We have continued our topic of “Are heroes worldwide” and this term we have focussed a lot on real life heroes.  

We were lucky to have a few visitors come and visit us and tell us about their jobs. 

We had PC Frost come and visit us to share what he does.  The class learnt all about what he does and got to try on his police hat and sit in his police car.  The Police are clearly heroes to us!

Mrs Raynor came in from the Fire brigade and bought in a fire engine.  The class had so many questions and the highlight was being able to turn on and off the hose pipes and spray water high in the air.

We also had an amazing visit from Doctor Cartledge who talked to the class about her role as a real life hero and bought in lots of his equipment for the class to look at and try out! Not only did we have a doctor but Allyssa’s Mum is a vet and she came in and told us how to take care of our pets.  We loved using bandages and fixing some teddy bears! Finally, Mrs Tutani-Wason came and talked to us about life in Zimbabwe and she told us African stories and we got to play musical instruments and sing songs in Shona.

In literacy, we created our own superhero story with an evil villain! We loved the book “Supertato” and had a fabulous workshop where we got to make our own potato superhero!  We explored the use of adjectives and adverbs and used these when writing our own story about vegetable superheroes!  We have ended this term writing about the book Traction Man and made our own comic books.

Even though the weather has not always been great, we managed to get into the Forest School area. We have had great making our own superheroes using natural materials.  We also measured sticks and put them in height order.

In history we have learnt about many real life heroes like Malala Yousafzai, Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges and Florence Nightingale.  

n PE we have had coaches teach us tennis and we have had an amazing time.  Tennis has become a very popular sport in our class.  We also improved out football skills with Mrs Baldwin.

In maths we have worked on multiplication and division and are finishing off the term learning about mass, temperature and capacity. We have loved the practical side of this unit of learning.

In art we have been learning about pop art and the artist Roy Lichtenstein. We explored primary colours and we then created our own pop art images using collage. We are really proud of the work we have made. 

This term we have taken part in some fabulous events.  During Science week, we made bug hotels, a wormery and we looked at tomatoes.  Next term we will be growing the seeds we got from the tomatoes. We also took part in World book day and had a fabulous workshop from Gilbert Giggles and Tamara McFarlane. We also enjoyed having a significant female visit us and we wrote comic strips together. We also got to go to a dance studio and we learnt street dance and musical theatre.

In DT we looked at African instruments and then we made our own. 

As you can see it has been a very busy term!  We loved showcasing all our learning in our assembly! Happy Easter everyone.