As part of Cherries and Willows DT topic, greenhouses, the children were building models with spaghetti and plasticine and were posed the question is spaghetti good or bad to build with and why? The children agreed spaghetti was a bad choice as it’s too weak and fragile and the models fell and broke easily. In the coming weeks we are going to focus on strengthening structures to build our final product.
To celebrate the coronation of King Charles III Willows had some fun with their friends in Cherries, making crowns, flags and designing a robe for display.
The children enjoyed a special coronation lunch too- Buckingham bangers and Coronation roast chicken! For pudding there were some yummy biscuits and cupcakes.
Looking very regal in their crowns!
Our art topic this half term is ‘Beautiful Botanicals’. To explore this theme, Willows went out into the school grounds to search for plants and flowers.
Once they returned to the classroom they set to work examining their samples and got straight on with sketching them.
Take a look at them at work!
This term, our RE topic is ‘How do Hindus worship at home and at the Mandir’?
To start off this topic, Willows learnt all about Hindu shrines. They focussed on how Hindus use them to worship in their homes as well as recognising the features and what they symbolise.
Willows had a cracking afternoon creating some wonderful designs for our Smelly Egg Competition.
We all think they are egg-cellent!!!!
As part of their RE topic this half term, Willows have been thinking about the importance of Palm Sunday.
They have been asking and answering questions such as:
Why do Christians call Jesus a king?
Why is Palm Sunday an important day?
How do Christians celebrate Palm Sunday?
For their final lesson they made some lovely Palm Crosses.
On Thursday 23rd March, Willows celebrated World Maths Day… even the date read the same backwards as it did forwards (23.03.23)!
In English we used one of Roald Dahl’s famous stories, Esio Trot, to base our tasks upon. The children worked hard to estimate the amount of tortoises Mr. Hoppy had and then used that number in many different ways. For example, they had to represent the number pictorially, partition it and then write a maths problem using it.
In maths, they brushed up on their money skills using ‘Topmarks toy shop game’ and then went on to calculate people’s orders at The Beach Cafe.
To explore maths in art, the children created some wonderful symmetrical insect drawings.
Willows celebrated British Science Week with lots of fun activities and experiments.
The theme this year was ‘Connections’.
For their first activity the children explored their fingerprints; using magnifying glasses to determine the pattern of their prints. Are they whorl, arch or loop?
Then the children used pencils and sticky tape to produce prints of their fingers. They were able to see the pattern of each print in much more detail.
Afterwards, the children experimented with peppery water and hand soap. This experiment showed the children the importance of handwashing to prevent germs. When they touched the water with soap on their finger, the pepper (germs) moved away from it!
For Mother’s Day, Willows made some fantastic cards!
Miss Tod loves avocados so we designed some cards with that theme in mind…. They all look brilliant!
For Red Nose Day Cherries staff and children all chose their own Mr Men and Little Miss character that represented them.
We then went to Willows and drew our own face with a red nose, designed 6 different red noses and coloured in some Mr Men and Little Miss characters.
We then played some Mr Men and Little Miss bingo in class. 
