This has been a quick term! The theme has been ‘What lives in my garden?’ we started by having a good look around our own school garden and outdoor area. Armed with magnifying glasses we embarked on minibeast hunts and found many different creatures. This stimulated our creativity as we set about creating minibeasts in a variety of different ways using a range of different materials and resources.

We have used many Eric Carle books in our lessons and discovered through our creative activities that he illustrates his books using mixed media and collage. He is an amazing artist and we had a go at creating our own animals in his style. They are stunning!

In maths, we have been looking at the composition of numbers and using many different manipulatives to see how many different ways we can make the numbers to aid our understanding that a teen number is one lot of ten and then units. We have also been looking at different ways we can add and takeaway using number lines number tracks and a range of manipulatives.

As part of enterprise week the children have been working hard to create a range of animals using pine cones as well as making butterfly cakes to sell at our Enterprise Fair.

We have been lucky to observe the lifecycle of a frog close up thanks to having frogspawn in our school pond

We were also fortunate enough to welcome the Ocado Group ‘Code for Life Team who travelled from Hertfordshire to show us how technology is used in industry and what an exciting range of technology-based jobs are out there. During their visit Laura, Florian and Stefan challenged us to design our own robots. The children were so excited, engaged and had some amazing ideas. Hopefully all this will inspire some of the work towards technology based careers.