Science

This term we have been having great fun exploring animals. As our introductory lesson, we thought of our own ideas about what an animal is then reported back to create a class idea sheet. After watching an information video, we added the new learning onto the sheet but we had so much knowledge without the video 😃

We then started to look in more detail about the types of animals, categorising by the characteristics into the following groups; amphibians, invertebrates, mammals, fish, birds and reptiles.

After grouping the animals, we began looking at the characteristics in order to seek patterns between them. We explored different criteria in which to sort the animals onto Carroll diagrams. Some of us used criteria given and others decided to challenge themselves, using their own.

Religious Education

For our new Buddhist project this term, we all went on a very special journey for our memorable experience.  Esala Perahera, also known as The Festival of the Tooth is a festival held in Kandy, Sri Lanka. We all boarded our flight on Sri Lankan Airlines - some having access to first class - and fastened our seatbelts and off we flew! The flight attendants provided very good service to some quite tricky customers!