Today Year 2 travelled to the Sir Roger Bannister running track at Iffley Road, which was where Sir Roger famously broke the four-minute-mile. We were met by Tony and Emma, two coaches from headington Road Runners, who put us all … Continued
Back in November we were given the opportunity to run an Antarctic flag design competition as part of the Antarctica Day 2017 celebrations. The winning design from each class was sent with a real scientist to Antarctica, where they were … Continued
This week we have done lots of practical maths around capacity/volume and temperature. We have solved problems about volume, used water to explore the capacity of different containers and used a range of different thermometers to measure temperatures both inside and … Continued
We really enjoyed having a football skills session with Mr French this week. The children all worked very hard and showed a good sense of fair play. As well as playing some football games (like cat and mouse) the children … Continued
Today half of the class have been at forest school- truly wild learning! The other half of the class have been working with me looking at the different habitats that invertebrates like, and we have designed suitable bug homes for … Continued
Today we went outside and laid down in the warm sunshine on the astroturf. We watched the clouds scoot by and saw all sorts of birds- including a very brief view of a swallow swooping overhead. A cloud went overhead … Continued
Today we amalgamated our #30DaysWild activity with some computing! We needed to learn about branching databases, so we learned how we can use them to identify the different types of insects and other invertebrates living in our school habitat. We … Continued
Today we had a great surprise when we arrived at school- Mrs Barker had borrowed a moth trap and had left it set up overnight! We had lots of different moths to look at in the trap. The trap works … Continued
Today we spent just 4 minutes picking up litter on the backfield after breaktime. We thought that the field had looked very clean, but actually, we found a lot of small pieces of rubbish. Lots of it was plastic too. … Continued
12th June: Sharing our finds, feather and egg identification There was lots of wildness in Cole Class today! Firstly, half of the class went to forest school this morning, while the other half learnt about the things that all living things … Continued