As a culmination of our learning about Journeys, Year 1 took a field trip to a local farm!

It was such a neat experience for the children to see what a working farm looked and yes, even smelt like! We got to see piglets (a mother pig had just given birth a few days prior), some humungous mud-covered pigs, goats, chickens, ducks and bunnies.

As a treat, the children got to feed some carrots to the bunnies and chickens. The children and myself were able to get some VERY close-up encounters with the animals. We got to see some growing plants at the farm too!

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Year 2 are buzzing with excitement about their new topic on Electricity.

Take a look at their topic map and see what they will be up to.

Throughout the term Year 6 students have engaged with rainforest study. This topic has been taught thematically across the differing areas of learning. This approach to teaching and learning has enabled the students to build upon their knowledge and understanding of rainforests, within other curriculum capacities other than geography and science.

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In our Family topic in Year 2, we have been learning how to describe other people. Using the third person, we have been adapting sentences to tell each other the names of our family members and friends, as well as what colour hair and eyes they have.

To help us work on our speaking skills, we each chose a family member we wanted to give a presentation about, picked out the information we needed, then wrote it down to create our Spanish scripts. We then used our scripts to help us deliver the fantastic presentations you see in our video. We hope you enjoy them!

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Year 1 are starting their new topic ‘Celebrations and Stories from other Cultures’. Take a look at our topic map.  We’ve already jumped right into learning about Africa using the picture books Handa’s Surprise and Handa’s Hen. We are starting to investigate how different the main character’s village, clothes, home and animals, in the book, are different from what we see in Providenciales.  For example, while we see potcakes, horses and cats in Providenciales. In Handa’s village in Kenya, she sees elephants and giraffes on a regular basis. Very different, indeed!

Mrs. Yorka and I have planned some fun Spanish lessons to learn about some Latin American celebrations that happen during this time of the year.

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Last week, Flamingo class were fortunate  to have a special visit and talk about electricity safety from our local power company FortisTCI.  This experience allowed us to consolidate some of our recent learning in our Science topic on ‘Electricity’.

During our Science lessons, we have been making a variety of electrical circuits using bulbs, motors, buzzers; we even created our own switches. But first we had to learn of the dangers and safety issues that electricity can have, and this talk really helped to reinforce the importance of being careful in different real life situations.

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Year 3 started the year doing a geography-based  topic about ‘The World and Weather’ in which they learnt about our world and where and how people live today.  This half term, they will now be  traveling back in time to find out about life in the past… and more specifically, life in Ancient Egypt. You can see what they will be learning about on their Ancient Egypt Topic Map.

How do we learn about people’s lives in past?   Stepping into their class today and asking them this very question, the Year 3s bombarded me with different ways that I can discover about a time so long ago…

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In their literacy lessons, Year 6 has explored the concept of how the big books are used in teaching younger children literacy skills. They examined the features of these books carefully in order to ascertain what theirs would need to include in order to fulfill the requirements of a big book. Such features included the use of illustrations which complement the written text; engaging characters; short stories which are easy to follow; language devices such as rhyme, alliteration and so on.

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Year 5 had a fantastic start to the new mid-term with a range of powerful presentations from all of the students. The children were set the task of researching either the most important events in the Aztec timeline or the importance of  xocalatl to the Aztecs.

Everybody did a fantastic job of researching carefully, ensuring they understood what they were going to present and thinking of different ways to do just that! We had an Aztec temple, tried actual xocalatl -(the drink), tasted and discussed different chocolates and had lots of fun learning in the process!

We also had a great set of discussions afterwards on how we could improve our presentation skills for next time!  Well done, Turtles!

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Following the success of their Ancient Rome topic, Flamingo Class has already turned its attention to a new area of learning!

At this time of year celebrations lie around every corner, which is great for their new class topic, Let’s Celebrate! They have already begun their project by participating in and thinking about the origins of Halloween, Bonfire Night and Remembrance Day. Over the coming weeks they will focus on many other festivals and events as they consider how and why people around the world celebrate together.

The children will explore this topic using the ‘Thinking Actively in a Social Context’ framework.  This promotes problem-solving and thinking skills and encourages the children to be confident, creative, independent learners.

Click here to see their topic map.