Blog Author: Bev Brown

Flinty Fell had a great visit to Durham to tour the Botanic Gardens there- a great trip to bring their science and topic learning to life.

We were extremely fortunate to be able to go and watch the Tour of Britain passing through Alston today, it was a real treat to be able to witness first hand a professional race of this scale and we really enjoyed making flags to cheer the riders on. We especially loved it when all of the support…

Exciting news. Over the holidays Park Fell's butterflies emerged from their cocoons. They are beautiful. We will release them tomorrow.

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Our first chick has hatched! We talked about how it hatched and watched a video on you tube before writing a sentence about it. We than made a chicken house outside

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…