Mark, of Acomb Pets, came to visit us again this year. He brought some of his creatures from different countries with him. We were able to hold them and ask him lots of questions. There was an African Pygmy Hedgehog, two…
Category: Outdoor Learning Week
Outdoor Learning Week, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?
Miniature Gardens
As part of our theme of ‘Different Worlds’, we made miniature gardens. There were some very imaginative ideas including Space, Beach and Fairy Gardens, as well as Vegetable, Wild and Exotic Gardens. What was you design?
Outdoor Learning Week, PE & Sport, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?
Outdoor Exercise
Miss Emma Havercroft, who runs the Tu-Tu Funky dances classes, lead an outdoor Keep Fit Dance session for us all. The Early Years children were very quick at picking up the routine! Can you count the members of staff taking…
Outdoor Learning Week, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?
Doors to Different Worlds
We all made miniature doors. We imagined them opening into different worlds. It may be a Fairy World, Space, a Land of Strange Creatures or a Jungle. We would have to shrink first, to go through them! Have you seen…
EY, Outdoor Learning Week, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?
Outdoors with Early Years
The Early Years children enjoyed everything outdoors. They used their maths skills on a scavenger hunt . . . wrote stories about where they might go if they went through the fairy doors we made . .…
Outdoor Learning Week, What's Happening in School?, Year 1
Outdoors with Year 1
Year 1 enjoyed maths outside. They had to hunt for digit cards, make 2 digit numbers and order them. Then they had to choose a card and write the number one more and one less.…
Outdoor Learning Week, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?, Year 3
Outdoors with Year 3
Year 3 looked for different types of minibeasts in the school grounds. They used tally marks to record how many of each type were found. Later in the week they created a bar chart and chose an appropriate scale. We made rafts from…
Outdoor Learning Week, Summer 2016, What's Happening in School?, Year 5
Outdoors with Year 5
Year 5 imagined they been shipwrecked or abandoned on desert islands, strange planets and even the North Pole! They wrote messages to send out in a bottle for their rescue. We found the bottles floating in the ‘sea’ and read…