Welcome back. I hope you have had a fantastic Easter. We have said goodbye to Miss Fernando as she finishes her last teaching placement at Friezland School and wish her well. We have welcomed back Miss Whittaker who will be in our class for her final teaching placement until the middle of the summer term.

The topic for this half term is Explorers and we will be travelling with Christopher Columbus around the world. Miss Whittaker and myself have planned some exciting activities and look forward to sharing them with you on this blog. We will also be spending some time finding out about animals in science thinking about food chains and what animals need to survive, we started this work last half term thinking about the frogs in our pond. We will continue to watch the frogspawn to see what happens to it over the next few weeks. We will be finding out all about Spain during European week and will be celebrating The Queens birthday thinking about the work she does and how lucky we are to have a special Royal family.

Over the Easter holiday Miss Challinor and Miss Blizzard went to Santander in Spain to learn Spanish to enable them to teach the children at St Chad's alongside Mrs Preston and Mrs Wharton who have previously be on the training. Miss Blizzard will be teaching Spanish Year 1 and 2 on a Friday afternoon and is looking forward to playing lots of games and doing different activities to help the children to learn new Spanish words and phrases.

We are going to be very busy the half term learning lots of new things and developing our ideas and sharing them with the class and the rest of the school.