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Heritage Day On the 4th of June yr 4,5 and 6 spent the day with their colour teams doing a range of activities in our environment. Getting to know a tree In a mixed year group pair and using a guidance worksheet the children were given 10 minutes to touch, feel, smell and look carefully at a tree they had been given. They then had to think of descriptive words they could use and add adjectives to nouns and adverbs to verbs. They were reminded of what similes and metaphors were and went back to their tree to create some. After a further 10 minutes they returned to the classroom to draft their poem in pairs, trying to use as many of their words as possible. After they had been edited the children wrote out the poem onto a tree shape. The poems were then shared with the whole group.
Team building activities The children were put into small groups and given a range of equipment and a cup of water to carry round the adventure playground. The children had to work as a group to help each other get across the equipment without falling off, dropping any of the equipment or spilling any of the water. Some groups were successful others got very wet!
Earth Walk with Simon West Each of the four house groups were collected together in class four, put into pairs (upper school with lower school) and given a clipboard, pencil, plastic pocket and a piece of card. Simon West walked the house group over to the edge of the woodland and huddled them altogether. He proceeded to tell an assortment of terrifying, comical and gut wrenching stories about strange things that have and could happen in the woods. Once the children had been sufficiently scared and subdued, Simon walked the children through the woodland and into a clearing. He explained that the children had to find their own quiet spot and stand quietly and listen to all the sounds they could hear. They were also required to collect bits of the woodland around that quiet spot that were on the ground (not including the huge amounts of rubbish!). The children were given a small piece of white card and a pencil. On one side they had to draw the sounds that they heard and on the other there was piece of sticky back plastic on to which they could attach their bits of the forest. Each house group behaved well, yellow being the best behaved. At the end of the task, Simon West gathered all of the children together and they talked about their findings and shared ideas for solving the litter problem. Simon finished off with a short story that included tension and creepy happenings that once again silenced the crowd and made for a very quick and quiet walk back to the classroom.
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