We’ve started a trend Year 5! Everyone is talking about moths! Mrs Harvey’s niece’s husband is a park ranger in Dorset and he has recently found and photographed these moths for us. There are some lovely and very rare ones here – thank you very much. One of Mrs Harvey’s friends has also commented on […]
This morning, we were really lucky as Simon (who came into school to talk to us about moths during STEAM Week last week) had collected 4 giant moths for us! We got to look at and hold 2 beautiful pink and green elephant hawk moths, 1 huge privet hawk moth and 1 amazingly shaped poplar […]
In the morning, we attempted to classify the moths found. The children identified many different types but unfortunately, we were unable to create a bar chart from the findings. This is because we discovered that, if classified correctly, there is a huge range of moths species in our school environment. Therefore, we had not gathered enough […]
We had a much better start to our day today as our moth trap was full!!! It was very exciting as we kept exploring further and finding more and more moths. In total, we caught 12! We then found out that something strange had happened in the swale so we went to explore. This is […]
We’ve had a busy day in Year 5 today and the children have all worked really hard. We started the morning with assembly, where children from each year group shared their learning so far. Elliot, Nate and Alfie spoke nice and clearly for Year 5, explaining all about our moth sketches and computer aided designs […]
In assembly this morning, we heard all about Rosie Revere, an engineer who persevered and kept going until her designs and ideas worked. Today, we have adopted her attitude in all of her work and tried our hardest. After assembly, we went down to the swale to carry out a survey of what it already […]
This morning, we were all busily carrying out our morning work when an alarm went off and a message came up on our board telling us to go to the hall. Everyone in the school went down and we found out that we’d been sent a video from some of the animals and creatures who […]