Ospreys

Hello and welcome back to our Ospreys blog!

We have been very busy this term. Firstly, in Numeracy we have been using arrays to help us with our multiplication sums. In topic we have been learning about Victorians, looking at the differences between then and now. As a class we spoke about Remembrance Sunday and wrote our poppy poems. In PE, we have been working on body movements and practising some of our amazing gymnastic moves. We have also really enjoyed swimming, cooking and of course choosing! We have started to prepare for our Christmas video based on The Snowman and we are all very excited!

Wow! What a trip for our year 6’s!

Avon Tyrrell 2023 did not disappoint – all of the children were on their best behaviour and did the school proud. Watch this video to see how we go on on the trip (it’s a long one but definitely worth the watch, we promise). The children participated in archery, a high ropes course and canoeing and we ended the day with a McDonalds tea. It has been an absolute pleasure working with our year 6’s this year and we will miss them all lots, we wish them well for all the exciting things to come their way on their next big adventure!

Ospreys

Our topic for this half term has been ‘animals and their habitats’. Here is a piece of work from earlier in the week by a pupil where their focus was to ‘begin to create a non fiction report on facts collected’, trying to follow the writing structure of heading, introduction, main body of text. Hope you enjoy finding out more about turtles from this piece of work!

]———————Finding about the History of Turtles———————-[
Sources: Wikipedia (Standby, if needed. Probably not.), and MOSTLY from one of my earlier projects
—–by: someone I guess——————————————————–

Sect. 1: About turtles
First, starting with the largest living turtle, it is 8ft 10in and 500kg/1,100lb, and the smallest is 10cm and 172g/6.1oz. Next, it is a reptile that likes to eat crab, seaweed and other food. Its predators are racoons, opossums, sharks, etc.

Sect. 2: Life cycle of a turtle
First, they begin in their eggs. Some sea turtles lay their eggs bury them in the sea, although most females lay their eggs in sand or dirt and bury them. Next, they emerge out of their eggs, usually around 2 to 3 months. The shell is pliable but leathery and requires them to break through with a protrusion on their nose called an “egg tooth”. Then, when they’re an adult, they live on land or in the water, but they do emerge every once in a while for air, because they have lungs, not gills, like a fish has. When it is time to breed, the male courts the female by either; rubbing up against her, or the male nods his head up and down.

Sect. 3: Facts now. (yay :D)
Turtles grow at a very slow rate, but time does not take a toll on their bodies.
[That’s it.]

Sect. 4: THE END!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [finally]
Well it’s the end! TIME TO relax ;O

/Index; the index of every section [to be completed]

First our new topic is about animals. In our lesson on Wednesday we learnt about what living things do; like breathing, nutrition and other things that living things do for them to survive, and we also wrote about living and not-living things.

Next, Millers Ark Farm visited our school on Wednesday with donkeys, pigs and other animals. Ospreys’ turn was from 11:30 to 11:50, so we had 20 minutes to go around and stroke the animals. We also made some rules when being around the animals, like for example; don’t sit on the animals, and other rules.

And then, on Friday, we dressed up for World Book Day in either costumes, home clothes or just school clothes. One of ours even dressed up as Wednesday Addams! And a usual on a Friday, we had afternoon Golden time, which means after colouring, we do extended choosing!!

And finally, in RE we did a Spring hunt, we found some bluebell shoots, elderberry growing on the trees, bird song, and other things that marked that spring is coming!

The children really enjoyed the visit from Millers Farm this morning. They enjoyed seeing the donkeys, pigs, goats and sheep. Before viewing the farm the children came up with a list of ‘farm rules’ for them to remember when interacting with the animals. They all were very thoughtful and took great care thinking of rules to support the animals and themselves. The farm visit has supported discussions around our science focus of animals and their habitats.

On Monday, Shepherds Down School were lucky enough to have a visit from a vet and a Therapy Dog named Jessie (owned by one of our SD staff!) All the different classes had different slots in the hall for their visit to learn a little bit more about our four-legged friends and how to take care of them. Apologies in advance if you have all had requests for pet dogs this week.

The children had the option to stroke the dog – and also had the choice of giving Jessie a hard dog treat or licking some cream cheese off the children’s hands – lots of children chose the latter and were very good at tolerating the wet textures!

After a brief break Ospreys are back with some more blog content. Starting off with a blog written earlier in the year by one of our pupils.

—–I am writing this kind of for the Ospreys class blog. Thanks then.——-

(text starts below the empty line below this…………)

Hello, I am a pupil, in Ospreys class as a Year 5 student. It hasn’t been too long since 2023 started (as of when this was typed.)……woohoo. Anyways we have been talking about our Christmas presents after the Christmas holidays, and the weather hasn’t been too bad, but we have had quite a lot of rain and wind, so yeah, bad rain…

So I have got a new TV, some new books and a drawing book for Christmas. I don’t know why the Christmas holidays have gone so quick….ehhh nevermind. Over the Christmas holidays we haven’t had a lot of snow, so it’s been a mostly-no snow period. (and this bit is now in italic…whoops.)

And also I go to Sparrows class to play with a friend to play games like: Hungry Hippos, Pop-up Pirate and others, etc. (I keep using too many fonts, aaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

While the Christmas holidays have gone quick, going back to school has been not too bad, although it has been a bit bumpy. Anyways I hope 2023 should be a nice year…unlike what 2021 and 2020 have been, but 2022 has been ok.

For Maths we did boot prints and measured them using bricks

We made owls on toast and we had some fun playing games and making animal houses with bricks

We celebrated Williams birthday

See you all after Half term.

We have had a fun filled week.

Looked some more at Space.

And it was Wendy’s birthday