Friday 13 November 2015

Visit to Quaker Wood

Yesterday Squirrels class were joined by the Badgers for a visit to Quaker wood. What a lovely day to choose! The sun shone on us during our walk there and stayed with us all morning until we got back to school!  We had a lovely time working in groups carrying out 4 fascinating activities. We planted new trees, which the children are looking forward to taking their families to see (and maybe even their own children and grand children in the future!). It was really hard work digging the holes, but everyone worked together and two children at a time stood on the spades for an extra push!
We looked for signs of autumn and collected different things, like leaves and berries, to stick onto our sticky 'journey sticks'.
We used a key to find some unusual plants and creatures living in the trees and hedges and on the ground.
Our fourth activity was making pictures from woodland materials. We had to be really careful collecting some of the different types of cut grasses because a family of frogs were hibernating underneath the pile!
A huge thank you to the helpers at Quaker wood for being so enthusiastic, interesting and for making us so welcome (they even supplied us with drinks and biscuits!), Also a huge thank you to Mr Fairweather and Mr Haddrick for offering to come and help us. We hope you had fun too!








Tuesday 10 November 2015

Multi skills at the High School

The Year 2 children spent Tuesday morning at Diss High School with the Year 11 Sports Leaders. They organised about twelve activities that everyone had a chance to try. It was very good fun and the time flew by.









Thank you Diss High School.