Visiting a garden

This term our topic is 'Plants and Gardens'. We wanted to know 'What are gardens for?'
So we went and asked an expert!
Mrs. Hinsley is a garden designer. She explained how she designs a garden to meet the customers needs.These usually include relaxation, eating out, growing herbs, fruit and vevetables, storage, recreation or playing, encouraging wildlife and even drying the washing!
 She considers which surfaces are flat and suitable for paving or decking, where the sun shines in, what needs to be sheltered or near the house and which are not so pretty and need to be hidden away!

 

We were very impressed at how Mrs Hinsley recycles water and creates her own compost to feed back into the earth.

We think Mrs Hinsley has done a great job on her garden!

Raising money

We want to raise money for the WWF an organisation that protects endangered animals and their habitats and works to preserve the earths natural resources for future generations, We decided our business must be environmentally friendly so we used only reusable dessert pots and recycled china for plant holders.

 Here we are selling our goods at the enterprise fair and raising LOTS of money for the WWF!

Enterprise week

This week we have found out about the different ways people can earn a living and thought about how we could set up a small business ourselves.

In science we have been learning how plants reproduce and have planted seeds, separated plants and taken and rooted cuttings. We have many plants growing in our classroom that have cost us nothing to produce! 

As Mothers day and Easter are coming soon we thought we could market our plants as gifts.

World Book Day

On World Book Day we all dressed up as chareacters from our favourite books.
We wrote book reviews explaining why we thought these books were successful.

In the afternoon some children from Year 6 came and read stories to us. We had a lovely day!

It's TIME for gymnastics!

Here are some snaps to show what a wonderful time we had at the gymnastics festival. The theme this year was machines and movement and we presented our sequence on different types of clocks.

We would like to thank Mrs. Jill Bailey and Mrs.Helen Barnett-Moore for the opportunity to try out many new activities and for making a very enjoyable event for all.

Fire dancers

Here we are exploring the movement of fire through dance. We composed and performed our dance sequences to the music of Stravinsky's Firebird.

 

Fire Safety RULES!!!

Today we were treated to a wonderful talk By Mr Louis Minchella, a very experienced fire fighter.

He explained that all materials burn but some burn quicker and easier than others. We told him we had discovered this when studying the Great fire of London!

Mr Minchella showed us his protective clothes which are designed to be 'fire resistent'.

This is the latest new recruit!

We learnt that fire needs three things fuel or material, air, and an ignition source. We discussed what could act as an ignition source; matches, candles, electrical appliances, even lightning!

We know that we have a right to feel safe, and as we grow up we also have a responsibility to look after ourselves. Mr Minchella had some good advice for us.
In the event of a fire Get out, stay out, and call the fire brigade out!
If you catch fire Stop, drop and roll!
Be safe
Check your smoke alarm.
Know your emergency route out of the house.
Don't play with matches.