Swans enjoy using the laptops. This week they used them to explore data handling through tally charts and pictograms. ​

Last week we were thrilled to welcome Kip and Elfyn, from Let's Play, to Woodpeckers Class to share music, singing and creating our own song.   We thoroughly enjoyed singing different nursery rhymes to 'Bing Bong' and then we also created a new song based on own poetry and art work.   To help celebrate the Pickwell Foundation's Refugee Week at the Landmark Theatre, we had created a class word poem about compassion.   We discussed and thought about words we could use to describe compassion and also what the opposite of these would be.   We created our 'Reaching Out For Each Other' hand pictures using oil pastels and brusho.

We had a visit from two ladies from The Pickwell Foundation who talked to the whole school in an assembly about compassion. This has helped to inspired us to create artwork to be displayed in The Landmark on Sunday 25th June and then in Ilfracombe Library. 

Swans had a brilliant trip to Plymouth Aquarium. They learnt such a lot from watching the incredible variety of animals in their different habitats and also investigated like marine scientists in the aquarium workshop. 

On Friday, Woodpeckers went to Plymouth Aquarium to learn about the different habitats of marine life around our UK coastline and Australia.   We were totally enthralled all day seeing the amazing and varied species.   We found out about life in the shallow rock pools on our beaches to the deeper seas and also about tropical coral reefs.   In the afternoon we had a workshop to learn about special features of different marine animals, the effect of salt water on objects and also how different animals feed on plankton.   

For world ocean day we created a piece of 30cm x 30cm art work in support of saving 30 % of the world's oceans by 2030. We used the logo "Do it for..." and then drew sea creatures that we want to save. We used pastels and water colour paints.