Blog Author: Bev Brown

Park Fell have been carefully looking after some eggs as part of their new life topic - today it was extremely exciting as one of them has starting to crack! We will keep you posted once our first chick arrives. 

Today Park Fell continued to think about frogs and how they produce new life. We looked at the lifecycle and made our own ‘fake’ pond with frogspawn, tadpoles, froglets and frogs to explore the cycle through play. We painted frogs after looking at patterns on some and then had a visit to…

Park Fell really enjoyed visiting Fairhill to do a spot of pond dipping today. 

Park Fell enjoyed a visit to Hole House Farm today, they saw some different lambs of different ages and even fed a pet one. They helped to spread the straw around the shed and  then saw the geese and their eggs. Great learning about new life and a fantastic way to bring learning to…

Bean plants

In science today we have been learning about how to identify and classify and decide if an animal is a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore.
We sorted the animals carefully then looked at a rather strange container full of animal poo (playdough!!) we had to guess what the animal diet was.
We had…

Park Fell have had a Giant visit the classroom! The children think he has left his slippers. Jack also sent us a letter asking us to grow him a beanstalk. Park Fell talked about what plants need to grow and wondered if they need soil to grow. So they have started an experiment, they hope to find…

We have had a super day in school today, we have had great fun making houses based on the book 'What we'll build' by Oliver Jeffers.

It was lovely to see the children getting creative and working together to create a range of houses using a range of resources from large scale boxes to Lego :-)…