Kewlife 100

YEAR 1 SANDWICH
MAKERS
Year 1 have had fun this half term learning about halves and quarters. For part
of this we used bread, jam and butter. We each took one piece of bread. We
spread the butter on and then we spread the jam on. (Some people chose not
to use jam because they don’t like it. Other people absolutely could not believe
that anyone could possibly not like jam.) Then we carefully cut the bread into
halves and then even more carefully into quarters to make a sandwich.
Everyone said that the best bit was definitely eating it at the end. Ayan said that
it was the best day of his life. Mrs Parry
YEAR 1 SPACE -OUT OF THIS WORLD
This term Year 1 has been learning all about Space. In humanities, we’ve been
talking about the 1969 moon landings and how Neil Armstrong was the first
human being to ever walk on the moon. In science we’ve been exploring the
solar system, looking at the different planets and discovering how they orbit the
sun. We explored how long each planet takes to orbit the sun, and how an earth
year is therefore longer than a year on Venus, but shorter than a year on Mars. To
help us with this we drew a small circle in the playground. This represented the
sun. Then we drew eight circles around the sun, each one larger than before.
These circles represented the orbits of each of the eight planets. The children
took it in turns to hold netballs, tennis balls, golf balls and table tennis balls.
These represented the different planets, with the netballs representing the large
gas planets and the smaller balls representing the smaller planets, like Mercury
and Earth. The children helped each other to stand on the correct orbit. Mr
James stood in the middle and pretended to be the sun. Once the children were
in the right position they took steps around the sun, being very careful to do the
same amount of steps as each other. This clearly showed us that each planet’s
year is a different length, depending on how far away they are from the sun. Then, for fun and to check how fabulous their knowledge of the
planets was, we played a game where the children had to jump on the correct orbit as quickly as possible, depending on which planet’s name
was called out. The rule was that they had to help each other, so there was lots of calling out and racing around. It was exhausting but proved
what impressive space knowledge Year 1 have! Mrs Parry
YEAR 2 & 3 AT THE WETLANDS CENTRE
On Monday, 24 th May, Year 2 went to visit the London Wetlands Centre
where they learnt all about minibeasts and their habitats. A highlight of
the day was definitely the pond-dipping where they found an array of
interesting creatures of all shapes and sizes! They then had to classify their
creatures by looking very carefully at their features. Each group worked
well together to learn more about what they found and the different layers
of living in a pond. Miss Barclay
On Wednesday, 19 th May, Year 3 students were bursting with excitement as they arrived at school, ready to head off on their first school trip
of the year. With forecasted thunderstorms, we were ready for a day of fun at the Barnes Wetland Centre, but much to our surprise the sun
was shining. The students participated in a learning session where they looked at how various pond animals survive in their habitat. We
went pond-dipping and were able to catch animals, transfer them to an observation tray and use an ID chart to identify the animal. The
students were super investigators and became experts on the animals they caught! We then headed on a walk through the wetlands to the
adventure playground. The students were buzzing around playing, enjoying the sunshine and even zip lining through the park on the flying
fox. We learnt so much exploring the wetlands and enjoyed spotting the variety of wildlife we have on our doorstep! Mr Searle