Welcome to the webpage for Wiltshire Class!

Our teacher is Miss Reynolds and our TA is Mrs Cook!

    

Forest School

Earlier this term, we had a whole class forest school day. We got to explore the forest school area, play some games and learn about wormeries.

Over the course of the day, we were budding chefs, slide builders, construction workers, tree climbers and risk takers.

We all had lots of fun and enjoyed sharing our experiences with each other. We learnt about the things worms need in their homes, before digging for forms and creating wormeries for them. Afterwards, we let them back out into their natural habitat.

‘I loved cooking mud pie and pasta’.

‘We dug for different worms and used the mud for their home.’

‘In the forest area, we created our own slide and kept trying to slide down it.’

‘We built a den for animals to keep warm in.’

We can’t wait for our next forest school day next term!

Creative Curriculum

This term, we have been learning all about extreme environments. We started by learning ‘how fossils are formed’, where we created our own fossils.

‘The animal dies and falls to the bottom of the sea bed.’

‘Layers of mud and sand cover the animal.’

‘Over millions of years, layers build up and only the bones remain.’

‘In the end, the rock disappears and the fossil is left to be found.’

We learnt about Mary Anning through the story Stone Girl, Bone Girl and then wrote our own discovery stories using this structure.

In Art, we learnt about different sketch pencils and talked about how they are similar and different to charcoal. Look at our fossil art work.

We moved onto our Geography learning, where we looked at the layers of the Earth, volcanoes and Earthquakes.

We created the different layers of the Earth using play dough, discussing their names and what they are made up of.

‘The inner core is solid but the outer core is liquid.’

‘The mantle is really thick.’

‘We live on the crust and it has ocean and land on it.’

To finish off the term, we wrote volcano poems and then looked at performance poetry, before performing our poems to our classmates.