Our maths market

The children have decided our blog title today and we worked together to decide what we would write to tell you all about 'our maths market'...


"We went to some shops in our classroom and there was lots selling and buying. Some of us also went on the computer to play money games on ICT games. We could buy rulers and squishy toys and lots of other things. We had to look at the table to see the price of the objects. We had a cup of money and a basket to put our things in."

Teddy bear's picnic

This week the children brought a teddy from home and took part in a teddy bear's picnic at lunch time. The class enjoyed showing their teddies how to learn in Orange Class and we were very impressed at how well behaved they all were! I think the children set a very good example...

Golden time in the sunshine

I must admit that I had some help with the blog this time...Thank you to our Orange Class photographers and to a very helpful Logan who took our class photo for us! Here are the class enjoying their golden time in the sunshine before half term.

Florence assembly

Thank you to all who came to our church assembly. Here are our decorated letters and a copy of what was said by the children in assembly as they read out our Florence Nightingale acrostic poem. Look closely and you'll see the children have drawn some fab pictures to match each letter.

is for Florence Nightingale

is for lady with the lamp 

is for organising food for the hospital

is for responsible. She looked after the soldiers.

is for encouraging the soldiers.

is for neat and tidy beds.

is for clean and tidy clothes.

is for excellent hospitals forever.

Raft building

Today we did an experiment to see which materials would float. As a class, we talked about the term 'observing' and how it meant we had to watch things carefully.

Our task was to test materials, to record our findings and to design a raft which could safely carry Iron Man and his heavy suit across a river if his jets failed.

Here are the children testing their materials and recording their observations...

Here are the finished rafts, we chose our materials based on our findings...

Here we are enjoying testing our rafts during snack time. It was great fun and the class were very excited to see each other's rafts being tested out by our substitute Iron Man! When some rafts sank, we were not discouraged, but instead worked as a team to suggest why this may have happened and how we could improve it next time.

And finally, thank you to all the adults who joined us today on our Walk for Wildlife. Have a wonderful weekend.