Yorkshire Adventure Number One for Class One

This week Class One visited Brimham Rocks for their very first Yorkshire Adventure.
What a glorious day it was. As always, Mr Madeley entertained and educated as we all walked,  played, scrambled and squeezed our way around this beautiful and interesting part of Yorkshire.

 

The children were brilliant and there wasn't one complaint about the all the hard work they had to do. I also think that I only heard the question "When is it lunch time?" twice in the whole morning.

Safety, and learning about safety, was the key objective for the day. There was lots of instruction and  discussion about how the children could manage their own safety when undertaking potentially risky activities and they were given lots of opportunities to consider making safe choices for themselves and their friends. I must point out however that all the elements of the day were very carefully risk assessed and managed by the adults who accompanied the visit.

 

In addition to leaning how to stay safe ourselves, we also learned about how the rocks were formed and (through lots of fun games) we considered how different animals adapt to their environments and hunt or stay hidden in order to survive.

 

 

Baa Baa Black Sheep

 



On Wednesday Class One had two very special visitors to the classroom.

Jed's mum and dad brought their pet Hebridean sheep.

They raised the sheep from when they were first born because their mother couldn't look after them.

The children wanted to let everyone know about the visit on the blog so they all chose a picture and did some independent writing.

Jed - I looked after the lambs when they were little.

 

Before the visit we talked about how to make the classroom a safe place for the lambs so they didn't feel scared. We also discussed the best place to put them so they didn't make a mess.

Samuel - I was watching James feed the lambs. They were drinking milk from a bottle.

Sumayya - The lambs wanted to cuddle me.

Tabatha - Me and Maya and Kitty like the lambs. They were black.

Thomas - I held the lamb. It felt soft.

Tom - The lambs horns are hard.

Eva - Me and Oscar were stroking the lambs. They were soft.

James - We stroked the lambs.

Kitty - Me and Maya stroked the lambs. 

Charlie - We held the lambs. 

Leo - I like cuddling the lambs. 

Maya - The lambs feet were so cute and so hard.

Oscar - Jed's mum was feeding the lambs. The lambs were drinking milk.
Thank you to Jed and his family. We had a great time and even enjoyed writing about it.
We will be learning more about caring for animals next half-term.

Year 1 Yorkshire Adventure

We are at Swinsty Reservoir, hiking around.