A good fun musical week and Mrs Thwaites first day back (written by the children)

As part of our topic, a vet came into the classroom to tell us about the work that they do looking after animals and making them better. We dressed up as a vet and looked after an elephant - not a real one of course!




This is the composer Prokofiev, he is famous. He does the music for Peter and the Wolf. Somebody who writes music is called a 'composer'. Peter and the Wolf is a piece of music with some characters: Peter, a wolf, Sonia the Duck, a bird, a cat and grandpa. The music is the voices of the characters.




Here we are lying down with our eyes closed and listening to the music and thinking about the characters using our imaginations.

We had Mrs Thwaites teaching us on Thursday. Here we are writing short stories and using musical instruments for the animal characters. We were very good at this.

Here we are playing our instruments and writing our stories.

Here is a short video of one of the groups telling their story and playing the instruments.

We hope that Mrs Thwaites had a lovely first day back with Year One.

Down on the Farm...

In our ICT lessons, we have been making slide shows of the life-cycle of frogs.We took it in turns with our ICT partners to draw the stages of a frog's life; beginning with spawn, then tadpoles, tadpoles with legs and finally frogs. It's great fun to turn our pictures into fast moving slide shows. Miss Welton is very impressed at how well we can use the computer programmes independently.

We are very good and patient at taking it in turns at the PC and waiting for our partner to finish.

The tadpoles have now been introduced into their new home and seem to be doing very well. We are all fascinated to watch them growing bigger and bigger day by day and we have two children in the class to be tadpole monitors and tell the rest of the class of any further developments. The tadpoles have legs forming now. When their legs develop, they will also develop lungs, which means that they will have to rest above the water to breathe in air.


We have enjoyed working with Year 4 to weed and tidy up the garden beds so that we can sow some seeds. So far, we have planted baby tomato plants and Rocket salad leaves. We will also plant some flowers and hanging baskets and maybe some purple-sprouting broccoli. At the end of every school day, the Helping Hands in Year One must remember to water the beds well.

We have been enjoying PE lessons this week. We are practicing our gymnastic skills - balance, weight distribution and throwing. Here we are practicing our under arm throwing. Miss Welton says that we are getting very good and some of us may make The Olympics one day!

Here we are practicing our balancing and coordination skills on the gym apparatus. Miss Welton says that we look like a lot of cheeky monkeys!


We had a fantastic time at the Windmill Hill City Farm. It was a very long walk there, but we were really well behaved and didn't complain. When we got there we split into two groups and were shown around the farm by Beth and Craig the farmer. We met Rosie, the pregnant sow, who is going to have her babies any day now. Craig told us that a mother pig can have as many as 15 baby pigs!!



We met the largest bunny rabbit called Haggrin, he was the size of a small dog! We were allowed to touch all of the animals - the pigmy goats, chickens, chicks, hens and lamb.


We got to look at the baby chicks growing inside of the egg in a dark room with a special red light. It was a very fun and interesting day. After we had had our packed lunch, we were allowed to play in the playground and then it was time for our long walk home.



We have written fantastic Recounts of our farm trip. We have sequenced the events and remembered to use WOW words to make the writing more interesting. When our grown-ups come to look at our work for the Farm topic at the end of term, we know that they will be very proud of the work that we have done.