This term our topic has been 'What a wonderful world!'

We have been learning about local habitats and the organisms that live there. Literacy, science, art and design & technology have been taught under this over-arching theme, whereas R.E., Maths and P.E. have been taught separately.

In science we have had the opportunity to do lots of outdoor learning. One week we explored the school grounds and collected lots of different kinds of leaves. Back in the classroom we then identified the different kinds of trees from these leaves using a key. We made leaf rubbings and watercolour paintings of these varied leaves. In the school nature reserve we found woodlice, worms and slugs under rocks, as well as water snails and mayfly-nymphs in the pond. We took these minibeasts back to the classroom and examined them under microscopes.

In art we created a variety of minibeasts out of clay, and butterflies and snails out of wire and tissue paper.

Further outdoor learning took place with the Northmoor Trust at Wittenham Clumps. We explored the different habitats around the area and thought about the different kinds of creatures that would live there such as foxes, badgers, hedgehogs, moles and rabbits. We also explored the Northmoor Trust Learning Centre and learnt about food chains and food webs.

In literacy we have been looking at the stories of The Wind in the Willows and Fantastic Mr Fox and have used these as a basis for writing our own short stories set in a forest, with animals as the main characters.