In our Maths and topic work we have been exploring maps and directions. We have described routes around school and created our own ‘treasure’ maps for our friends to follow.
Chestnuts thoroughly enjoyed meeting the staff from the Fans Museum and exploring all the amazing football memorabilia including a variety of signed shirts and gloves, trophies and old footballs and rattles from the 1940’s. What an amazing opportunity!
This week the children in Hawthorns and Maples had a visit from Phillipa and her robot gang. The children became computer programmers and learned how to control each sphero. We had lots of fun and completed some tricky challenges.
Our new topic in Acorns is ‘On the Beach’. This week we explored some seaside themed resources, and really enjoyed looking at stories about pirates, such as ‘Pirates Love Underpants’ and ‘The Pirates Next Door’.
We decided to set up a pirate ship role play area, so have been using books and online resources to find ideas for props, which we have then been making ourselves.
We can’t wait to keep adding to the area, and have had great fun playing in it so far. We even set up a ‘plank’ outside, so we can make any pirate enemies ‘walk the plank’!
As part of our science work this week, Cherries made cookies.
We measured the ingredients, before mixing it together. Then, we rolled out the cookie dough and sprinkled 100s and 1000s on top.
They were delicious!
As part of our Science this week, Cherries made cakes. We looked at the chemical change when ingredients are mixed and then cooked. We created a fair test by following a recipe, to make sure the correct amount of ingredients were used so the cakes tasted great!
Cherries have recently visited Marsden Beach to take part in Beach School.
We explored the rock pools and found lots of small sea creatures, including a very large crab which tried to nip us! We then played games and enjoyed the sunshine. We can’t wait to go back!
