Where’s Wally

This topic began with our WOW day. Every child came to school ready to travel on Tydd St Mary airline on a journey around the world. We used our ticket and passport to get on board the plane and visited 8 different countries throughout the day – UK, Italy, Egypt, India, China, New Zealand, Canada and Brazil. In each country we completed an activity and took these home. It was a great start to the topic.

To continue our topic we learnt about the continents and them focused on Europe. We used an Atlas to find the countries in Europe and then focused on Italy to find out more. We made a model of the country and a fact file to show our knowledge.

Our book was The Boy Who Biked the World, we wrote a diary entry about on of his days and tried to include some of our geographical knowledge when writing.

Discovery

This topic has been very exciting! Using our book we really wanted to see Professors Brownstone’s family vault, we wrote a letter of application to gain access. We waited patiently and received a letter inviting us all! It was a great trip to the Vault (Kings Lynn Museum!), we learnt many things about the Vikings and also loved exploring the vault and finding out about the mystical items!

At school we continued to learn about the Vikings – where they lives, why/when they came to Britain, long boats, trading and stories. We looked at sources of information and what this tells us about the Vikings. Some realised that we have to be careful when looking at sources to make sure they are not biased. The children all remembered many different facts about the Vikings and our end of topic posters demonstrated this.

All About me

In this topic our book was ‘Boy at the Back of the Class’. Everyone really enjoyed learning about what happened when the new boy arrived. The children wrote a good diary entry from the viewpoint of the character who narrates the story. Children made some good inferences about the characters based upon their actions.

In our science sessions we learnt about the bones in our skeleton, how muscles work and the joints we have in our bodies. Using videos and interactive resources we learnt about what happens when we eat! Digestion and the organs involved was a great discussion between children every day! The science vocabulary children used was very impressive.

Welcome Back!

It is good to see everyone back at school and refreshed after a summer holiday.

We look forward to seeing you at meet the teacher on 9th September, when you can find out about our class routines and life as a Kingfisher.

PE days are Tuesday (indoor) and Thursday (outdoor) - Please make sure you have your PE at school for these sessions.