Penguins

Welcome to Penguins Class

We are Penguins Class

Our class teacher is Mrs Enticott. Our Learning Assistant is Mrs Goatcher. Penguin Class is a great place to be where everyone works hard, tries their best and never gives up. We are remarkable readers and we really enjoy Mrs Enticott’s story of the day.

Please see below for all the wonderful things we will be learning about this term.

 In Penguin Class we have been working very hard with our learning. We have enjoyed our Safari adventure where we travelled to Africa and saw lots of wild animals including; lions, elephants, leopards, meerkats and giraffes. Interestingly, we found out lots of information about Kenya and we even learned how to sing in Swahili.

Excitingly, we had lots of fun during our weekly Bushcraft sessions. We developed key knowledge about the plants and wildlife around us, how to protect and preserve our environment, as well as learning how to make a spark to begin a fire!

In December, we had a very exciting trip to the ice-skating rink where we all had so much fun on the ice. At the start, some of us were feeling very nervous, but after a little bit of time on the ice, and a little help from the penguins, we were all so excited on the ice and we began trying to do some tricks. We all had some much fun!

Throughout the term we have enjoyed some special focused mornings. For Science Morning, we learned about a famous, and very influential scientist, called Sir Isaac Newton. During our discovery and research, we found out lots about gravity and we even conducted our own experiments to put Isaac Newton’s theory to the test. For our Maths Morning, we investigated 2D and 3D shapes and created our very own shape crowns to showcase everything we found out including; the number of edges, vertices, lines of symmetry and even right angles!

It has been lovely to welcome the new term with a new topic. In Penguin Class, we are learning about space during our ‘A Journey to the Moon’ topic. So far, we have learned about famous astronauts who have travelled into space, including; Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Valentina Tereshkova, Mae Jemison and Yuri Gagarin. We have also been fascinated with our research into animals who have visited space, including; Laika the dog, Ham the monkey and Marfusha the rabbit.

In art, we have been learning about a famous artist called Vincent van Gogh and we have been becoming artists ourselves. To begin with, we immersed ourselves into experiencing art by looking at the different shapes, colours and textures and thinking about the meaning behind the images. We have then used different mediums to create the famous ‘Starry Nights’ landscape. It has been so wonderful to work together to create these beautiful recreations.

Additionally, we have embraced our music opportunities and thoroughly enjoyed our visit to Chichester Festival Theatre to watch a real-life orchestra. We were all mesmerised by the musicians playing as one big group to create beautiful pieces of music and to retell stories through sound. There were lots of string and percussion instruments that were being played and we all left feeling very inspired.