Outdoor learning day We had a fabulous outdoor learning day. We enjoyed our OPAL session with many parents joining us to build dens, play parachute games, engage with sand and water play and enjoy the creative resources.
We enjoyed a cooking session with Wild Classroom making a fruits of the forest crumble.
We used our learning from a recent science lesson to pot our own sunflower seeds. We sequenced the instructions in order to correctly plant our seeds, filling a pot to nearly full with compost, discussing what makes compost different to soil, we made a hole in the compost and dropped in one seed. We explained the pot should only have one as there would not be space for lots of plants to grow in one pot. We watered our seeds and left them in the sunshine.
Maple have been on a wild plant hunt, searching for daisies, buttercups, nettles and daisies and using a tally chart to record our results. We also found clover, bluebells and ivy.
We experimented with jelly to see if different preparation methods could change how long it takes jelly to set. We prepared three jellies according to the instructions, one with fresh pineapple, one with tinned pineapple and one with no pineapple. We predicted what would happen to our jellies, timed how long it took for each jelly to set and discussed and recorded our results in a table. The jelly with fresh pineapple did not set even after being left for 20 hours. The tinned pineapple jelly was semi-set after 20 hours and the jelly with no pineapple was set by the end of the afternoon.
We had a virtual reality workshop exploring mini beasts. We engaged with discussions and answered questions including classifying if a mini beast was an insect, arachnid or mollusk.
We explored the life cycle and metamorphosis of a pond frog through a fun game. We learnt about the 4 life stages of a frog - frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets, frog. We all began as frogspawn and played rock paper scissors to move onto the next life stage. The aim of the game was to develop into a frog by the time the timer ran out.
Water clock experiment We have used a water bottle, water and food colouring. Cutting the bottle and piercing a small hole in the lid, we have poured the water into the top and used a stopwatch to measure either 30 seconds for bottle 1 or 1 minute for bottle 2. Each time the interval has passed, we have recorded a mark on the bottle and considered whether it is an accurate measure of the passing of time. We have poured the water back into the top and observed the water flow indicating minutes and seconds passed to test our hypothesis that it is an accurate measure.
Maple class enjoying an ELSA session with Mrs Bilby
Safer Internet Day Assembly with Mr Glazier
Dress to Express
Book Week Celebrations
We visited Penshurst Place to explore toys through time. We handled teddies that were 100 years old, 50 years old, 10 years old and a new teddy. Each group had a box of artefacts and had to chronologically order the toys from oldest to newest explaining their rationale. We then toured the toy museum, completing the toy quiz as we went around. We made our own Victorian thaumatrope spinning toys and played with toys from the last century including skittles, spinning tops, Rubix cubes yo-yos and more
During our trip to Rochester Cathedral explored celebrations within the Christian community, focusing on weddings and christenings. We acted out these special times, exploring the role of individuals and special objects within the ceremonies, for example bride, groom, priest, godparents, rings, candles, font.
As part of our learning comparing Faversham to Shanghai, and to celebrate Chinese New Year, we visited a Chinese restaurant to compare traditional Chinese food to traditional English food. We explored chopsticks and discussed whether we could grow rice in our climate.
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