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Falcons' Outdoor Learning
The children in Falcons have had such a fabulous outdoor learning week. Groups of children have worked with Mrs Hicks to re-create an Anglo-Saxon wall using wattle and daub. They used natural materials that were authentic and similar to how the Anglo-Saxons would have created it (even using cow…
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Outdoor Learning Assembly
To conclude such a wonderful Outdoor Learning Day, the children in KS2 all came together to share their outdoor learning experiences from the day.
Falcons started by explaining how they completed mathematical equations using natural resources. In the afternoon groups of children worked with Mrs…
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Outdoor Learning Day!
Today was a very wet outdoor learning day! As we have been learning about shapes, we explored which 3D shapes we could find outside and we began to measure different outdoor items!
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Build a bonfire
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The Ducklings and Little Chicks have been using natural materials from the garden to build a bonfire with.
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Fun in the rain
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The Ducklings have been enjoying learning outdoors even despite all of the rain this week. They have had fun jumping in the puddles, painting and mixing colours in the puddles and manoeuvring the bikes in and out of the puddles. It has also been very good practise for them putting on and taking…
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Do the biggest plants have the biggest leaves?
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We gave the children a scientific question to investigate and find the answer to.
They discovered that actually some small plants had some of the biggest leaves and that actually some huge trees only have tiny leaves.
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Releasing our butterflies
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The children were sad to see our painted lady butterflies go, but we have been very good at looking after them and watching them grow since they came to us as tine caterpillars. They have spread their wings and flown free.
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Gardening Fun
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The Ducklings and Little Chicks have been enjoying preparing our garden beds ready for planting. They have been using different tools to weed and plant. They are learning lots of new plant names whilst helping to do this.
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Look what we found in the garden!
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As well as finding a young frog last week, we have know found a big adult frog. The children enjoyed observing all of its features and asking lots of questions before realising it back into the wild!
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Our froggy find
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Look what we found in our garden today when Mrs Richardson and the children were gardening....a tiny frog!
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What a week in Kestrels!
This week in Kestrels we have had lots of fun! On Tuesday, we went on a coach to Chester. We visited the Roman museum and marched around Chester like Roman soldiers. Isabelle particularly liked Miss Barlow getting beheaded by a Roman Soldier! We all loved trying on the costumes and armour at the…
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Our trip to the plant place
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Thanks to the Plant Place for letting us visit today! We had a fabulous morning. We started with a hunt around the garden centre to look for clues to a quiz. Then we each planted a sunflower seed and finally explored all the different types of plants. There were so many!!
We ended our visit by…
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