After lunch Rowan class in primary voted to have a little extra play time to improve their fitness and Health and well being especially now the weather is getting better. This has helped improve their concentration during afternoon lessons. Greater friendships have formed and greater understanding of others’ abilities during play.
As part of the amazingly successful STEM day, Primary pupils took part in the RHS Big Seed Sow. As you can see, all the Primary pupils loved getting their hands dirty and some mentioned a career in a garden centre!!
Maple sowed – Giant sunflowers
Oak sowed – Titan sunflower seeds
Rowan sowed – Sweet peas
Hazel sowed – Radishes and cucumbers
Beech sowed – Tomatoes and nasturtiums
Birch sowed – Cabbages, tomatoes, courgettes.
As part of our STEM day we have been putting our engineer hats on and we have had to work as a team to combat problems.
First we had to blow a balloon up and attach it to a star that was on some string and identify how each team could get their balloon to the end quickest. We then had to identify any materials that could possibly make the balloon travel faster.
We then worked in groups to build a bridge using limited resources to help support a car. The children were ask to work in team and decide as a group what method would be most beneficial.
As part of Birch’s English lesson, we mixed coordinating conjunctions up with other words and the children had 4 baskets in the corners of the classroom. There children were ask to come up and identify coordinating conjunctions from the choices on the floor. The children worked independently as well as working in a team!
Birch are confident in identifying coordinating conjunctions, ask your child at home!
Today in Maths Birch was been busy bees! We worked through a PowerPoint with lots of demonstrations given by Mrs Kennedy. We developed our skills on addition and multiplying to help us get a total of a sum.
Beech class visited Tesco to try to find some Fairtrade items. We walked aisle upon aisle on the hunt for some items that have the Fairtrade symbol. Interestingly we found that Rainforest Alliance was on a lot of products. Their aim is similar to Fairtrade, which is to build for a more sustainable world in which people and the environment are treated fairly!
Well done to the great effort of everyone who took part in our World Book Day dress up last Thursday! It was great to see all of your favourite books brought in from home.
For our Topic lesson we developed our knowledge of what Fair Trade is. We used wrappers of chocolate, fruit and veg and we had to use atlases to identify the countries that they came from. We were told that produce could be either brought to Great Britain using planes, boats or wagons. We had to discuss why we thought the fruit and veg was imported and not grown in Great Britain. We discussed the different climates of countries and how important it is that the weather is to ensure the fruits and vegetables grow. 
In English over the last couple of weeks we have been looking at different myths and legends. Today, we conducted some research, using different techniques, about the Loch Ness Monster. We recorded our findings on a poster and shared our facts with each other.
Did you know the first story of Nessie dates back to AD 565?
