Y5B repotted some leek plants, then placed them in the polytunnel. Pupils were fascinated by what was growing in there. They sniffed the herbs: mint, thyme and rosemary in the raised beds. Everyone loved seeing how much the bulbs they had planted in Year 4 had grown.
Children in Y3W took a trip to the allotment on Friday to replant some cabbages. We have been learning lots about plants in our Science lessons, including what they need to grow. We are ready to water them regularly and watch them flourish!
Meet our Allotment Club!
How lucky that the day we visited the polytunnel to plant some seeds to grow peas, carrots and cauliflowers, a box arrived full of all the things we need to grow salad vegetables, courtesy of The Big Grow by Innocent and GIY(Grow It Yourself).
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Hello everyone,
We hope you had a lovely weekend and are ready for a week of exciting activities.
Phonics
Today’s sounds is ew chew the stew. We will be logging onto google classroom at 10am to deliver a phonics session for the class. The materials below will help you if you are unable to join the classroom meeting.
The video below will further support the children’s learning.
Challenge the children to spell the ew words using Fred fingers to help them. They could then try to use the words in sentences. Remember the children can log on to fast phonics on reading eggs to further support their reading of these sounds.
English
In English we’d like you to look at pages 10 and 11 which has activities about using adverbs.
Maths
Maths today is adding and subtracting ones on pages 10 and 11 of the activity booklet.
Science
At school we have been learning about the basic needs of animals. Today we’d like children to design a pet home, thinking about what the pet needs to be healthy and happy. Use the internet to research your pet to help you design the perfect pet home!
We are so proud of Noah in Y4E. His fantastic entry from year 3 for the Primary Engineer Leader’s Award has been announced as the winner for the north east of England category! Please visit https://leadersaward.com/2020-north-east-gallery/ to see Noah’s design as well as the other shortlisted entries.
In Science, Year 1 have been working on seasonal change. On Tuesday, we learnt about hedgehogs and how they prepare to hibernate in the winter time. We know that they are loved by gardeners because they eat lots of pests. We enjoyed a first visit in our school allotment and had fun looking out for slugs!
For the Great Science Share we asked the children to take part in a science experiment at home. The children were able to choose their own experiment and it looks like they have really enjoyed themselves.
In our allotment we noticed that there seemed to be a lot of strange looking ladybirds on our raised beds! After a bit of research, we discovered that many of them were in fact stages in the life cycle of a ladybird. We didn’t see any eggs, but we spotted lots of larva, pupa, and adult ladybirds. We had a little ladybird spotters guide and found that the most common ladybird in our allotment is the adult 7- spot ladybird, its larva and pupa. Apparently there are 46 different species of ladybird in the UK. We learnt quite a bit about them. They are great for our allotment ecosystem.
For World Ocean Day, our daily challenge was to create a poster about ways to protect our ocean. The children have really thought hard finding ways that we could help and created some excellent posters.
Our daily challenge was to draw and label a human body. Some of the children even named muscles and bones!
