What an eggcellent week!

Maple

Maple class have been very excited about the chicks we have been hatching in our classroom this week. We have acted out the hatching process to help us discuss and celebrate new life, as well as thinking carefully about how we will take care of them. Seeing new life as a sign of spring, we have also explored the school grounds to find other signs of the season. From our spring hunt, we have created leaf rubbings, created observational drawings of flowers and crafted our own chicks.

Rowan

This week Rowan class have been continuing with their PE unit, hit, catch, run. They practiced some key skills of throwing and catching, which developed into playing a game of tennis using their hand as a bat with their partner. At the end they got out the tennis rackets and in pairs, acted as a bowler and a hitter, to practice hitting the ball back using the racket and running to catch the ball after. They had a great time and were really excited to see how far the ball could go when they hit it with the tennis racket! 

Birch

Birch Clas had a wonderful trip to Fishbourne Roman Palace on Tuesday, to kick off their new topic, 'Emperors and Empires'.  We enjoyed a lively workshop where they became Roman children, learning how to spin, make mosaics, write in Latin and use a wax tablet. We explored the marvellous museum and mosaics, and even found a skeleton!

Sycamore

It has taken a lot of resilience and perseverance to finish our Bankura horses (highly decorated Indian-inspired clay horses). Here’s just a few tasters of what they look like! 

Also, we’ve started our electricity topic in science. Sycamore Class had lots of fun thinking about how circuits are made and they experimented to find out if they could make a working circuit.