When I was planning this trip, people advised me this was an ill-fated year group, who often received a drenching on their outings.

NOT ANY MORE!

How lucky were we: every time it rained we were under cover.  The weather didn’t limit our visit to Marwell Zoo at all.

Even better, many animals (especially the big cats) were active and in close view.  The giraffes were positively skittish, cantering around and meeting up in circles like players before a match.

A big thank you to the children for their exemplary behaviour and a warm thank you to the adult volunteers without whom we wouldn’t have been able to take the children out of school.

We look forward to the next adventure!

Year 3 have explored the world this week in our hook for our topic ‘Around Europe in Six weeks’. We wanted to know which countries they knew by giving them traditional clues as well as edible ones!   They had a go at tasting German sausage, African biltong, baguettes and poppadum, so they were very brave! We were very pleased at how knowledgeable they were with their country names – especially knowing the different flags.

They also had a taster session on rugby this week with the Fordingbridge Rugby club, which they really enjoyed.

A great start to the week Year 3!

Once we found out what the rainforest biome was like, we decided to invent a new creature to live there.

Beware, some of our inventions are dangerous.

Here we are sharing our first descriptions with a partner.

Thank you to Mrs Davies who came in to teach us about the words that describe music.

We learned about pitch, dynamics, rhythm and tempo.

We also used some fantastic new instruments.

Here we are using the SALUT programme to revise the animals we learned in Year 4.

In Year 5 we will be adding jungle animals to our pets and forest animals.

Who said writing wasn’t fun?

 Here we are asking a partner to draw the butterfly we have described.

Some people managed to make butterfly twins while others…let’s just say there were some differences to spot!