Exploring the world around us

Maple

Year 1 children in Maple Class enjoyed a wonderful time at St Cross meadows on Tuesday, hosted by the Hampshire Wildlife Trust. They used nets to find invertebrates in the chalk stream and identified what they had found using a chart. They also collected a variety of minibeasts from the meadow area. We enjoyed the walk to and from St Cross, especially the railway bridge and looking at the beautiful autumnal colours

Rowan

This week Rowan class had the wonderful opportunity to go to the St Cross meadows with the Hampshire Wildlife trust. They did some stream dipping and found lots of amphibious invertebrates such as a shrimp, water scorpion, mayflies and even some small stickleback fish. Then they explored the meadow for any other bug life and found various spiders, beetles and slugs hiding in the tall grass. They had a wonderful time and learn a lot about the local habitats. They were impeccably behaved and respected the Hampshire Wildlife trust leaders. Thank you to them for providing this opportunity to our school free of charge. 

Birch

This week, Bich class became historians to investigate the Stone Age settlement of Skara Brae. They had to use their knowledge of the Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras, maps of Stone Age settlements across the UK and information packs to discover what Skara Brae was and why it was an important discovery. 

Sycamore

Sycamore Class have been working hard on addition and subtraction, using place value counters to help us with exchanging. 

Aspen

This week in Aspen class we've been exploring air resistance and it's impact on day-to-day objects. The class enjoy designing and creating their own parachutes and then putting these to the test.