshmallows
Year 2 showed responsibility and resilience when toasting marshmallows over a hot fire. They tasted good!
Year 3 in the woods
Year 3 enjoyed exploring the woods on a cold winter’s day. We found some signs that spring is coming though – bluebell shoots, daffodil shoots and hazel catkins.
Miss Powley’s class making magic wands
Miss Powley’s class had a lot of fun using peelers to make magic wands from willow twigs. We had all sorts of lengths, thicknesses and styles. One even had a unicorn hair and moon tear essence in it!
Chinese New Year
Kung Hei Fat Choi! This week, we have been exploring Chinese New Year and in particular focusing on the year of the rat. We shared a Chinese story called Lanterns in the Sky which explores how Chinese families celebrate new year with their families. We each made a clay rat to take home and even…
Animals around the world!
Today, we used a globe to locate different countries. The children each chose a selection of animals from our topic books that they would like to know more about. We then worked together to find out where the animal originates from and then find this location on the globe. Alfie was very eager to know…
Helping Harold
On Wednesday, Miss Sowden’s class went to a special outdoor classroom for a session all about the brain. We met Harold the giraffe and had to learn all about the brain, what it does and how it helps us. This helped us to be able to help out Harold who had a problem with one…