Alnwick Class 2024-25

Alnwick Castle Class Beach School
Well the forecast may have looked a little dubious but we enjoyed the warmer temperature and the still day to have a lovely adventure for our beach day.

On the way we compared and contrasted our Winter season to our now Spring season and enjoyed identifying species and wildlife along our way, from Snowdrops to Gorse and Texel Sheep to Heron, Swans and Sandpipers.  We then spent a bit of time at the Woodland beginning our traditional tale adventures with a bit of drama, then three bears collecting and sorting into size.  After a little fruit break and story time with 'Mixed up Fairy Tales' we created our own dream dens / houses for the three little pigs.  We worked as a team to create some really imaginative features and took it in turns to present our creations to the class in our groups.

We were very ready for lunch and delighted to have as part of our lunch story time the whole school Space Adventure Story that we wrote as a collaboration on yesterday's World Book Day Celebrations with the rest of the school.  We then had lots of fun with the book 'Unfortunately', discovering the formula of how stories like to have a plot that is a problem and then a solution.

In the afternoon, now on the beach we recapped the features of traditional tales and then worked in our Crews to create our own Fairytale land.  Once again there were some fantastic creations.  The day was finished with a quick mark making challenge to design your own character and like a true artist...sign your name!

There maybe some tired legs but full creative minds - well done Alnwick Castle Class.

Alnwick Beach School Day - A Festive Stickman Adventure

 What an adventure for our winter themed beach day and our first as Alnwick Castle Class.

Along the way we spotted things including some plants, lots of ducks like eider ducks which we identified the male and female. We had to negotiate a hedge cutter so the kind tractor man let us passed and it got us thinking about all the jobs on the farm at this time of year now that harvest is over. We then made it to the woods where we searched, collected and even accessorised our own stickman! We then reminded ourselves about the first part of the story and then made our own Stickman nest in our groups.

Next we went to the beach and continued our stickman adventure by making our stickman sandcastle. We used our imaginations to retell the story using natural materials linking real life objects and wildlife to the text. The collaboration and team work was wonderful to see and hear, we even did a show and tell feedback session so everyone had to present what they had made. Everyone worked really hard so we had a treat of a playing at the play park as a reward. Then back at school we recalled the story and made bird feeders.

A very special day and everyone admired their super listening and team work