Farm Trip

We had an awesome time at the McIntyre’s Dairy Farm today! When we arrived we fed the calves their milk. After walking around the dairy shed and learning all about how it works we got to be ‘cows’ and go around on the rotating belt. This is where the cows walk on and as they go around they get milked. It was then time to do our quiz and answer questions about things we had learnt. Later on we walked to the forest where there was a letter treasure hunt. Once we had found all 21 letters we had to figure out what the sentence said. We had so much fun and learnt lots about where our milk comes from. A huge thank you to Richard and Emma McIntyre for having us at their farm and to our wonderful parents, Miss Fryer, Mrs Lankshear, Mrs Poulsen and Mrs Watkins for coming along to help!

 

We have finally moved into our new, beautiful, fantastic classroom! We love it!

 

We had the ‘Milk carton folding’ competition today! We battled it out against Room 3 children for the fastest folder! Well done to Jasmine, Connor and Josh who got into the finals for our class and to Holly who won! Afterwards we had the Interhouse Tug of War competition. We watched as the seniors competed against each other, then we got a turn!

 

Firewise

As part of our unit on ‘Firewise’ we had two Firemen from the Halcombe Fire Brigade come and talk to us about what we have been learning.

They reminded us that,

·         matches and lighters are tools not toys and are only for adults to use

·         If there is a fire you need to ‘Get down, Get low, Get out and shout FIRE, FIRE FIRE’!

·         It’s important to get low because the smoke is poisonous and you can’t see through it so   you must get out quickly

·         Everyone should have a safe meeting place at home in the event of a fire

·         It’s important we get ourselves out and not our pets or toys (the firemen will do that)

·         Only adults light fires

·         Everyone should regularly check their smoke alarms

GET FIREWISE!!!

Buddy Class

We had a ‘Technology Challenge’ today for Buddy Class. We were put into teams of four and had to design an outfit for a model. We only had 10 full sheets of newspaper, sticky tape, scissors and a stapler. We could only use the materials given and the model had to be able to parade on the catwalk. We were judged on the style and fit of the ‘clothes’ and to a lesser extent their ability to survive the modelling session!!

 

 

Throughout the year, many students from our school have been collecting yummy stickers. Mrs Otter gathered them all up and sent them off to get counted. In return we get FREE sports gear! This year we asked for touch balls and cones. Thank you to the students who collected stickers and to Mrs Otter for organising the whole thing!

Here is a photo of our top six collectors: