The cheeky goblins have been at it again…laying their eggs in our beautiful wildlife area – did you know that they lay their eggs at the base of sapling trees and that as the embryo develops, it draws energy from the tree?  Sadly, this often leads to the death of the tree, particularly if its spirit hasn’t matured fully. 

So, Lower School children decided to check every sapling and collect in any eggs that they found (gloved hands of course as no one wants to turn into a goblin!).  They then put the eggs in a protected nest and covered them in flowers in the hopes that they may transform into munchkin eggs – I’ll keep you posted. 

As LS are studying the stone-age, we then interactively read the story Cave Baby – this book has lovely illustrations that we will re-create in our own cave later in the term. 

Following this, we made stone-age axes (lopper, knife and lashing skills needed here), began construction of a round house (lopper, knife and weaving skills here, in addition to a recap on properties of a circle) or made representations of tree spirits to ward off the goblin-leaf-cutters (the goblins collect leaves at this time of year to make leaf-milk to feed to the goblets (baby goblins) when they hatch (often, the collection process leads to the death of a tree – not on our watch!!). 

Upper School children began their session with a sculpture challenge linked to their topic, The Ancient Greeks.  We looked at images of 13 literary monsters, and the children made one and tried to guess the ones their peers had made – we had to be Precise, Inquisitive and Problem Solving here. 

Following this, some finished Maya swords, others made a banquet of the food Odysseus sampled on his voyage around the Mediterranean, with a final group beginning construction of hand puppets linked to the Odessey. 

The boys and girls in Year 3 and 4 stepped back 50,000 years during their visit to Creswell Crags to explore what life was like in for their early ancestors.
They studied the bones found in the caves of animals such as the woolly mammoths, hyenas, and cave bears, used bow drills to make fire and practised their hunting skills using ancient spears.
Please click here to see the photographs of their day.

This morning, Team Resilience created a timeline of the Stone Age, including pivotal moments in time during the Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic eras. We had to create it outside as it was so long, it spanned over 3 million years! 

As a reward for all their reading at home, Team Courage had an Easter egg hunt today! Keep up the great home reading and have a lovely Easter break!

Our Easter EGGSTRAVAGANZA proved a huge hit and gave the children the opportunity to show their eggcellent creative talents, designing and making an egg in the style of an animal! 

Please click here to view photographs of the entries.