Day one: A day of sunshine, teamwork and water.

Wow! What an action packed day we've had so far! 
Once we had settled into our dorms and Mr Scarborough had introduced us to the rules and routines of Stubbington it was off to our first activity - Chaingangs.

 

We were given the task of transporting precious medicine through a treacherous Amazonian jungle. This required excellent communication and teamwork skills which we had in abundance. To prove it, only a few of us were gifted with a sprinkling of the lifesaving liquid.

 

 After a well deserved break in the awesome adventure playground it was time for our second adventure, this time taking place on a tropical Caribbean island. To survive on this deserted island we needed to build a shelter which was safe from predators, waterproof, sturdy and which of course looked fantastic.

Then came the bit that every teacher going to Stubbington loves the best..... waterproof testing time! Unfortunately it would seem, although we had delightfully blue skies, a heavy deluge of rain was about to arrive on our island. The result.... 29 soggy islanders (hee hee hee).

What a way to start our time here at Stubbington. Lots of fantastic memories already made and many many more still to come.

Blue Reef Visit to Bluebirds and Robins

The children in Bluebirds and Robins were very excited when Kate from Blue Reef Aquarium brought some sea animals to Moorlands.

The children were able to see, touch and feel some clam and mussel shells as well as shark eggs.
Some children were not so keen on the shark eggs as they looked a bit unusual!

All of the children enjoyed looking at the spiny starfish and were amazed to find out it had 5 eyes. Starfish have as many eyes as limbs!

Many of the children enjoyed the opportunity to touch the starfish.

The children were keen to look at the edible crab and some felt brave enough to touch it. Kate did make sure that the pincers were tucked around the back of it's body so it could not pinch anyone!

The spider crab was keen to see us and kept moving around in the box before Kate got it out. The children were impressed by how big it was and  how it could fold its legs and pincers away so it would not hurt anyone who wanted to touch it.

Everyone really enjoyed our special visitors and we are now are looking forward to the eggs arriving and hatching very soon! Thank you to our visitors from Blue Reef for such an exciting experience.

Sea Slugs

Year three had a very special treat this afternoon. A band called Sea Slugs came to play us some music. We joined in with the singing (after doing our vocal warm ups) and then joined the band as a huge drum kit.

This was the introduction where we listened to a song (we danced in our seats a bit as well!)

Then we got up to do our vocal warm up.

Then we became a giant drum kit (stomping and clapping)

 

A huge thank you to Sea Slugs for a great afternoon that we all enjoyed and to Mrs Pritchard for organising the workshop.

Grounds Week - Newts Class

On Monday we went on a weather walk and we used our senses to describe an Autumn day. We heard birds tweeting, we saw spooky spider webs and smelt damp soggy mud. 

 In Science we learnt about Deciduous and Evergreen trees. We discovered that Moorlands School has got many Oak and Sycamore trees.

 We pretended we were hibernating squirrels. We needed to find as many acorns as possible so that we could survive throughout the Winter months.

'I had a lot of fun being a squirrel and finding the best hiding places' 

Birds need extra food for the Winter, so we decided to make bird feeders.

We spent a long time planning our dinosaur den with our team. It was a challenging task trying to make sure that it was strong and water/ wind resistant.

'I found it tricky at first to work as a team, but then we listened to each other and made a strong dinosaur den' 

Frogs- Grounds Week Day 4

Today we went up to the woods and when we got there we made a den for the three little pigs. We collected lots of natural materials to help us. We found some sticks and leaves and used string to hold it altogether.

We worked as a team to build our dens.

We had lots of fun but got very messy!