The Year One Class celebrated Earth Day on Friday by looking at a short video clip of our beautiful world and the animals and plants that live in it. We also watched a clip about the importance of recycling our rubbish, and the effects that ‘dumping rubbish’ has on our beautiful world. After this we discussed ways to save energy, save money and save animals and each child wrote a short sentence about it to go on their poster. Click here to see the posters in more detail.

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The Year Ones have really enjoyed their gymnastics lessons at the Sports Centre. Over the course of the six lessons, they have worked on a variety of skills such as balancing (on 2, 3, and 4 points) and jumping and traveling in different ways. They have also learnt how to start and finish a routine with gymnastic poise. Week by week, as the children have been developing and improving their skills, they have each worked on creating their own routine. During the last session they performed these to the class. [Read more…]

Monday 23^rd January marked the start of the Chinese New Year and the Pelican Class had fun learning about Chinese traditions and that this year is ‘The Year of the Dragon’. We made Chinese moon cakes, a moving dragon picture and had a good go at eating noodles with chop sticks! Read on to see our pictures.
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The Pelican Class are exploring the Science topic ‘Growing Plants’. We have observed the different types of plants in and around our school environment.  We have looked at the different parts of a plant and can label the roots, the stem, the leaves and the flowers. We have learned that some plants are vegetables and were shocked to find out that when we eat carrots we are actually eating the root of the carrot plant! In order to see this first hand, the children are growing carrot tops and, so far, three out if the four carrot tops have grown strong stems and leaves. We have also monitored and recorded the growth of bean seeds over the past two weeks. Initially, we ‘planted’ the beans in Ziploc bags but had to put them into glass jars after a couple of days because flies and ants seemed to like them a lot! Read on to see our wonderful work on this topic.
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The Pelican class recently took a look at the artist Andy Warhol and in particular his vibrant portrait paintings. We took the children’s photographs and they painted on top of them using bright water colours. They then made their own background in Andy Warhol style printing. To do this they took a small rectangular piece of foam, carved a simple pattern on one side with a pencil, covered this with paint and used it as a stamp to make 4 prints. The results were simply eye catching!

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This year we welcome a new student to the Pelican Class – Barney Barker. All the way from England, Barney the dog has come to Provo Primary to be looked after by the children of the Pelican Class. He has only been here for a week and they love him already! Every night, Barney  goes home with a different child and has lots of fun  – maybe he’ll get to go to the beach, soccer practice, ballet class or even a restaurant one day! Who knows what this dog is going to get up to! Read on to see a photo of Barney with his new friends.


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