We have found out about artists who are inspired by nature and tried out their ideas. Yayoi Kusama features pumpkins in her work with infinity rooms. How many pumpkins can you see?
Herons Activities
Herons PE Spring 2022
We have developed sequences in gymnastics, sometimes mirroring our partners, sometimes doing the opposite and trying to copy each other exactly with movements.
Science – Levers and Pulleys
During the Spring term, we have investigated levers and pulleys in the classroom and during forest school:
Robot Designs
Collaging paper to create texture for our robot designs. How detailed can you be using your scissor skills?
Herons RE
We celebrated Harvest with the whole school walking to the local church to give thanks, sing songs and say prayers. Rev. Darleen also led our Christingle service at school . We rounded off the term with a performance of “Lights Camel Action” to tell the nativity story through songs and dance and remind ourselves and parents of the true meaning of Christmas.
Herons Love to Read
Herons love to read – making a swing or den in forest school makes a quiet place to enjoy a book.
Herons PE
Besides PE lessons with Mr Ward and swimming at Broadland High School, we find lots of opportunities to be active whether it is trying to fly during forest school with tarpaulin wings or joining with Joe Wicks on Children in Need day.
Herons Music
We still enjoy beating out rhythms from Bucket Beats which we took part in last year. This performance was during forest school.
Wind Energy Museum Trip
On our trip to the Wind Energy museum, we experimented with changing the number of blades to generate electricity from a wind turbine; tried out alternative power – elastic bands to turn blades to run cars and wind power to fly kites.
Herons’ History
We have found out how important the rivers were to Norfolk in the past as transport routes were very poor with marshy ground and not many roads and no trains at first. We found out about trading wherries that then became part of the tourist industry. We were treated to a visit by the Norfolk Wherry Trust who look after Albion, one of the last trading wherries. They sang wherry shanties and told us about life aboard a wherry a hundred years ago. We used photographs to find out more evidence about the Norfolk broads in the past.
