Year 1 - Spring Term

This half term Badger class have been learning all about plants using Percy the Park Keeper as our focus.

In maths we have been looking at our number bonds to 20 and the properties of 3D shapes.

In English we have been designing a new park for Percy and looking at the difference between fiction and non-fiction books.

We had a lovely few weeks at St Swithuns sketching trees and creating some beautiful art work.

                                

We also had a wonderful World Book Day where we got the chance to dress up as our favourite book character and do some lovely reading related activities.

Year 5 - St Swithun's Art

At St Swithun's we really enjoyed the first lesson which was making yourself out of paper. This let us show our personality and Mrs Ross (our teacher) enabled us to have more freedom to make it our own. We really appreciated the older students from St Swithun's who were there to help us throughout the lessons.  

In the next lesson we started by sketching a picture of an important building in Winchester including the library, the cathedral and many more. After we had done a rough sketch of the building we were using, we collaged some of the main parts. This included windows and pillars using tissue paper and sugar paper.

The next lesson was about John Piper but first we added to our sketches by going over them in black pen first. Then we looked at the style of John Piper and found out that he drew buildings during the time of the War and identified the colours that were often merged to make sad colours. This enabled us to use the same colour scheme to improve our picture and they turned out to look very similar to his amazing art.

The last lesson started by watching Miss Ross giving an example of sketching a skyscraper and making it your own. The class enjoyed this lesson but were sad that it was the last.

By Reuben and William 

Living Rainforest Trip

On Wednesday 28^th March Hedgehog class went to the Living Rainforest. We had a fantastic day and saw lots of different rainforest animals including an armadillo, poisonous dart frogs and a bird eating spider. We went on a tour around the rainforest and learnt lots of new facts about animal and plant adaptation.

Year 6 - School Magazine

Some of our year 6 pupils have formed a Publishers Group and are looking at producing a School magazine.

Please have a look at our first Edition!

Forest School

Once again we are enjoying Forest School. Building dens, making fires and playing in the woods. We have especially enjoyed taking part in different craft activities like web making, wand making and raft building.

African Drums

Year 4 have been learning to play African Drums with the Hampshire Music Service. We ended our course with a performance to the parents.

Year 4 Roman Palace Trip

In February Year 4 went to Fishbourne Roman Palace. We took part in a variety of workshop activities including dressing up, bridge building and mosaic making.

Butser Ancient Farm Visit

On Wednesday Woodpeckers Class visited Butser Ancient Farm near Waterlooville.  We are studying the Stone Age.  We did lots of really exciting activities.  We were archaeologists and dug up bones and flint, we made cordage items that we could use as a bookmark or a tag for our coats, we also did some chalk carving, and made a wattle fence.  We had two really lovely instructors for the day – Chris and Emily.  It was a really fun day!

By Poppy and Vicky.

Squirrels in the Snow!

Squirrels had great fun in the snow. First we put on our coats, wellies and waterproof trousers. We talked about how to play safely because some areas might be icy which would make it slippery.  Straight away some children made snow angels. Then we all had a snowball fight, lots of children wanted to hit Mrs Homewood with a snowball!!!

After that we made snow men. It was hard work pushing the balls of snow when they had got bigger. The children talked about their size and weight as they played. Lots of children wanted to make an 'enormous snowball'. Freya Smith really persevered pushing her snowball. Some children came and helped her. Edward found sticks to be the arms of his snowman. The children used stones for the eyes and mouth. Some even lent their snowmen their hats! Eve made a snow dog which she could ride on. 

After a little while some children wanted to go inside to warm up, the rest went with Mrs Homewood for a snowy walk to forest school. It was exciting walking through the woods as the snow was quite deep. We found some tracks in the snow. Layla thought that they may have been made by a cat. We discovered that the snow on the big field had started to melt and the children thought this was because of the sun making it warm. We explored how the sound of the snow was different as we walked on it depending on how much had melted. Layla described it as 'slushy'.