End of Year 2022–2023 Sea Lion Class Blog
Happy Holidays everyone!

Well what an AMAZING year we have had! We have really enjoyed learning about Brazil: The Rainforest, The Amazon River, Brazilian Landmarks and Brazilian Animals. We have developed our Expressive Arts skills and certainly become creative musical individuals this term, during our music lessons with Miss Atwell . 

So ……what better way to bring our year to a close than a Carnival procession and celebration of our own !

We entertained our parents and sold our drums and delicious Brazilian salsa that we made.

Our Carnival Procession

Our Carnival standing piece 🤩⭐️✨

Carnival Fun !

Our School Trip! 

We had an amazing trip to The University of Wales Trinity St David's this term. We had the opportunity to visit the Immersive Suite which brought our Topic 'Rio De Vida' to life! It felt like we really were in Brazil! 

The Immersive Suite UWTSD

Look how cool this experience was!!!!!

Summer Term 1 2023 

2Benterprising Event at Morgan’s Hotel, Swansea.

We were invited to the conference to talk about the Bumbles of Honeywood enterprise programme we have been participating in. Our class representatives were really BRAVE and presented their learning in front of a room full of business people! They blew the audience away with their confidence, enthusiasm and capability!

The King’s Coronation

We learnt about the important parts of the ceremony.

The King’s Coronation 

We learnt about the actions that happen during the coronation and acted these out in groups. 

Operation Outdoor Garden

We have been thinking about what we would like to have in our outside garden area to allow us to become even better independent learners. We came up with lots of ideas and have made a start with these. Please send in any plants / fruit and vegetable plants for our ‘Garden Centre’ area !

Our Topic is Rio de Vida - everything Carnival!

We had One Heart Drummers in to teach us some Samba Drumming.

We have been learning how to speak some Portuguese!.......

Good morning - Bom Dia!

Goodnight - Bom Noite!

Good afternoon - Boa Tarde!

Butterfly news!!

We have some new visitors in class ....4 caterpillars! We are watching them closely to see when they will make their chrysalis and then turn into butterflies!

Spring 2 2023

Our Art Exhibition - we even had local artists visit to view our work and give us feedback 🤩🤩🤩✨

We have been busy working in our project groups to research, design and create a piece of art for our exhibition next week . We have learnt about different roles you can have in a team and have worked collaboratively to get the task done! 
 

Watch this space for our finished masterpieces! 

Our Art Project in the making!

Everyone engaged in creating their artwork!

Our amazing trip to the National Botanic Gardens .

We learnt about solids liquids and gases!

Forest School and time to relax and play in the park 🌳🪵🌲🍂💦🐾

Autism Superheroes ⭐️✨

We have been learning about Autism and how we can be good friends to people who have autism. We are all going to become Autism Superheroes 💫✨

Science and Technology Mission News

Just look at our creations from recycled materials.....

Exciting News!!!!

We are going on a trip to the National Botanical Gardens of Wales! We are going in the Lab to explore solids , liquids and gases! We are also going to look in the Apothecary to discover some potion bottles! It is going to be great fun!!!

Valentine Biscuits 

We have been learning about Instructional writing and we put our skills into practise by reading some biscuit instructions and making some delicious biscuits for Valentines Day.

We have been learning about Instructional writing and we put our skills into practise by reading some biscuit instructions and making some delicious biscuits for Valentines Day.

Marvellous Messy Afternoon!

After our marvellous ‘Messy Afternoon’, we came up with some wonderful learning ideas for our new topic . Just look at some of these ideas; gosh we are going to be busy! 
 

* Make potions

* Why is mud so messy?

* How do you plant seeds?

* Why do crops need soil to grow?
* How do volcanoes explode?

* Make a volcano .

* Why does cornflour and water behave so strangely?

* How is paint made?

* How do things mix together?

* Colour mixing

* Make a Lava Lamp

Phonics Fun

Reusing balloons to practise our letters and sounds

Digital skills

We have been learning about Keywords and how important they are when searching the net!

Spring Term 2023

Our Messy Afternoon to launch our new topic ...Muck, Mess and Mixtures!

Our dinosaur timeline is almost complete!

Outdoor maths

Forest school

Mission Time!