Welcome to Willow Class 2024- 2025

Tuesday 24th September - ALNWICK CASTLE. 

To begin the children learnt about all the defensive features of a Barbican. They split into England and Scotland and tried to storm the castle. After this they did threre activities throughout the day; exploring the sttae rooms where the Percy Family live, learning about the history and defensive features of the castle and having fun ihn the knight's and dragon's quest - learning  about medival life. 

Friday 27th September - EUROPEAN LANGUAGES DAY

Each year we celebrate EDL focussing on a different European country each time. Following on from this year's olympics in Paris we looked at France. During the day the children learnt about the country, it's traditions and customs. They learnt a tradiitonal French dance and tasted a range of french cuisine. They listened to a animated traditional tale in french and played a snap game to practice thier numbers to 10. 

Friday 22nd November - Sunderland Glass Centre

To enhance our 'Feel the Force' topic this term, the children travelled to Sunderland Glass Centre. Prior to going, they learnt in Geography about it's location and heritage producing glass and talked to a local glass artist to build knowledge of how art work can be created using glass. In the morning, they completed a range of science experiments based around reversible and irreversible changes. Before lunch they watched a wonderful glass blowing demonstration and the spent the afternoon designing and making their own fused glass tile. 

Spring Term - Creative Carousel 

As part of our cool world topic, the children did a range of creative tasks to enhance the curriculum. Over three weeks they took it in turns to design and make an insulating mug (reinforcing their scientific knowledge), creating and then painting thier own arctic inspired fridge magnet and using seasonal ingredients to prepare and taste different soups. 

Thursday 6th March - World Book Day 

To celebrate World Book Day, we had a visiiting author in, Louise Dodds, who shared one of her boks and did a lovely craft with the children. In the afternoon, the class were very excited to go to Early Years and read to them their own stories they had written. tghis had been a whole term's project; written in English, typed up and edited in computing and the pop up techniques created in DT. They had a great time. 

Thursday 15th May  - Centre for Life 

To reinforce our space topic we went to the Centre for life. Whilst there, we did a variety of workshops including training as an astronaut and exploring the planets and night skies in the planetarium. In addition to this, the children had the chance to watch a science show and explore the many exhibits that are at the life centre such as the wow zone (full of amazing forces in action), space zone (which inlcudes a model control room and international space station ) and a creative zone.