Year 1 at Hilliers

Yesterday Robins were lucky enough to go on a trip to Hilliers Gardens.  The weather was absolutely perfect for the day. We were all very excited first thing and the excitement continued throughout the day.
We learnt about growing, acting as seeds beginning the growing process, we had to stamp our roots into the ground and suck up the water. We were then visited by Beatrice the bee who collected the nectar to make her honey.  We also learnt about cross pollination.

From this we then learnt all about seed survival.  In this we followed a trail and at points had to loose seeds because of things like disease, mice eating the seed and seedlings being trampled.
After the trail we went on a walk through the gardens, finding different seeds that had been dropped by the trees.  We opened the pods to find out just how small the seeds were. We then looked through a range of colour filters to understand how bees see the world around us.  We looked through: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

Can you guess which colour the bees see?
Just before lunch we went on a trail through the gardens, we went through the bamboo gardens, we felt the stem of the bamboo and talked about how it felt.  It was very different to a normal tree bark, it felt like a pipe and was cold to the touch.

We stopped by the pond and looked at the fish that we could see.

After lunch was the best bit of fun, we did pond dipping and then explored the sensory garden and made smelly sticky bugs, picking out smells that interested us.  Well done Robins, we had a very successful day and learnt lots about growing of plants and what can happen to prevent the plants from growing.

Lots of fun in Kingfisher class!

We have been very busy looking after our pet caterpillars! We were very lucky to watch them eat, spin silk and grow bigger! They then hung upside down and harden into chrysalides. We were then very excited to come into school to see that they had transformed into beautiful butterflies! We watched them for a day and gave them some fresh fruit to eat. We then released them!

We have also been busy this week learning about our new topic 'Underwater Worlds', we particularly like the Aquarium role-play!

Kingfishers at the Hawthorns

Kingfishers enjoyed an education trip last week. They were finding out about how squirrels survive the winter by planting their own stash of food to find later. They played a woolly worm game to see how mini-beasts and other woodland creatures camouflage themselves and took a woodland walk to identify other mini-beasts in the environment.

     

Kestrels get creative for the Royal Wedding!

Kestrels have enjoyed a chance to get creative today, designing Royal Wedding souvenir plates, making plates or bowls out of clay using a coil technique and drawing posters which celebrated all their positive personality traits, skills and talents which the SATs this week have not tested!  Well done Kestrels. 

Owls Create the United Nations!

Owls class have an amazing morning recreating the UN and adding 5 articles to our convention!

They came in dressed for the part and argued some very mature subjects in a clear and eloquent way. We are all so proud of everything they have achieved this half term! Each child was given the chance to represent their own country and was able to vote on each of the articles put forward. We all signed our names in agreement to follow the rights we came up with.

We did it!

A massive well done to everyone in Kestrels for completing their SATs today!  They have been fantastic all week and have approached every day and every test with a positive attitude; have given their very best and shown they are 'learning to be the best they can be!'  All the Year 6 team are really proud of them! Well done Kestrels!

Big Day In! - Free autism friendly event

A free event is being held on Saturday 19th May for members, families and friends of Asperger Adventures.  For more details, please click on the link: Big Day In event