World Book Day

For world book day the children were very excited to take part in a broad range of reading challenges across the school. The children built dens to read in, made a musical soundtrack for a book, read books in fancy dress costumes, completed a reading treasure hunt to unlock the treasure chest as well as read and recreated a revolting recipe. The children were also very lucky to have the author Jane Newberry visit them to talk part in an interactive and engaging rhyme workshop. The children got to use lots of exciting props as she told rhymes from her book 'Big Green Crocodile'. There were big smiles all round from the children and lots of them returned back to the class saying 'This is the best day ever!'. We hope the children continue this enthusiasm for books and reading at home.

The Explorer Dome 

The children in Red classes had a very exciting visit from the Explorer Dome.  After crawling through a dark tunnel, they entered the enormous dome where they watched a multi-sensory show about planet Earth containing lights, sounds, smells and even a bit of ice and rain! They were told about some of the environments, habitats and animals that live on our planet. Can your child tell you something exciting that they learnt about in the Explorer Dome? What did they see? What did they smell?  Maybe they can remember something about the rainforest or the desert? Can they tell you the types of animals that live in very cold places and how they stay warm? It was a fun and fascinating experience for all. 

Here are a few quotes from the children:

“The North Pole is very cold.”

“The desert is very hot and very dry.”

“It’s wet in the rainforest and very hot.”

“About all the rubbish. It was very stinky.”

“Penguins live on the ice.”

“There was a camel in the desert.”

“Penguins live at the South Pole.”

“I remember scorpions live in the desert and they sleep until it’s night time. They wake up when it’s dark. They’re nocturnal. I enjoyed being the seal.”

“I loved the snow and getting wet in the rain."

"There were so many trees in the rainforest."