Our Last Week of Spring 2!

10th April 2024A Welburn

Crew MW have had a lovely week exploring all things Easter! We’ve talked about the Christian celebrations for easter and the story behind this, we’ve looked at how plants grow and change and how during the spring time, lots of new baby animals are born such as chicks and lambs! We’ve really enjoyed exploring spring and Easter in our adult led lessons and during provision.

Our Easter celebrations continued throughout the week with our Easter bonnet parade on Wednesday! Once we had shown off all of our fantastic bonnets, we worked as a crew to vote for our favourites. Take a look at our fantastic creations…

Finally, we ended the half term with a visit from the Easter Bunny! He’d left lots of clues around school for an Easter egg hunt! We worked really hard as a crew to find the clues and to answer them. The last thing to do this half term was to celebrate Miss McGlone’s Birthday! Happy Birthday Miss McGlone! What a busy half term it has been!

We are Scientists 👩‍🔬

20th March 2024Laura Godley

Today we were scientists in our expeditionary learning and looked at animals and their offspring. We talked about how mammals give birth to live babies and how most reptiles and bird lay eggs. We matched animals and the hound as well as animals which go through a metamorphic changes so they don’t look like their mothers when they are born, such as butterflies and frogs.

We are scientists

20th March 2024Nicola Robson

Today in our expedition we were scientist and looked at animals and their offspring. We talked about how mammals give birth to live babies and how reptiles and bird lay eggs. We matched animals who go through a metamorphic changes so they don’t look like their mothers when they are born. We then discussed and wrote about the changes for example lava to caterpillar to butterfly.

Magical Magnets 🧲

15th March 2024Laura Hamill

In our expedition lesson, we began to experiment with magnets, investigating how they work. We identified that opposites attract. This means that when you put a North Pole with a South Pole, they will pull together and ‘stick’! It was so fun to feel the force of the magnets pushing each other away when like poles were placed together – North and North, South and South repel!

Magnificent magnets 🧲

15th March 2024Kate Thompson

In our expedition lesson, we have been investigating how magnets work and what items around the classroom were magnetic. We found that when you put North Pole and North Pole together (the same) the repel but when you put North Pole and South Pole together (opposite) they attract. We found that items such as scissors, paper clips and coins are magnetic but things such as paper, cardboard and pencils are not. 🧲

Which materials are magnetic? 🧲

14th March 2024Ruth Shields

Yesterday afternoon, we explored a range of materials to investigate which were magnetic or non magnetic. We sorted our materials into 2 groups. We also discovered that that attraction was stronger with some items. To help us understand why some metal materials are magnetic we watched a video that explained for an item to be magnetic, it just contain cobalt, iron or nickel.