This afternoon, we had a webinar with experts that taught us about habitats and biodiversity. We were able to use the knowledge that we have already learned to answer questions about habitats and birds. There are over 11,000 different bird species and we hope to be able to identify some of them when we do our Big Bird Watch event next week!
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Key Stage 1 have been learning about the importance of plants and trees to our planet but also about how they provide habitats for birds and other wildlife. Today, we started work on our final product for our expedition. Using our experts from the Council, we have planted 5 fruit trees to create a mini-orchard and also many different types of plants to create a hedgerow along the boundary of the fence.
We learnt about how to care for our newly planted saplings and also how we can protect them whilst they are still establishing themselves in their new home. We can’t wait to see how they grow and develop in the months and years to come. Hopefully, one day, we will have apples, pears, cherries and plums to eat!
The trees and hedges were kindly provided by the Tree Council as part of their Orchards for Schools project.
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Year 4 have been thinking about the materials that are all around us and deciding if they are opaque, translucent or transparent. I wonder if they can tell you the meanings of these scientific terms? We also had fun predicting whether different materials would produce dark, faint or barely visible shadows. After shining our torches onto the different objects, we recorded our results and looked for patterns in them. Well done everyone. I wonder what we will investigate next?
Sorry about the lack of photos 4H – the rest are refusing to upload! 🤷♀️
Mrs Haycock
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Year 4 have been learning about the dangers caused by the sun and how we can protect ourselves from them. Active learning helped us to search for the facts around our room in the first place. We then used these facts to produce a leaflet about the dangers we had learned about.
Mrs Haycock
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