'Easter Holidays'

Week 2

Although this week should have been part of the Easter holidays, some staff and a few pupils have been in school. 

Monday

Today we had loads of fun and spent a lot of time outside in the sunshine. We went outside and were playing on the bikes. We then designed some paper aeroplanes and coloured them in. We used our paper planes to aim for different targets. After that we did an Easter hunt around the forest school and playground areas and solved lots of Easter puzzle clues. At lunchtime, we did some chalk pictures. After then we went down the ramp on the wiggle boards, which was amazing fun. We also played with the frizbees.

Tuesday

Today has been a great day spent much more outdoors than in. We began the day by playing and experimenting with the different kind of bikes and trikes and how we can pedal and steer these. We then spent all morning in the forest area, exploring the different kinds of trees, using the hammock and even digging in the earth to find the different textures. We played on the playground after having our lunch and spent some time on the field, using different items from Opal Play to change and improve our den in the field.

Wednesday

Today we were once again blessed with beautiful weather! We began the morning in the forest school area. We used the clay to create some amazing designs. We will be painting them next week.

As well as this, we also used some paper and wax crayons to do some bark rubbings. They looked amazing!

Later in the morning, we played on the scooters and bikes in the playground and took advantage of all the space. Some of the teachers even wanted to have a go!

After this, we came up with a marvellous idea – to build a den! We used the tyres and wooden pallets and created a castle. Next door to the castle, we created a house and found teddies in the Opal play shed to occupy it. We used our imaginations and placed any teachers who forgot the password in our castle jail!

We ate our lunch outside in our new home (the castle!) We spent some more time in the forest school area. We climbed, built and enjoyed spending time outside. When we got tired of this, we came inside to make use of the shade and the school iPads. 

Thursday

Today we started with Doodle Maths on the iPads and a little bit of colouring. Then we started to build a garage with ramps and a pulley – we even made a rope!

After all that hard work we had snack and went outside for a play. We had free play and then started to do vehicle racing on the sloped playground. We raced our bikes and scooters as fast as we could.

Then we found the dressing up box. Soairse was our Queen of the castle (our den we had built) – we also had a special password to get in the castle. We made some food and landscaped the gardens – the Queen didn’t think much of our cooking!

Then we came in for lunch and a rest.

We went to Forest School and made some beautiful ceramic tiles of things that make us happy – we had an ice cream van, a happy smile, a dog, a house and rainbow patterns. We were excited to take them home. They also dug holes for animals to live in, enjoyed climbing trees and chilling in the hammock.

We measured the playground to see how long it was with a trundle wheel – 57m! Mrs White ran the length twice to see how long it took her – 24 seconds – 114m. She’ll have to get quicker to catch Usain Bolt! Saoirse was the winner at 22 seconds. 

Friday

Today we started with some reading before riding scooters around the playground. As the sun was out, we then played with the tyres and pallets to build dens.  After eating a quick snack, Mrs Bashford showed us how to make turtles from different circles.

For playtime we went over to the forest area to climb and look at the new trees growing. After this, Mrs Adlam played a game called ‘What goes where?’ We had 6 cards each with a noun on. Mrs Adlam read out a descriptive sentence and we had to work out which noun it was describing. The person who matched 4 descriptions to each of their 6 nouns won.

Next we looked at density. We first looked at syrup and olive oil and decided that syrup would be denser so would sink to the bottom and the oil would rest on top of it. Then we poured in blue water. What we found surprising was that the water went through the oil and rested above the syrup. After that, we tried to find objects that would float in each layer. A lego brick sunk through the oil but floated on the water.

In the afternoon, we played with the Opal equipment, making a den which we guarded with our swords! When it began to rain, we went inside and watched a movie.

We spent some time on the iPads completing DoodleMaths targets before going home.