Animal Kingdom

Year R had so much fun with our Animal Kingdom topic in spring 2.

We got to learn so many interesting facts and were lucky enough to go on an exciting trip as well as have visitors come to our school, where we got to see, touch and learn about lots of different animals.

Our first visitors were from Blue Reef Aquarium.

We had some rock pool creatures brought to our school, which we got to touch and learn lots of facts about. We talked after the visit about all the facts that we learnt before writing down the facts about one of the creatures.

The creatures we saw were:

A Spider Crab

 We learnt a spider crab is one of the only crabs that can move forwards and backwards and not just side to side.

 Its shell helped it to blend in with the rocks.

Crabs have 8 legs and 2 pincers.

We also got to look at a Shore Crab.

The shore crab we saw was a boy. We learnt that male shore crabs had a rocket shaped marking on its tummy where as females had a pouch where it holds babies.

The other creature we got to learn about was a star fish.

The star fish had hard bumps over its soft, jelly like skin, we loved feeling the different parts. We had to be careful not to touch the eyes though. We learnt jelly fish have an eye at the end of each of it's legs and they can have over 20 legs.

 We also learnt that they have two stomachs and if they eat something they don't like they will remove one of their stomachs and grow a new one.

We learnt many other facts about these rock pool sea creatures too and loved showing off our work full of all these interesting facts!

Next we had our very exciting school trip to the farm.

It was our first school trip so it was very exciting to go on a coach and be out of school for the day, and we got to learn lots too.

We fed lots of the animals, held and stroked them and even milked a cow.

 We learnt lots of facts about the dairy cow including what they do with the milk and what it can be used to make.

After our trip to the farm we made fact files to share all of the interesting facts we learnt about the animals we saw on the farm.

Lastly we also had another visit from Bitterne Reptile Centre, where we got to see, learn about about touch a tarantula, lizard, a bullfrog and 3 different types of snakes.

Before our visitors arrived we thought of questions about the creatures that we wanted to find the answers to and then wrote the answers after we found them out.

 

We were very lucky to have so much fun learning about all these different animals as well as lots of other animals around the world. We learnt about where the animals would live if they were wild and that animals aren't just found on farms, at zoos or sea life centres, or even as pets at home.

We would like to thank everyone who helped with our topic.

Year Three Pirate Day

Year Three launched our new topic today by dressing up as pirates and doing pirate things!
We wrote a letter, sketched a pirate ship and went on a treasure hunt.

 

 

YEAR ONE WORLD FOOD MARKET

Wow! What a busy day Frogs and Newts have had, preparing and running their own World Food Market!

 Parents, Nans, Grandads and Grannys came from far and wide to sample the wonderful food on offer!

 The children were challenged to sell their food by advertising, promoting and giving good customer service!

 The children were so successful that some stalls sold out really quickly!

 Parents gathered in the market place to eat and chat!

 Thank you for all your enthusiasm and kind donations - which will all go to Friends of Moorlands!

Frog's 100 marble treat!

 

 

For their marble treat, Frogs decided to have a teddy bear's picnic! They had a brilliant afternoon!

Thanks to parents for providing snacks! They had jaffa cakes, ginger biscuits and doughtnuts! It was fantastic!

A musical update for key stage 2 children. 

The final recorder extravaganza rehearsal is on Wednesday 25th March at the Turner Sims Concert Hall.  This will be followed by the actual evening performance.  Moorlands Recorder Group children will be playing their recorders, together with the UKs most popular Medieval band Joglaresa, plus other schools, too.  Our recorder pieces and songs are celebrating 800 years of the spirit of Magna Carta, one of England's greatest exports to the world.  Magna Carta was the springboad for notions of fairness, civil rights and liberties in the time of King John. Good luck to our children for this coming Wednesday.  Mrs Pritchard.

Recently our Upper School choir enjoyed a fantastic singing workshop with Jez Unwin, who has starred in over 25 musical productions in the West End, the recent one being Once.  He worked with the children for a good hour and they absolutely loved it!  The smiles on their faces... The children learnt some warmups, did some work on harmonies and focused on singing the new version of Tomorrow from the musical Annie.  Feeling really proud of these children.  Look out for the photos on our website.  Well done.  Mrs Pritchard.

Drumming workshop is going down a storm on a Thursday lunchtime.  Children are loving it.  The energy we see and the enjoyment felt is evident, which is great to see.  Alex is working with the children doing routines to different pop music.  There will be a drumming assembly for upper school children after lunch this Thursday 26th March.  Look out for photos on the school's website. 

Violin concert on Monday 23rd March in Moorlands school hall at 2:30pm.  Plus additional solos from Keeley, our double bass player, plus George and Zora on violin.  Good luck!!  Mrs Pritchard.


Our Year 5 children recently enjoyed going to a London Sinfonietta Concert at Central Hall.  They experienced listening to contemporary music by various musicians, focusing on rhythms, played on instruments such as electric guitar and marimba.  Children were able to take part clapping out various
rhythms in a round.  Hopefully, it gave them a chance to listen to music that they would otherwise not listen to generally.   Look out for photos on the school's website.  Mrs Pritchard.

Watch out for more musical events.