The children have had a fantastic term 4 full of exciting learning opportunities including making pancakes and a trip to Nightingale Valley to look for signs of spring and so much more, which you can read about below!

Our ‘wow day’ to introduce our focus book began with the children solving a riddle, which led them to the chicken coop in the junior school field. Inside the nest boxes the children were very surprised and delighted to find the book ‘Rosie’s Walk’ along with several freshly laid eggs! The children took the eggs back to the classroom and made delicious scrambled eggs, which they ate with some yummy wholemeal toast.

For World Book Day the children came to school dressed either in their pyjamas or dressed as their favourite book character. During the day children snuggled up and read together, explored story sacks, became authors of their own stories, made books and then later in the afternoon, all of the children created fantastic potato book characters.

The children proved what fantastic artists they are, with an eye for detail, when they drew portraits of their mummies and grannies and painted a picture of daffodils for their mother and grannies day cards. We invited mummies and grannies in to school to undertake activities with the children, which included planting seeds, going on a nature hunt, painting flowers, collages and ended with the children performing the song Lovely Day.

During Science Week the children explored 4 different types of apple using their senses of sight, touch, smell and taste. They put the apple cores in bags and noted how the cores of the different types of apple changed over time: after two days, after seven days and after fourteen days. The children also explored which objects a magnet attracts or repels and why this is and observed the reaction when they mixed bicarbonate of soda with vinegar, which was very exciting!

This terms Tinkering Tuesday focused on packaging to solve a problem. The problem was that the Easter Bunny kept dropping his eggs and every time he dropped them they broke! The children proved what great designers and engineers they are becoming when they worked in teams to create protective packaging for an egg so that if dropped it wouldn’t break. To test their packaging the children climbed a ladder and dropped their packaged egg from a great height. We had some very successful packaging with very few eggs breaking.

The children have been learning Easter, we had a visit from the local vicar and in an assembly the children did a fantastic job of performing the Hot Cross Bunny song complete with Makaton signing. The children also wrote letters to the Easter Bunny, engaged in lots of creative Easter and spring themed activities, and finished the term with an egg hunt!