Otters Class - Year 4/5

Remarkable Romans WOW Day - March 2025

Otter and Pine Marten classes got together for our Remarkable Romans WOW Day. We found out about Roman chariots, built Lego vehicles, learned about wheels and axles and sketched a chariot. We were then given a design brief to build our own toy chariot. We used our knowledge to plan our design carefully before building our chariot. 

Maths Scavenger Hunt 

Year 4 and Year 5 came together for an end of term maths scavenger hunt. The clues were hidden all over the playground and field. When they had found all of the clues, the children needed to complete some calculations to find the answer. 

Otter Class Cake Sale - February 2025

At Worlebury St. Paul’s Church School, we were fortunate to have a worship with Paul Temple to tell us about his visits to Luhimba School and how they would like to make links with our classes. Otter Class wrote to Luhimba School explained a little bit about themselves and the activities they enjoy doing. They asked the pupils what they do in their spare time and about their learning. We found out that they like playing football and netball and will be soon having an inter class competition.

Otter Class had been told that Luhimba School needed desks and they decided to hold a cake sale to raise money to help with this. Our cake sale raised £157.50 and this was match funded by local business SO-Mortgages. We are excited to write to Luhimba School to tell them the good news. Our money will pay for 10 desks. 

Trip to Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort - December 2024

Pine Marten and Otter classes had an exciting trip to Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort. Bill from the charity working on conserving and protecting the hillfort came to tell us all about the hillfort. We learned that the hillfort has both Bronze Age and Iron Age features and is the only hillfort in the UK to have 10 walls. What an amazing historic monument to have on our doorstep. 

Time Travellers WOW Day - October 2024

We had an amazing Stone Age to Iron Age WOW Day in October. We were fortunate to have visitors from Weston Museum come and show us how to create cave paintings using charcoal. We had to grind the charcoal and then mix it with vegetable fat to make our paint.

We also made bones out of air-dry clay and created Stone Age jewellery before building Stonehenge out of biscuits. 

Otter Class 2024-2025 Terms 1&2 Time Travellers!

Welcome to a brand new school year! The Otters Class teaching team are really looking forward to welcoming everyone back to school and can't wait to see you all! We have lots to look forward to during the coming year - starting with our induction week where we will create our class charter and be able to get to know each other as a new class community! The following week, we have an exciting creative art day at the beach where we will be able to collaborate to create something amazing on Weston sea front! We can't wait!

This year, we are also launching new learning project called, 'Time Travellers!'. During this project we will begin with looking at timelines from the Stone Age through to the Iron Age. We will also look at the Cheddar Man, Stonehenge and Worlebury Iron Age Hillfort.   

Badgers 2023 - 2024

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CURRICULUM INFORMATION: 

Term Five and Six 'Out of This World' Curriculum Information - Click Here

Term Five and Six Project Knowledge Organiser:

Out of this World 

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TERM 5&6: Out of this World

Welcome back to Term 5 and 6. Our topic for these terms is Out of This World. We will be learning all about our Solar System and what affect it has on the Earth throughout the year. We will also be looking at important people in space travel and basing some English work around discussing whether or not this is important. Check back to see what we get up to.

TERM 4: People of the Rainforest: The Mayans

 Welcome back to Term 4. Our topic for this term is People of the Rainforest: The Mayans. We will be learning about the Maya people, their civilisation, culture and achievements in Mesoamerica.

This term so far we have learned about Where the Mayans lived in the world and how their society was organised in terms of a hierarchy. We have also enjoyed a wonderful WOW day all about chocolate. 

TERM 3: Who were the Victorians? 

This term we are learning all about the Victorians and their effect on the local area. 

We have focused our learning in English around the book 'Street Child' 

In Topic, we will be looking famous engineers and what people of the past created that we still use today. We will also examine Victorian Architecture and the affect the building of the railway had on the seaside.

In Science, we will be looking at Forces and completing many exciting experiments relating to these different forces acting on objects in the air, on land and on or in the water.

TERM 1 & 2: A Country Comparison 

Welcome to Badgers Class

Our first topic this term runs over two terms. It is called A Country Comparison - Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? We are busy researching countries around the world (Brazil and Iceland) and comparing them to the United Kingdom.

On our WOW day, the children took up their new roles as researchers for MI5, to help their field agent, Carmen Sandiego, in her fight against V.I.L.E.S evil plots to steal various treasures from around the world. Through intelligence research, the children identified the three countries we need to focus on and the treasures V.I.L.E may have their sights set on: The Crown Jewels, Pele's World Cup Trophy and some priceless Viking artefacts. They have begun building their case files and suspect V.I.L.E. are working out of the newly installed Seamonster in the local area. Please keep your eyes peeled and report any suspicious behaviour to us! ;-) 

In the afternoon, the children experienced (on a small scale) the pressure of a geyser and then created some beautiful Northern Lights artwork (photos to follow).