We have had such a busy time this term! We have continued to work hard to answer our key question ‘Are all stories true?’  looking at both real and imaginary stories, comparing and contrasting them and discovering how they are structured.

Near the beginning of the term we had great fun celebrating World Book week. We were extremely lucky to welcome a professional storyteller Alastair Daniel at the start of the week to introduce our key theme/text-Little Red Riding Hood. We learnt about lots of different versions of the story and had fun thinking up lots of different alternatives.

We did some fantastic writing in Drawing Club too!

In Maths we have been deepening our understanding of numbers to 10, practically investigating how many pairs of numbers can bond to make numbers up to 10. We have also been measuring height, length and time. We have also been discovering what different 3d shapes we can see and the properties they have.

We have been looking at the properties of materials in our understanding of the world and used stories such as Goldilocks and the three bears, The three billy goats gruff and the three pigs to develop our problem-solving and DT skills to create chairs for baby bears, build houses of straw that might be wolf proof and alternative bridges so that the goats could avoid the troll!

Science week this year was all about ‘Curiosity:What’s your question?’. We had so much fun developing our scientific skills. We had great fun completing a number of different practical workshops to answer the questions- ‘How do Bees help flowers?’  ‘How are animals similar and different?’ and ‘How do birds build their nests?’

We have noticed lots of changes in our outdoor environment and discovered Spring has well and truly sprung. We discovered visiting frogs in our pond had been busy laying lots of frog spawn. In less than a week, the tiny sample we borrowed to watch close up had changed from being little dots to real-life wriggly tadpoles!

What a pleasure it was to welcome our significant females into class it was so lovely to see the children excitedly showing them around the class environment, joining in with aerobics and Indoor curling.

We were very fortunate to visit polo farm for a multi-skills workshop organised by Christchurch University Sports education students. We had a fantastic time and would like to thank Mrs Wray for organising this!

As a thank you to all the significant females in our lives we visited a pop-up shop to buy them gifts for Mothering Sunday and made bespoke bags and cards in the style of Paul Klees’s ‘Heroic Roses’ using fabric paint and celery tied together which made fantastic rose templates. The printing was awesome!