Bamburgh Class 2024 -25

Bamburgh Beach School Day - Seasons and Migration
 
Bamburgh class had a fabulous beach day. Once we had arrived, we 
played an Animal migration Races to help us understand how different animals migrate and keep warm through movement. Then in groups we explored how nature changes through the seasons making large seasonal mandalas using materials found on the beach.
After lunch at the Hindmarsh hall, we created bird nests in the sand to help us understand how birds prepare for different seasons by making nests. Afterwards, we worked in teams pretending to be migrating animals and set up obstacles; so teams needed to work together to migrate across the beach by running, hopping, or crawling to reach their destination.
 We had a super day, thank you Mrs Johnson and all our volunteers.
 
Bamburgh Castle Class - A Festive Outdoor Day
 
Bamburgh's Outdoor Day was all themed on festivities, including 'The Night Before Christmas' with the aims to develop scientific knowledge as well as creativity and teamwork.
 
The day began with our own version of 'sleigh-pulling' experiments where we thought about the forces of pushing and pulling and what can increase and decrease friction.  We then used lots of festive theme stories throughout the day like 'The Night Before Christmas', 'Little Robin Red Vest' and 'Laura's Star' to inspire us either independently or in our teams to create sculptures, decorations or represent a part of the story board from the book.  We shared our outcomes by 'showing and telling' what we had created developing our speaking and listening skills.  There were so many fantastic ideas and we did ourselves proud at how we all worked together.  We then had a little magical time in the forest as we made our very own outdoor 'jingle bell' which was absolutely perfect for a bit of festive singing and helped us warm up as we had a treat of hot chocolate.  A lovely way to be rewarded on a wonderful outdoor day.