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Nursery shall remember them.
Nursery have been thinking about Remembrance Day this past week to honour our British Values. The children have learnt about what a poppy is and why we wear poppies; to remember and honour the fallen, the veterans and the serving soldiers and armed forces around the world. Here’s our contribution… Just look at our beautiful work!
Expert Den Building Visitor.
Nursery had a great time building bear caves as part of our expedition on How we care for the bears. We all used great listening, teamwork and problem solving skills as we constructed bear dens in small groups. We tested our bear dens suitability for shelter by mimicking the weather using a watering can for rain and blowing on the dens for wind. We were very proud peacocks!
Sharing our Stories: 11/11/2022
Here’s a selection of beautiful work from across the XP Trust this week!
To read about other stories from across the XP Trust, visit http://xptrust.org/stories
Expert Visitors
We’ve enjoyed a special performance of ‘Mouse and Bear’ from the concerteenies. The children enjoyed joining in with the catchy songs 🎵 😊
We’ve also had a great time building dens with Chris this week. The children worked so well as a team and they created some amazing dens. Their happy faces brightened our day…
Being scientists this week
Class 4 looked at a variety of everyday materials, sorted them on the basis of their physical properties. We used scientific vocabulary to describe the properties of materials. Then, we used different materials to build our castles, made predictions and tested the castles to find out which material would be best to survive in wind and when exposed to water.
Exploring materials and their properties
We then used different materials to build castles so that we could predict and test what happens to the materials when they are exposed to wind and rain:
We labelled the properties of the materials before deciding which materials would be the best to use.
Building Bear Caves
Today we had great fun building dens that we imagined were caves for bears – just like the one in our key text We’re Going on a Bear Hunt. Our visiting expert Chris demonstrated to the children the skills they needed to use and then set them off to work in three teams. The children worked collaboratively using garden canes, tie wraps, tarpaulin and stretchy tubes to create their caves. They were so engaged, enthusiastic and really enjoyed the physical challenge of building something together… even in the pouring rain!
We’re looking for Teachers at Norton Juniors and Carcroft!
We are scientists!
We have been investigating materials to find out which one would be best to build a castle. In crew we worked together to build castles out of paper, fabric, plastic and wood. We then tested them against wind and water.
We wrote letters to the knights to let them know the results of our investigations so that they could build the most secure castles to keep them safe from the big, bad dragon!
