Botanical Gardens

We are starting our new topic where we focus on the rainforests around the world. To gain the children's interest in this topic, we took a trip to the Botanical Gardens in Birmingham. This was a fantastic experience which answered a lot of the children's questions but also led them to think up even more interesting questions which we aim to answer through the rest of the topic in school.

We started the day by looking around the different rooms to get a feel of the environments the plants grow in. It was amazing to really feel how it would feel in a tropical place, even if it was incredibly warm and humid. We were able to see a huge variety of plants including cocoa plants which were our favourites. Of course we were also fascinated by the huge fish swimming around in the pond.

Once we had visited the various rooms, observing all of the incredibly interesting plants and avoided (mostly) the prickly cacti, we had a lesson in how plants grow. Here we learnt about all the aspects of a flower. This included: the parts of a plant, seed dispersal, the importance of animals and why flowers are so bright.

                              

                             

           

 Once again, this was a brilliant way to begin our topic and immerse ourselves into the world of rainforests while also covering many of our Science objectives in a fun and entertaining way. We can't wait to take what we learnt and use it back at school.

Tudor Banquet

At Welford, we try and create a Business Enterprise around our topic. As our topic was the Tudors for this term, we thought we would have a Tudor Banquet.

The children got very involved in dressing up as Tudors and some of them had some fantastic costumes. It was lovely to share lunch time with them while they were so excited and in character.

Throughout the previous two weeks, we had been busy making things that we could sell to people at home. These included: embroidery Tudor Roses, 'stained glass windows', Tudor Rose biscuits and self portraits in the style of a Tudor Royal as well as holding a raffle for a cake.

The afternoon was a huge success with Year 5 raising over £250 for charity. A massive thank you to all who attended and bought our work as well as a huge thank you to Mrs Devi for her dedication and help with all of the work.