Enterprise Week

We have had a fabulous week!  We have all worked really hard and learned lots, best of all we worked as a team - we might set up in business!

We (or rather George) decided that we would operate a hand wash car service plus the Pitstop café whilst parents had their cars washed.  We made all the scones, flapjacks, brownies etc. and even provided an afternoon cream tea.

We made a profit of £311 which we will spend on our class - another example of teamwork!  Fabulous!

 

Important job - filling the buckets!

 

You have to get a bit wet when washing cars!

 

 

Checking what others are doing!

 

 

A fully booked session!

 

 

PitStop café - we have to enjoy ourselves whilst we wash up!

 

 

A full house for our café!

 

A big thanks to Mrs Richardson and Mrs Barnes (our teaching assistants) for working really hard with the children this week!

 

 

Animal day

As part of our recent creative day with the theme of animals, we all dressed up as animals, we did a lot of writing about animals - Haiku Beastiarys, Dragon OSIE (using Observation, Sensations, Imagination and Emotions) to describe different dragons, Wordles and Dragon diaries - some fabulous work!

Mr Walker also brought in his ducks for us to see!

 

 

A very successful day!

 

Partial solar eclipse

We couldn't not go outside to observe this - the next one won't happen for many years!

Thanks to Dr Ridout for making cardboard pinholes for us to use.

 

We were already outside doing PE!

Healthy Me! topic

As part of our Healthy Me! topic last term we had two parents - Dr Khoo (a heart consultant) and Dr Ridout (a GP) talk to us.  Dr Khoo taught us how to keep our heart healthy and he brought along resources to help us.

Showing us a model of the heart

 

 

Alex became Dr Alex and learnt how to use a stethoscope!

 

 

Looking at unhealthy hearts - plastic of course!

Thank you Dr Khoo for making your presentation so interesting!

 

Dr Ridout talked to us about keeping healthy through exercise - this coincided with the whole class wearing a pedometer each for the whole day!

 

 

 

How to stretch muscles in a warm up / cool down

 

Thank you Dr Ridout!

 

We are very lucky to have two doctors who could speak to us!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



RE week - looing for creatures in our environment

This was part of getting the children to respect and value the creatures we have.

 

Not sure what I've got - need to look closer!

 

 

Arthur was so excited about his huge slug find that he took it home!

 

 

What have we got?

 

 

RE Week - The Perfect World

We have had a great week so far with so many different activities.

We spent an afternoon in the church and the church yard.  We had a list of items to find - ranging from 'Find a grave of someone who died in a war' to 'someone who died as a child'.  The children were fascinated to be able to spend time roaming around looking and finding things.  It was very peaceful in the churchyard and the children were very respectful.

 

Finding one of the things on the list.

 

 

Thinking about the soldier who died during the first world war.

 

 

Working as a team - reading the information on the gravestone

 

 

Gravestone rubbings - no-one had done this before and we had some great results!

 

A brilliant afternoon was had by all and the children learnt a lot - particularly not to

be afraid of being in a graveyard, the cries of 'I've stood on bone!'

stopped the longer we were in the churchyard.

 

'Don't Call the Doctor!'

As part of our Healthy Living topic we have looking at how to keep our teeth healthy.  We began an experiment last week to find out which drink damaged our teeth most.  We made predictions, wrote up the experiment and did observations.

We put a hard boiled egg in an equal amount of a different liquid - Ribena, milk, fresh orange juice, coca cola, vinegar and water.

Today was the reveal - which drink did the most damage?  Were our predictions correct?

 

Gloves on ready!  First we looked at the Ribena - what had happened?

 

 

Elise - putting her hand into coagulated milk!  The smell was yucky!

 

 

And the results?  The orange juice destroyed the egg shell (almost like the enamel which covers out teeth); the coca cola stained the shell but it the stain wiped off and the milk destroyed the inside of the egg - like the dentine in our teeth.

 

All of us said we would brush our teeth more often after seeing what could happen to them!