Category: Emerald Class

🌻Mental Health Week Nature competition winners!🌸

A HUGE well done to everyone who took part in our Mental Health Week competition – ‘Get Creative with Nature’! 🌈 The Team Captains, Mrs Booth and Mrs Minshall Thomas had such a tough decision picking the winners in each class.

We are pleased to announce the overall, class winners:- Reception- Will and Annabel, Year 1- Penny, Year 2-Nia, Year 3-Reuben and Year 5/6-Andrew! 🥇

Well done everyone, we are so proud of everyone that took part! 🙏

Deciduous and Evergreen Trees! 🌲🌳

We have been learning all about trees in Science.

Have you noticed that nature changes with each season? Some trees change colour in autumn: like this oak tree and these sliver birch. The leaves turn to shades of yellow, orange, pink, red and gold. And then drop… leaving the branches bare all winter. We call these deciduous trees. It means ‘to fall off’.

But not all trees change and shed their leaves; some are evergreen. They stay green all year long! These trees all have thin, pointy leaves called needles. Some are long and soft, and some are short and sharp.

Some trees can grow taller than tall buildings. They can be thousands of years old. They grow taller and taller and their trunks get thicker and thicker. If you were to slice through a tree, you could work out how old it is, because it grows a ring of bark each year.