Half term information Spring 2 2025
In Topic this half term, we travelled to the past once more. This time, we visited Scutari in 1854, following the trail of Florence Nightingale and her team of nurses. We studied Florence’s early life and wrote character descriptions of her. We discussed means of transport of the time and were amazed to discover it took two weeks to travel across Europe to the Crimea! We wrote letters from Florence’s perspective, to her sister, explaining the terrible conditions she discovered when she got there. On our wow day, we learnt about another nurse of the time (Mary Seacole) and made a potion medicine just like she did, role played first aid, and made delicious vegetable soup!
In Music, we have been following the unit ‘Moving and Grooving’. We have loved listening to music, feeling the pulse and joining in with instruments!
In Art, we honed our colour skills through painting, sketching and pastels. We also experimented with different tones of grey scale, using a variety of mediums including: sketching pencils, chalk and charcoal, and pastels. Our subjects included flower petal shading, leaf pattern painting and studying the artist: William Morris.
In Science, we have been studying living things. We conducted our own Science investigation in the classroom by putting tissue paper into dyed water and watching it soak up – just like a planting taking in water and nutrients through the stem.
In RE this half term, we have been learning about the Muslim celebrations of Ramadan and Eid. We studied why these celebrations are important to people of the Muslim faith and how they are celebrate
Children’s comments about their learning:
“The medicine making is like magic!”
“I can’t wait to tell you about my own Eid celebration.”
Useful website links to continue learning at home:
https://www.letterjoin.co.uk/ (username: lj2478 password: home)
https://numbots.com/
https://ttrockstars.com/
www.purplemash.com
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/maths-games/daily10
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com