Our salad vegetables are ready in the allotment and have just been picked!
We are celebrating the fact that we have our first strawberries in the allotment and that the ladybirds have returned to the mint plants. One of our pupils made some decorative clay sculptures to show this.
Nadia from Tranquil Treehouse is helping Year 4 pupils to notice the ‘wolf’ part of their brain, which in turn will lead to learning some useful relaxation techniques.
Allotment Club chose different varieties of sunflowers to grow – Giant sunflowers, Autumn Sunflowers, and Purple Sunflowers.
When the flowers have withered away, the head of the sunflower will make a great snack for the birds.
It’s fun using the allotment as a setting for our work!
Y4L have been lucky this year to have some French pen-pals from Noisy-le-Sec, near Paris. We have sent Christmas cards, Easter cards and some letters about ourselves, we have found out some information about our French pen-pals and they wrote to tell us about their Epiphany celebrations after Christmas.
We are so excited to receive some more letters before the Summer holidays!
As part of Year 4’s Geography topic about Water this half term, our classes were visited by Mr Robson, a civil engineer.
We found out why water from lakes and reservoirs needs to be treated before it can be used for drinking, and the processes it must go through in a water treatment works. Talking about water for health was very interesting to us, and we also discussed how things like wipes or fatty liquids should not be flushed down the toilet or kitchen sink. We now know that chlorine is added at the chlorination stage to disinfect the water as it travels through pipes, and that we are drinking the same water that the dinosaurs drank, because of the water cycle!
Our new display boards in the Community Room have been populated with the work of our hardworking pupils.
Y4L were learning that there are rules for visiting the allotment in order to keep it a safe and rewarding experience for everyone.
We agreed that we should always walk in the allotment, wear gloves when litter picking or digging the soil, and act respectfully towards the environment.
We had a great time exploring!
We are delighted to support South Tyneside Council in their commitment to raising awareness of climate change in the borough. Their toolkit will support staff in teaching our pupils about environmental awareness and climate change.
For more information, please follow the link to South Tyneside Council’s website.
