Down on the Farm

It was a few weeks ago, but we have been so busy this is the first chance to post our photos.  On the 8th June we spent the day at Sandfield Farm and did a lot of exploring in the fields looking at all the plants and crops.  As part of our science we have been learning about growing plants.  Emma told us about the crops that she grows and what they are used for, such as making bread or feeding her cows.  It was a lovely warm day and we had lots of fun!

3-d Shapes

We had a fun time learning about 3-d shapes and we are now really good at describing them.  We can count their faces, vertices and edges accurately.  Once we knew what the shapes were like, we made them and practised describing them to each other.  We really enjoyed playing, 'I'm thinking of a shape...' in the magic bag. Everyone tried really hard to sort the 3-d shapes into groups according to their properties - this made us really think!

Trip to the Almonry Museum

As part of our topic about 'Famous Faces' we went to the local museum, 'The Almonry' and learnt about local famous people in history.

We found out that Evesham is named after a pig farmer called Eof and that Evesham was once a very small place called Homme.  One day Eof was looking after the pigs down by the River Avon when he saw the Virgin Mary.  This was such a miracle that the Bishop Ecgwin was called and he too saw the vision of Mary.  After this, the land was declared holy and the Abbey was built.  Over times Eof's name and the place of Homme were put together to form 'Eoveshomme' and eventually, 'Evesham'.

We also learnt about Simon de Montfort and the Battle of Evesham in 1265.  We got to try on armour that Simon and his soldiers would have worn and we found out how he was tricked by Prince Edward into thinking his son had arrived in Green Hill with more men to fight, when actually it was the King's army who had come to fight him in battle.

We had such an interesting day and learnt so much about our local history!

World Book Day

We had a lovely World Book Day and dressed up as our favourite characters.  Thank you to all the parents for helping to make such wonderful costumes.

This term we have been looking at Roald Dahl stories and on World Book Day we created our own Dream Jar based on 'The BFG'. We have made a display in the classroom which looks beautiful.

DT - bird feeders

We have had a lovely few days designing, making and evaluating our bird feeders as part of Eco week. The eco committee have asked us to create things that will attract more wildlife into our school grounds and we decided to make bottle bird feeders to hang outside our classroom.  Over the next few weeks we are going to watch and keep count of the birds that come to try out our designs.

We have hung them on the fence so you can see them but we are hoping to put them in places with better camouflage to encourage the birds to come. 

Rockets

We have been learning about famous astronauts this week, from Neil Armstrong to Tim Peake. 

We looked at rockets being launched and talked about the international space station.

Here we are testing our homemade rockets to see whose travels the furthest!

Sunflowers

Last week we were looking at famous artists, in particular Van Gogh. We found out all about his life and his paintings.

Here are our interpretations of his most famous work, the Sunflowers.