This week we have been learning we went on our walk in Newport. We spoke about some of the places we thought visitors would like to see in Newport and learnt a little bit of history about the train stations and train line. We planned our route to take in Berry’s Den and the old train bridge, the colourful bee house, Kinbrae Park and the site of the old Newport West Train Station. We marked our route on a map and followed it as we walked. We also had a checklist of things to try and spot.

We have started a Science topic about plants. We learnt what the different parts of a plant are and what their functions are. We have also learnt what a plant needs to grow and designed an experiment with cress seeds to try and prove this.

In Health and Wellbeing, we thought about how our family and friends support about wellbeing using the wellbeing indicators. We also thought about what qualities a good friend has a created a potion to make the ideal friend!

In Numeracy, we have been practising using split strategy as a way of adding two 2-digit numbers. Some children did some work on using column addition to add 2 3-digit numbers.

As part of our topic we chose to learn more about red squirrels. We practised taking notes as we learnt different facts about them and then used our notes to write an information text.

Today was our first Festive Friday and we made Christmas stockings inspired by a Fair Isle design.