Welcome to the first blog of the Summer Term!

This half term, we’re going to be investigating and exploring Transport.  We’ve been reading a great story called, ‘Car, car, truck, jeep’ and learning the signs for lots of different types of vehicles. We are going to be making our own cars and trucks.  We are also going to be learning the symbols and signs for stop, go, fast and slow – all part of our core vocabulary.  We think everyone is really trying very hard with their communication skills!  Well done!

This half term, we are lucky enough to be visiting Pegasus RDA Centre in Morpeth.  Everyone has been amazing – sitting up straight on the ponies and getting on and off sensibly.  The people who run the centre have been so impressed with the behaviour and ability of the children!

This week was our last week of dancing with Christine from Tiptoes Dance.  She has been helping us to learn about open and closed body shapes.  Everybody has worked really hard in these sessions, following instructions carefully and trying hard to make dance sequences.

This week’s Half Term Achiever was Mohmin.  Everybody has been so impressed with him, and we all enjoyed watching his video this morning in assembly.  Well done, Mohmin!

In Science this term we are finding out about different Habitats. To enhance our learning we had a visit to The Great North Museum. We enjoyed a very practical workshop where we were able to handle a range of different animals which are usually behind glass display cabinets and out of bounds to the public. We found out about their particular features and also what kind of habitat they would have lived in.

After our session we enjoyed our packed lunch and had some time in the Study Garden before going on to explore the rest of the museum. With your kind donations we were able to go to the Butterfly Wall where we designed our own school butterfly which is now flying around on the interactive wall.

We found many more animals and their different habitats as we walked around the museum. We also explored the Romans display and we were delighted that the children remembered so much about them. There was an amazing virtual reality wall where we could write our initial on a brick which was then used to build the wall. A Roman soldier kept checking up on it!

What a brilliant day and it will really help with our work.

Babs, Lindsay, Jess and Ann

Our new topic in Science this term is Habitats. We explored what a Habitat means and decided we would begin our exploration by making a snail habitat. We found out all about where to find snails and what they needed to live. Babs brought some snails in from a secret place in her garden and then we all went outside to find some more. As we knew where to look we did indeed find plenty. We brought them back to class along with soil, stones, leaves, carrots and fruit.

We placed them all on the table where they had a really good look around( they can actually move quite quickly) Each child had previously chosen a name for their snail and to help identify them (they do look quite similar!) we placed a tiny dot of “snail” varnish in a colour corresponding to the name. At the end of our work on snails we will have a snail race and see whose snail wins! We made a luxury home (in fact we made two as we had so many) and will continue to care for them in class for a short time before releasing them back into the garden.

Babs, Lindsay, Jess and Ann.