• Amara, Year 1, whose entry featured her pet dog, Willow, and the bike she sometimes rides to school.
• Zara, Year 5, who drew a bee on a flower.
• Katie, Year 5, who was inspired by the river, trees and flowers she passes on her journey to school.

We have really enjoyed SCIENCE WEEK; all year groups from EYFS to Year 6 have worked with a fiction book that both tells a story and examines a science concept. The titles our pupils used were:

EYFS: One year with Kipper - considering seasonal change

Year 1: Handa's Surprise - to learn about the needs of living things, specifically diet.

Year 2: The Gruffalo - to identify and name a variety of common animals including fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals as represented by prominent characters such as the snake, owl and fox.

Year 3: Winter Sleep - to learn about different kinds of hibernation.

Year 4: Moth - to learn about adaptation

Year 5: Stone Girl Bone Girl - story of Mary Anning (fossils)

Year 6: Seeds of Change: Wangari's Gift to the World - considering the benefits of replanting on the environment.

Each class has created resources based on their book which they then used to re-tell their story to another year group; Year 6 and Year 1 have shared their stories with each other, Year 5 with Year 3, Year 4 with Year 2, Reception with Nursery.

In addition to this, the older children have decided what question they would like to know the answer to, based on their book. For example, in Year 4, based on the book Moth which explores adaptation, some children wanted to know about different species of moths, or what the similarities and differences between moths and butterflies were. Some wanted to explore other animals and how they have adapted to their environment such as the arctic and desert fox. 

Younger year groups have carried out a related science activity to the theme of their book.

Thank you to Mrs Lodge for planning an exciting week, and to Ms Forest Bendien, a parent volunteer, who came in to do some further work with Year 6 to extract DNA from strawberries!