NEWS & EVENTS BLOG

<p>All St Lawrence&#8217;s children were given the opportunity to be selected as either School Councillors or Eco Squad members. After a tight vote, our new members were elected. They are excited about new their roles and are looking forward to doing great things in our school!</p>

<p>We have been observing plants as part of Science in Year 1. After looking closely at the plants around our school grounds, we decided to go foraging and made striking sculptures using leaves, grass, twigs, daisies and buttercups.</p>

<p>We have been observing plants as part of Science in Year 1. After looking closely at the plants around our school grounds, we decided to go foraging and made striking sculptures using leaves, grass, twigs, daisies and buttercups.</p>

<p>We had such a great day when Oscar visited us from the &#8216;Nature Detectives&#8217;. We went outside to explore the changes that take place around our school in the season of Autumn. As we explored, we noticed the changes in the trees as well as the different mini beasts living in our school grounds.</p>

<p>We had such a great day when Oscar visited us from the &#8216;Nature Detectives&#8217;. We went outside to explore the changes that take place around our school in the season of Autumn. As we explored, we noticed the changes in the trees as well as the different mini beasts living in our school grounds.</p>

<p>Today we were visited by Rob from Zoolab. Rob brought different types of animals so that we could understand further how to group them into categories e.g. mammals, reptiles, amphibians etc. He also talked about what the animals eat, using the vocabulary carnivore, herbivore and omnivore herbivore omnivore. What an exciting afternoon! &nbsp;</p>

<p>Today we were visited by Rob from Zoolab. Rob brought different types of animals so that we could understand further how to group them into categories e.g. mammals, reptiles, amphibians etc. He also talked about what the animals eat, using the vocabulary carnivore, herbivore and omnivore herbivore omnivore. What an exciting afternoon! &nbsp;</p>

<p>As a class we talked about different habitats across the globe (desert, mountains, ocean, river, countryside etc) and which species was causing the most problems for other animals – humans! We talked about how in particular our demands for food and computer technology, such as mobile phones or games consoles, has led to huge areas [&hellip;]</p>

<p>&nbsp; In our last forest school session for the year, Year 5 Nurture Group brought together many of the skills they have been learning this year: whittling skills, campfire building and campfire lighting. The children are now so skilled that they needed minimal input from Mrs. Villalobos and they independently built a campfire, correctly layering [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We had two very cute and fluffy chicks join our classroom this week. It was lovely to see how they had developed in such a short time since hatching! We each had a chance to handle and stroke them and ask questions about their development.</p>

<p>We had two very cute and fluffy chicks join our classroom this week. It was lovely to see how they had developed in such a short time since hatching! We each had a chance to handle and stroke them and ask questions about their development.</p>

<p>To mark Children&#8217;s Mental Health week, we celebrated, &#8216;Dress to Express&#8217; day in school. The children were given an opportunity to wear clothes to express their personalities. Some wore clothes they would wear every day, some dressed in fancy dress and we even had our very own Michael Jackson! In addition to this, they did [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Year 1 had a fabulous trip to the Rising Sun Country Park. We started our day looking at signs of Winter and Spring and then went on the do a mini-beast hunt. We put the mini beasts we found into special viewing pots and were careful to put the minibeasts back where we found them [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unfortunately it was one group&#8217;s last session at Forest School this week. We have had a wonderful time over the last couple of months. We have learnt how to tree climb safely, how to build dens, done nature art, learnt how to safely light a camp fire and put it out, and best of all [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Unfortunately it was one group&#8217;s last session at Forest School this week. We have had a wonderful time over the last couple of months. We have learnt how to tree climb safely, how to build dens, done nature art, learnt how to safely light a camp fire and put it out, and best of all [&hellip;]</p>

<p>We went to St. Lawrence&#8217;s Park last week to help with spring bulb planting. We met the park rangers who gave us lots of interesting information about the creatures we found and how the spring flowers attract pollinators. Hopefully in spring next year we will see a beautiful bank of flowers thanks to our efforts!</p>

<p>Another group has started at Forest School this week. We learnt about the rules of Forest School; look after ourselves, look after each other and look after nature. We made a bracelet with 3 colours to remind ourselves of the rules. We then went off into the woods to explore and discover. We found some [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Last half term, Year 5 Nurture Group went to Scotswood Community Garden to take part in Forest School sessions each week We learnt how to construct dens, how to tree climb safely, how to use sheath knives to whittle and we also cooked up some interesting recipes in the mud kitchen!!    .</p>

<p>The children ended their first half term on Friday with a fun PE session with Mr Stevenson. They played lots of Parachute games with lots of fun had by all!</p>

<p>This week, Year 4 Nurture Group have been working with local gardeners to plant Spring bulbs in the Key Stage 1 and Reception garden. Whilst planting snowdrops, the children were learning about the different parts of a plant and their functions. We were blessed with beautiful sunshine! &nbsp;</p>