Summer 1

Outdoor Learning

We really enjoyed teaming up with Junipers Class for our Outdoor Learning this week. We identified different trees in our school grounds, did bark rubbings and used magnifying glasses to closely inspect the bark! We even enjoyed a tree-themed game!

Geography

We finished our Geography topic by answering our key question of 'What makes a country rich?' When we thought about this in January, we only talked about money, but now we listed lots of other ideas including music, museums, people, food and kindness. We worked in groups to rate which ideas we felt were the most important.

Music

We are very excited to be learning how to play brass instruments this term! For our first lesson, we learned how to press our lips against the mouthpiece and blow down the tube to make a sound on a trombone, baritone or cornet. We then played different rhythms on our instruments and a few of us were invited to come to the front to play rhythms for the class to copy.

Science

In Science we dissected flowers to identify its different parts. We then learned what job each of these parts does, and why this is important to the flower.

English

We enjoyed starting our new English topic of 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl. We worked in groups to act out scenes from one of the early chapters, and shared them with the rest of the class. We also designed Wanted posters to help the characters in the book catch a witch!