Celebrating Empty Classroom Day with a trip to the river!

Friday 19th June was Empty Classroom Day, a day where school children were challenged to spend at least one lesson outside of the classroom to encourage outdoor learning. In Class 5, we enjoy working outside so we used this extra opportunity to walk down to the river in East Harling to embark on a spot of river dipping. Our current Science topic is Living Things and Habitats and in particular this week we were focusing upon the life cycles of insects and amphibians so exploring the river wildlife fitted perfectly. We found a huge variety of wildlife and we will be looking back at the photos of our findings this week to start classifying what we actually found and discovering more about their life cycles. 

Kwik Cricket - Learning how to bowl overarm.

We enjoyed a Kwik Cricket lesson in the beautiful sunshine this afternoon! Bowling underarm proved to be a skill that will take practise to master but luckily we are a group of children who thrive on a challenge! We practised our technique individually and in pairs before moving on to a game based activity where we also had the opportunity to practise our batting, fielding, wicket keeping and umpiring skills. 

Class 5's Adventure to Thorpe Woodlands

Today, together with Class 6, we spent the day at Thorpe Woodlands, organised for us by Mr Edmonds (thank you!). We had a great time working as a team to solve problems and take part in adventurous activities which would not have been possible to experience at school. We also spent part of the day looking closely at the local habitat, information from which we will be using in Geography and Science this half term.

Here is a snapshot of a few of the activities we enjoyed!

Ready to go!

Discussing the plan of action to attempt the Mohawk Walk.

"How are we going to get us all to the other side of the 'Spider's Web'?"

Everyone made it to the other side without touching the web!

Huge sense of achievement completing the Platform Swing.

Teamwork, concentration and patience were needed to complete the Chenobyl Challenge.

We had a great day and look forward to experiencing more that Thorpe Woodlands has to offer in the future.

Mrs Good and Mrs Tovell