For our community visit this week we visited Grasmere Garden Centre to buy some plants for our secondary area at school. We looked around at all of the different plants and throughout about the ones that we like. We also had to consider the price as we had a class budget. Once we had selected plants we took them to the cashier and paid for our items.

Then, when we are back at school, we went to the secondary area plant pots to plant them. First we got rid of the weeds that had built up over the winter, cleared the soil and put our flowers in. Then we gave them a good water so that they would establish over the next few weeks.

Our knowledge of the seven continents is massively improving as the weeks go by. It is fantastic to see so much new knowledge that they are learning each lesson. We have names the continents and placed them in the correct place on the map, discussed which are hot places and which ones are cold based on their location to the equator. We then used this knowledge to look at the world map in the corridor to plan our next dream holiday!

Our maths work has really flourished this term. We are working on embedding our maths skills that we have learnt throughout the year. We have used practical apparatus to represent numbers and then applied this to written maths.

As part of the VE celebrations we visited the National Memorial Arboretum. It was a wonderful opportunity to see the memorials from different areas of the armed forces in memory of different wars. We were all really respectful as we walked around the site.

On Thursday we remembered those that fought in the war and their bravery. It has been 80 years since the end of the war in Europe. We celebrated like those in the past at the end of the war by making a Victoria sandwich cake, wartime cake and jam sandwiches. We celebrated together by having a street party out on the secondary playground. We painted flags to use at the celebrations.

In geography this week we have been learning about the continents of the world. To start to learn where these are located we used hoops to represent the seven continents. We then played a game to run to the continents. We also learn that the countries closest to the equator are the hottest and furthest away they are cold.

There have been new plants planted at school and we want them to look really beautiful. As it’s warm we need to water these plants regularly so they don’t dry out. We filled up the watering cans to give the plants lots of water. We then collected litter around the area to ensure that the environment looks nice and we care for the plants and animals that share the environment with us.

For the past couple of weeks we have been learning how to play a game similar to cricket. The game of baseball involves hitting 5 balls off the target with the cricket bat. The fielding team then have to collect all of the balls. The quicker the fielding team do this the less runs the batting team make.

This is the first week of our new brilliant breakfast club. It has been wonderful spending time together first thing in the morning. We have jazz music on in the background to create a relaxing atmosphere. We have then enjoyed cereal and toast before we start our learning. We have even learnt how to do the washing up! These are amazing life skills.

Then at snack time we have brought in healthy fruit from home rather than our usual crisps and chocolate. Pupils have been so positive with this move and have actually enjoyed only eating the food.