The Big Bad Wolf, time travellers and scientists

Written By Sally Atkins

Yr 1

Maple Class has had an amazing start to the year! It has been so lovely to observe and participate in their amazing play and to see their creative ideas come to fruition. This week we have been marvellous mathematicians. We have been exploring various ways of representing numbers, including; making the number, drawing a pictorial representation and writing the numeral and the number using words! We have also had a visit from the Big Bad Wolf to support our Three Little Pigs focus! The Wolf was rather forgetful and told the children the wrong story! Luckily, the children were able to retell the story in their play! We are very proud of Maple this week, they have settled in amazingly and we can't wait to see what they create next!

Yr 2

This week year two made time travelling head bands and then travelled back in time to 1666. Once they arrived they discovered some buried items. After excavating them they discovered a bottle of wine, some cheese and a diary extract from Samuel Pepys. The diary extract mentioned a terrible disaster that happened in London. Once back in class they used the key words from the diary to do some google searching where they discovered that there had been a Great Fire. This has started our topic called "What if London hadn't burnt down?" where we will be learning all about the Great fire of London.

Year 3 and 4

In science this week, Birch Class started their longitudinal study. This year, they will be making observations, taking measurements and hypothesising about the changes that occur to a pond habitat over the course of a year. To start the study, the children spent time outside observing the pond and surrounding areas, noting the vegetation and wildlife. They linked what they observed to prior learning about lifecycles and seasonal changes. We are looking forward to seeing how this habitat changes throughout the year!

Yr 5 and 6

This week Yr 5 and 6 had to investigate if light shines in straight lines. With a length of hose, a sheet of plastic and a torch the children co-operated together to decide what was the best way to prove if the statement was true.

We found that the light did not shine on the table when the hose was bent as the light could not travel around the curves. We also discovered that as the hose has an opaque inside, the light was absorbed by the black material.

Sally Atkins
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