Today was really chilly and quite damp. Not ideal for outdoor learning, but we enthusiastically worked hard all the same!
We used Sammy snakes to help us see what 1 metre looks like, then used them to measure and lay out metres of different natural materials. This helped us picture in our minds and estimate distances like the width of the pitch. After we had estimated, we used the Sammy snakes to actually measure it. Some of our estimations were really close too!
Unfortunately Mrs Kelly’s hands were so cold she didn’t take very many pictures today! 😔
What a brilliant morning we enjoyed working our way round all the hallowe’en themed activities on our brand new 3G pitch. We were honoured to be one of the first classes to use it and it was fabulous to watch the opening ceremony with Mrs Shaw, Director of Education, cutting the ribbon to officially open our pitch.
We are looking forward to all the amazing games and fun we will have on the pitch for years to come.
The week before the October holiday we all made and designed our fantastic high tech outdoor clip board flower presses before exploring the eco garden and finding some interesting leaves and flowers. Mrs Kelly told us what some of them were and we loo looked some of them up on an app.
We carefully placed the items we picked into our presses and stored them away in our tray…..ready for two weeks later when we had the big reveal this morning.
it was so interesting looking at what happened to the leaves and flowers over the two weeks they were being pressed. You can see some pictures above and hear some of the things we discussed in the video clips below too.
What a difference a week makes with the weather, today was glorious and we were outside all morning without our jackets!
On our way out to start our day we noticed some beautiful webs and even a field full of them when we reached the back of the pitch. What clever little creatures they are creating such beautiful and intricate webs. 🕷
We then moved on to revising addition strategies playing team games before moving on to some orienteering games. In teams we matched numbers on a clock face to our list and found lots of outdoor nouns written on stones then worked together to note down alliterative adjectives to match them.
our final game involved using a map to locate numbered balls. We learned about how important it is to identify where north is and to hold your map the correct way round!
As well as all this, some of us found some beautiful creatures crawling and squirming enjoying the sunshine just like us! 🌞
After a class vote and the idea that setting up the shelters would be fun and practical to help protect us from the rain, we decided to head outside to do just that before learning some new orienteering games…..so off we headed all ready in our wellies and waterproofs…..
And then we changed our minds! Great teamwork and amazing organisational skills got us only so far, but the wind threatened to blow us away, so we came back inside. We got our wet gear off and used our technology and artistic skills to create some fabulous outdoor learning ‘high-tech’ clipboards. Hopefully we will be able to use them soon. 😊
The weather was brilliant this morning while we were outside learning. The sun shone and the rain stayed off. 🌞
We worked in groups to plan and create birds eye view maps of the school grounds. Lots of discovering took place too as we went out and found sticks and moss and leaves and stones and….the list goes on!
We were careful to use only what we needed and to select items that were a good size for our maps rather than breaking up bigger things (mainly sticks). This means we are looking after our land and resources and ensuring there is still plenty out there to use and learn about in the future too. 👍
What an interesting morning we had listening to Mrs Aisha Aman, STEM ambassador and working together to create food chains. We learned all about producers, primary and secondary consumers, plants, herbivores, omnivores and carnivores. Our teachers were really impressed with all the forest animals and living things we knew like voles, caterpillars, hedgehogs, badgers, daisies, trees, mice, foxes, buzzards and eagles.
What an interesting time we had listening to our visitor Stuart from the pastoral team who talked to us about Easter and how Christians celebrate this very special time in the calendar. He explained all about what happened during Holy Week more than 2000 years ago. Thank you for sharing this with us.
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What an interesting time we had listening to our visitor Stuart from the pastoral team who talked to us about Easter and how Christians celebrate this very special time in the calendar. He explained all about what happened during Holy Week more than 2000 years ago. Thank you for sharing this with us.