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 dressed up in our pyjamas, brought in our cuddly toys and blankets and enjoyed listening to a range of stories read to us by Mrs Blench, Mrs McCoryn and Mrs Kent. We even had hot chocolate and cookies. Then Holly Class came in and read us their very own stories that they had created in class.

In the same week we were lucky to welcome author Tamara McFarlane and Gilbert Giggles who came in to deliver a story telling workshop. We learnt lots of facts s all about dinosaurs.

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 properties of materials in understanding of the world and used stories such as the 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 bear, 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 Adapt and change. We had so much fun developing our scientific skills. 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 form being little dots to real life wriggly tadpoles!

We had an afternoon of science activities visiting Holly and Hawthorn classes to learn about the importance of camouflage. We searched for different coloured caterpillars and discovered the most effective colour to remain hidden in out outdoor area.

In Hawthorn class we learnt about worms and how important they are to improve the soil for our gardens. We even made our very own wormeries so that we can see first hand at home how the worms will mix the soil and aerate it for our flowers and plants.

In our class we had a go at making rockets and testing them out and then investigating ways we could adapt them to make them fly further.

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 gymnastics..

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 in the style of Paul Klees’s ‘Heroic Roses’