Blog by Tag: Sycamore

This week 7A had some special visitors. Fudge, Dec and Beccaaaaaa the chicks. Sycamore have been working on life cycles and from incubator to hatching.
Sycamore class bought the chicks to visit. We had to be extremely quiet as they were only 7 days old.
Mrs Banks took them out of the cage and…

The chicks are ready to go into their brooding . 

We moved the incubator into the brooding and lifted the lid off slowly . 

Some of the chicks were quite confident and happily jumped into their brooding and began exploring . 

Some of the chicks felt a little nervous and needed some…

As the chicks began to hatch, it was time to set up their home. This is called brooding. 
All the children took turns to help build the brooding pen for the chicks. 

What good team work sycamore class! 

In the brooding pen, the chicks have a heater to keep them warm, lots of hay, water for…

Wow! We have life! Some of the eggs have started to hatch. Our first chick is a beautiful yellow colour - we have named the first chick Becca. Followed by chick number 2 which is brown, then chick number 3 very closely after is a lovely grey. Chick number 4 took its time to make an appearance but…

On Tuesday this week in Sycamore class we had some very exciting arrivals. 
 

Miss Molloy and the children in Sycamore class have been doing lots of research about how to care for animals and what animals need. This week we are going to put our learning to the test. 

Real chickens to care…

Welcome back ! 
Hit the ground running this week with some amazing digital art work . The children looked at digital images and used their words to talk about what they could see. The children then recreated the art work by using colours on the same image and adding in a printed photograph of…

Sycamore Class absolutely loved celebrating Holi on Wednesday!

This week Group 2 have had lots of fun!

On Tuesday, we went to Brew and Buddies for a morning of play. We were even lucky enough to have our lunch there - we had a choice of pizza, sandwiches, crisps, chips and biscuits!

On Thursday, we had the bouncy castle and AllDay Farm visited with lots…

Another amazing Safer Internet Day at Astley Park School.

Many pupils learned the importance of understanding of reasonable and healthy time on iPad. Something we can all struggle with is recognising when we have spent too long on a device. Many of our pupils are working hard with this…

What a very exciting day! Sycamore enjoyed an Attention Autism session, we all sat together and helped Miss Molloy as she began to create a rabbit with red and orange paint it was very messy and fun! We then talked about why Miss Molloy made a rabbit and we found out that the Chinese New Year is…

As part of our theme, “Emergency! Emergency!”, Nurse Amy, who is our class governor in Willow Class, came to see us today to tell us all about the job of a nurse. Some of Sycamore Class joined us to find out about the job of a nurse too. 

Before Nurse Amy arrived, we thought about questions…

This afternoon Sycamore class enjoyed a Christmas party afternoon with Mrs Crouch. We started the afternoon with an attention autism session where we pulled Christmas crackers and put on our party hats. We then played pass the parcel, musical statues and pin the nose on Rudolph. We enjoyed party…