Wow what a busy term! We have thoroughly enjoyed continuing our topic ‘Is a pirate’s life for me?’ and particularly loved meeting Captain Raggybeard. Captain Raggybeard showed us his shell phone, told us stories about Shelly the mermaid and took us on a treasure hunt.

In DT, we have continued the pirate theme and designed and made our own pirate ships using recycled materials. Once they were built, we tested them to see if they would float and completed our critique. It was lovely having our significant females into class to help us with our ship building.

In literacy, we have been focussing on the story ‘The Pirate Mums’. We began by retelling the story, then innovated it by creating our own characters and made changes to some of the key events.  Here you can see some of our puppet characters and final writing outcomes.

We have continued to be amazing geographers this term and have loved learning about the seven continents and five oceans. We have located the continents and oceans using globes and atlases, then had a go at creating our own world map.

The weather has been brighter this term so we have managed to get outside for some forest school sessions. We have demonstrated excellent teamwork in all lessons, especially when putting up shelters and making bug homes.

Finally in maths we have been developing our understanding of mass and capacity. We have used the balance scales to find and compare mass, using the language heavier and lighter. We have used measuring cylinders to find and compare volume, using the language full, empty, nearly full and nearly empty.