On Tuesday 18th and Wednesday 19th we were very pleased to welcome our special visitor: Alison Wright.  Alison’s mother took the Thalidomide drug during her pregnancy and so Alison was born with short arms.  This hasn’t stopped her being a mum, a speaker on disability or a member of the British Paralympic Team.  She told us to live by the words of Winston Churchill and never, never, never give up!

Alison says having short arms just means you have to think ahead and solve problems and that’s what we tried to do when we had a go at tidying up, writing and putting on a sock with our toes!

This morning Year 4 welcomed a Roman from Butser Ancient Farm to kick off our learning unit! We had a wonderful day learning from an expert about the arrival of the Romans, their legacy, as well as teaching us about the power of the Roman Army. We prepared questions and our expert was able to accurately answer them.

We had took part in outstanding workshops to help us with our understanding and to bring our learning alive. The workshops included learning Latin commands, practising marching as the Roman Army, dressing up as a Roman and making our own Roman jewellery.

It was a captivating day which has given us a some fantastic information to use during our learning unit and motivated us to find out more, watch this space….

Wow, Miss Dickinson and Mrs Graham were in for a treat this week when Year 4 came in buzzing with their learning unit homework. They were set the task of creating a campaign to minimise the effects of negative human impact in The New Forest.

The children presented their campaigns confidently and we enjoyed seeing the effort as well as the wide range of presentations.

We enjoyed PowerPoint’s, models of a not and then if we were to drop litter, posters (some even displayed in the forest), email communication to companies, litter picking membership clubs and even a letter with a reply from Councillor Desmond Swayne.

The quality and effort was so amazing we even invited the local press in to find out what we had been up to and what amazing New Forest citizens we can be – keep your eyes peeled for our story in the paper!

On Monday 15th  September excited Year 4 went on a fantastic school trip to the New Forest.

At Bolderwood we investigated positive and negative signs of impact as well as deer spotting!  After lunch we were lucky to visit the fascinating Verderers Court because we wanted to debate about a New Forest complaint.

Lastly we visited the interesting New Forest Museum in Lyndhurst, where we filled in a fact finding quiz and looked through Alice in Wonderland’s looking glass.

Y4 thought it was the best school trip yet and all had a phenomenal day of learning!