Music Concert

This term Swallowtails have been learning the recorder. They have learnt to hold a recorder correctly, blow to make a 'good' sound and have learnt the notes G, A, B, C and D. In the concert they confidently played a range of pieces including, 'Hot Cross Buns', 'Yee Hah' and 'We Will Rock You'. 

Outdoor Learning Festival

8 children from Swallowtails Class represented the school at an Outdoor Learning Festival. We made our own Stick Man figures and clay portraits, and investigated different plants and insects. We had a fun and interesting sunny morning!

Visit - Wessex River Trust

Swallowtails had visitors from the Wessex River Trust who taught us all about rivers! 

In the classroom we made a pretend river with lots of resources to see the different parts of a river. Then we discussed our local river and where it comes from and got to go on a walk to the river. There we found the features of a river using a Wildlife Identification sheet, talked about how it is a chalk river and watched what happens to chalk when it is put in water and completed a flow experiment!  During the afternoon we got to identify different invertebrates and look at them closely using a digital microscope. We then made our own pledge cards and thought about how we can protect our rivers and played a river game outside. 

Science with Professor Kaos!

We had a lot of fun learning about light with Professor Kaos. He taught about how our eyes see different colours, and we tried different coloured spinners to investigate how what we see changes when things are moving. We then learned about ultraviolet light using a special bulb. We drew pictures on filter paper using black or brown, and learned about how we can see a range of colours when this was wet so the ink ran. Finally, we were given our own spectrum specs to see refracted light!

Outdoor Learning

We had a fun afternoon practising some of our outdoor learning skills - whittling, den building and tree climbing. Some of us also took part in some very competitive sack racing!

Swallowtails Church Service

This half term we have been learning all about water and its importance in our lives. We shared our learning with the rest of the school and the church congregation through the retelling of Bible stories, sharing artwork and singing the hymn 'Water of Life'. We enjoyed writing our own play scripts for Bible stories that highlighted the importance of water in Christianity.

Geography

Swallowtails learnt about where mountains come from and carried out different activities in rotation to look at the 5 different types of mountain and how they are formed. These were: fold mountain, fault-block mountain, dome mountain, volcanic mountain and plateau mountain. 

Science

Swallowtails are learning about magnetism this half term. Today we investigated the question: How far away does a magnet need to be before it attracts a magnetic material? We first thought about how we could set up this investigation and make it a fair test. Then we had lots of fun investigating and recording our results. 

Geography

This term Swallowtails are learning about rivers. Today we learnt about the upper, middle and lower course of a river. We then created our own river journey outside using natural resources.