Discovery Learning

Welcome to Summer 2
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🪱Discovering worms 🪱
What a busy start to this half term…
🪱We worked as a team to make a wormery
🪱We dug in the garden to find real worms!
🪱We made different sized worms and compared the lengths
🪱We used our threading skills to make a pasta worms
🪱We read stories about worms and found out facts in a non-fiction book
🪱We have learnt rhymes about worms
🪱We have played in our role play Bug Lab 🔬🧫🧪🥼

🐓Discovering chickens… 🐓
What a special morning for our children.
We found out…
🐄🐑Which animals live on Farmer Nicky’s Farm
🥚🪺That you can get different coloured eggs from chickens
🐓How to gently touch the chickens
🐓What a chicken needs
🙋🏻‍♀️ Lots of children were able to speak clearly and ask questions to our visitors which made us feel very proud.
We also found out that Farmer Nicky has owls…. I see an owl topic looming! 🤩

🐝 There was a real buzz in the classroom today as we celebrated World Bee Day. We found out so many facts about bees- where they live, what they make 🍯 and just how important bees are to our environment. 🐝

🧑‍🌾 What a super, farm themed, stay and play we had this morning. 🧑🏽‍🌾
So lovely to experience this special time together, thank you for coming everyone!

Well done to our Year 4 pupils, who have been inspired by David Hockney and learning how to draw facial features in anticipation of next week's self portraits! Watch this space: there were some fantastic eyes sketched with use of light and shadow using soft and hard-leaded pencils.

A huge thank you to Mrs Keedy. who has been into school this week to share her knowledge and experience as an oral hygienist for our pupils in Year 4 and Discovery Learning.

In Year 4, pupils have been learning about our teeth and developed an understanding of how to look after them, especially thinking about sugars, what we eat/drink and how to clean correctly. Thank you Mrs Keedy!

🐄Meet ‘Udders’ the cow! 🐄
Today we found out about cows and where our milk comes from.
“It feels squishy” and “I can feel the milk!” The children thought this was hilarious and lots of fun!

KS1 had a wonderful time on their school trip, on Thursday last week, and what superstars they were! They all enthusiastically walked to the Valley Gardens, where they spent time hunting for and drawing different leaves and flowers (making excellent links to their science work), visited the Harrogate Pump Rooms (where they were able to see artefacts from the past that they had learned about in history) and a visit to the Mercer Art Gallery, which was a firm favourite amongst the children. The photography and art was fascinating and the huge LED sculptures were a wonderful sight to see. The children represented Saltergate School impeccably and were a credit to us all. Thank you to the parents who kindly volunteered their help on the day.