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Otters new topic 'Come Outside'
Date: 8th Mar 2023 @ 3:55pm
Today Otters investigated our new topic title 'Come Outside' as they went on a hunt to see what they could see find in our woodland area. We saw trees, flowers, birds, squirrels, a spider and a dancing worm! We talked about the first few signs of spring that were showing and made sketches of our finds.
Castle and Sun by Hedgehogs' Class
Date: 17th Feb 2023 @ 2:20pm
Hedgehogs' Class have been inspired by Paul Klee's 'Castle and Sun' painting to create their own artwork using pastels and paint.
Badgers Class trip to Chocolate Whirled
Date: 13th Jan 2023 @ 1:53pm
On Wednesday, Badgers class went to Southport to visit Chocolate Whirled. The children (and adults!) took part in the 'Bean to Bar' workshop where we learnt all about where cocoa beans come from and how they are made into chocolate. There was lots of chocolate tasting along the way too! Then, we had the opportunity to create our own chocolate bar.
Date: 4th Jan 2023 @ 7:19pm
Otters class have been progressing their fine motor skills as artists today. We looked at the self portraits we had drawn at the beginning of Autumn Term and discussed how we could improve on them to make this terms self portraits even better. We thought about including more detail such as eye lashes and eyebrows and the types of shapes our features needed to be alongside sizing and placement of our key facial features.
After we had finished, we put our first picture next to our new one and decided on how our added details had improved our pictures.
Otters Wow starter Spring Term
Date: 4th Jan 2023 @ 7:14pm
Otters have had a wonderful start back to school. They were all very excited to share their Christmas news, then we had our wonderful ’Wow starter’ from Zoo2U. We learnt all about African land snails from the jungle. Tenrecs from Madagascar who are interestingly related to elephants not hedgehogs as we had first thought. Then we met Boris, a bearded dragon from Australia whose beard turns black when he’s scared. We also saw Herbert a horse field tortoise from Russia who has notches on his shells called scoots and learnt that they live for 50-60 years. Lastly, we met a northern striped skunk from North America who was very excited to meet us on his first school outing.
Hedgehogs' Wow Starter_Spring Term
Date: 3rd Jan 2023 @ 9:03pm
Our Wow Starter for our Minibeasts Study Theme
We began our new study theme searching for minibeasts in our woodland. We found worms, spiders, a centipede and a woodlouse. But then came Dave...
Dave brought a whole host of minibeasts for a truly 'creepy crawly' show. We met Charlie the Hissing Cocroach; Millie, the Giant African Millipede; Rosie the Chile Rose Tarantula; Finando the Black Beauty Stick Insect and Pricilla the Flat Rock Scorpian. They were all very sociable. We even 'high fived' the tarantula and shock hands with the scorpian!
We later met some animals which like to eat the minibeasts, like Leonardo de Geko the Geko, Hooter the Barn Owl and Tina the Tenrec.
Finally we met some animals further up the food chain - some snakes.
We throroughly enjoyed our visitors today and are looking forward to learning lots more about these amazing creatures.
Hedgehogs' Fantastic Finish - Flying High
Date: 29th Dec 2022 @ 1:46pm
Our ‘Fantastic Finish’ to our Autumn Term Study Theme. inspired by the Wright Brothers, the Hedgehogs’ class designed and made their own aeroplanes. We thought carefully about the materials to use and the shape of the wings. We then raced them. Some flew high, some flew low and some flew far.
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 12:13pm
Date: 16th Dec 2022 @ 12:11pm
Anne Frank - A True Courageous Advocate
Date: 23rd Nov 2022 @ 10:14am
As theologists, Badgers’ Class (Year 5/6) have explored how Anne Frank’s faith helped her see the good in everything around her.
They started by learning about the basic history of the Holocaust before they learnt about the life of the courageous advocate Anne Frank. After ordering the key events in Anne’s life, they looked at how the Holocaust had an impact of her life.
Afterwards, they looked at some quotes from Anne Frank’s diary, and how her faith helped her to see the good in everything around her, despite what was happening to her and her family. They then thought carefully about which of our Christian values she was using to help her. A truly amazing courageous advocate – an inspiration to us all.
Date: 18th Nov 2022 @ 5:00pm
To conclude our healthy eating topic in science, Otters made their own fruit kebabs for snack this afternoon. Over the week they have been designing them with play dough, talking about what foods are healthy and how important it is to eat healthily.
Date: 15th Nov 2022 @ 1:46pm
Badgers' Class have been working with Mrs Henry to create a preformance for our Remembrance Service.
Date: 11th Nov 2022 @ 2:15pm
Today Otters joined the rest of the school at church in marking Remembrance Day. They have been busy all week learning about the meaning of poppies and creating their own poppies for our class wreath alongside our beautiful poppy newspaper art.
Date: 7th Nov 2022 @ 6:59pm
Otters have created some wonderful firework representations today using ‘magic rainbow paper’. We talked about the different colours, sounds and patterns fireworks make and how they can be used to mark different celebrations.
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 1:17am
Badgers' Class have been creating sculptures out of modelling wire. Whilst creating their wire sculpture, they used a range of tools and materials to add shape and texture to their soldiers. They also learnt to use different tools including some wire cutters and pliers to cut and join the wire.
Date: 29th Oct 2022 @ 12:40am
After discovering why we wear poppies on Remembrance Day, we looked at Georgina O’Keeffe’s poppies. We then drew our own pictures of poppies and made some poppies out of wire and red resin. We used different techniques including smudging and blending to create the different perspectives in a poppy. Whilst creating our wire poppies, we learnt to use some wire cutters and pliers to cut and join the wire, and a drill to make a hole in the wood to stand my poppies in.
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 7:01pm
Date: 19th Oct 2022 @ 6:59pm
Date: 16th Oct 2022 @ 10:09am
We created some absolutely beautiful artwork for our Harvest Service this year based around the book 'The Harvest Story'
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 2:34pm
Our Hedgehogs' Class have been learning about The Parable of the Mustard seed in RE. Today, they performed a song about seeds at our Harvest Service.
Something small can most definitely become something much bigger.
Date: 13th Oct 2022 @ 4:09pm
Date: 12th Oct 2022 @ 3:33pm
Our outdoor learning this week linked with our Stone Age topic. We used berries, charcoal, spices to make our own cave art ?
Date: 4th Oct 2022 @ 7:27pm
To enrich our curriculum, the Hedgehogs' Class visited the Museum of Liverpool today.
We were able to see and therefore show a better understanding of 'The History of Transport'. We saw and learnt about lots of different modes of transport, including:
a steam train, a tram, a lorry, horse drawn carriages, bicycles and cars.
We also met a very large bird! Not a mode a transport but who couldn't visit Liverpool without meeting the Liver birds?
Date: 1st Oct 2022 @ 11:26am
As artists, the Hedgehogs' Class have been busy learning to use different grades of pencil to create their self portraits.
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 6:59am
Otters had a wonderful afternoon yesterday. After walking to church with their buddies, Rev. Paul gave them a guided tour of our beautiful church St Leonard’s. We also listened to an interactive story from the bible and joined together in some prayers before finally being presented with our very own children's bible. Thank you to Rev. Paul, Helan Isherwood and to those who joined us for this special service.
