Lithuanian Visitors and Kew Gardens

Another busy week to end the half term in Cuckoos class! We started off the week by welcoming some students from a school in Lithuania. The children were very exited to meet them and tell them about life in the UK. At the end of the day, they enjoyed playing board games with their new friends!

We continued our scary stories this week, with a focus on setting descriptions in English. We used a new ‘hands on building tool’ to pull the ideas from our head and writing them on building blocks before writing our setting decriptions.

On Wednesday we visited Kew Gardens where we consolodated our learning on the South American rainforest. The children learnt about the types of plants that are found in the rainforest as well as experiencing the heat and humidity found there. The children were glad to get back to the UK spring temperatures. They also saw the worlds most rarest and most smelliest plant, but luckily for the group it isn’t due to flower (and stink) for the next couple of weeks! The Titan arum plant smells so bad that it is said to smell like rotten meat! It is so rare that it only opens every 7-10 years!

Wishing you all a lovely half term and we will see you back in schol on Monday 2nd June.