Y1 History Enrichment
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A small group of pupils from Year 2 joined other schools to take part in the Friendship Games at Coleridge Community College.
Sports leaders from the college, demonstrated and supervised each mini event. In their teams, pupils were given the opportunity to try Olympic and Paralympic events such as climbing, curling, long jump and javelin. The pupils supported and encouraged each other throughout and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
At the end of each day, the three winners from each phase were announced. In assembly, each winner was awarded additional house points for their team and a special, chocolate treat.
We were amazed at all the wonderful, creative entries. Your efforts have earnt a lot of house points.
Here are just a few.
On Tuesday 12th March, Year 1 visited South Angle Farm as part of their ‘Animals including Humans’ theme.
During the trip, the children were able to see lots of different mammals including donkeys, goats, pigs, sheep and alpacas. They held, groomed and fed rabbits, guinea pigs and baby lambs. As well as this, the children were excited to meet some reptiles including a snake, tortoise and bearded dragon.
This experience was brilliant in enhancing the children’s knowledge on different types of animals, what they eat and how their bodies work.
Year 3,5 and 6 enjoyed a visit from PrimeVR to further enhance their history, science or geography learning. Each class took part in a virtual reality workshop to help bring them one step closer to their topic and help them to understand, relate and engage with their learning. Year 3 went back in time to the Romans, Year 5 went to space and Year 6 experienced the effects of climate change. It was thoroughly enjoyed by all!
On Thursday 25th January, DC Rebecca March and PC Robert March led our whole school assembly. They explained their roles, their equipment, what they do and how we can keep ourselves safe outside and online. The children learnt so many new facts and thoroughly enjoyed watching Mr Mayes dress up in the police uniform.
On 16th January, to kickstart our new Science unit all about Space, Year 5 visited the National Space Centre in Leicester. We took part in a workshop all about the Earth, Sun and Moon and learned about the different phases of the Moon. Later, our minds were blown by the experiments we witnessed in the ‘It IS Rocket Science’ live show and the amazing planetarium show. We made sure to spend plenty of time looking around the museum itself, where we got to take a look at some rocket prototypes and even at a chunk of the Moon!