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A very warm welcome to Darling Class. Please do have peep at what we have been getting up to.

January 2021

  • Making the most of the rain

    Published 20/01/21

    Not ones to let the rain stop us, when the rain flooded our playground, it was the perfect opportunity to sail some boats and explore how we could make them sink.

    We predicted how many cubes we thought it would take to sink our boats and then took to the water to see if we were correct!

    We loved adding the cubes and watched in nervous anticipation! Unfortunately, our paper boats didn't last too long and thinking about it we decided that this might be because paper isn't waterproof. Something for us to investigate another day!

     

    So, spying the plastic boats in the water area we decided to see if we could sink those! We thought that the bigger boats would need many more cubes because they are heavier (we checked this on the scales) and there is more space to put more cubes.

     

    Our prediction was definitely correct - there was ALOT of counting to do!!

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  • Dinosaur visits Darling Class!!

    Published 16/01/21

    This week has been incredibly exciting for us in school and those at home, who have shared the experience every step of the way.

    On Monday morning we came in expecting nothing out of the ordinary, but we we wrong!

    Our classroom had been turned upside down and and on the floor were giant............

    .....footprints!

    And not only that but laying underneath one of the tables were two dinosaur eggs!!

    Well, we just didn't know what to think or what to do!

    We examined the footprints and because of their shape and the size (we looked it up) we deduced that the dinosaur that visited us was a Tyranasaurus Rex!

     

    Would she come back we wondered - well yes, she would need to get her eggs we thought.

    We knew that the eggs needed to be kept somewhere warm and safe so we went to the shed and collected the baby's crib and blankets and took turns looking after the egg, which was at times a littles scary as we could hear the dinosaurs inside and we didn't know when they were going to hatch!

    Some of us were a little perturbed that the dinosaur had left the room in such a mess, so after tidying up, it was decided that traps were needed to catch the dinosaur! While these were laid, no entry signs were made and messages to the dinosaur were written. Then we waited ....

     

    The next morning, while the traps hadn't caught the dinosaur, they had been disturbed and a message for us had been left! The dinosaur hadn't meant to make such a mess (its tail kept knocking things over!) and it was desperately looking for a suitable habitat to hatch its eggs.

    We set to work investigating what a suitable habitat would be...

     

    We realised that our school pond offered all the things that the dinosaur would need - shelter, water, food, and so we took the eggs and made a wonderful nest for them.

     

    It must have been perfect, because two days later.... THE EGGS HATCHED!!!!!!!!

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  • Dinosaur Digging!

    Published 06/01/21

    This afternoon we had an email from a paleontologist who had heard a rumour that there may be dinosaur bones buried in the woods at Stanton St Quintin school. However, due to Covid restrictions, she asked Darling Class if they would carry out some excavation work on her behalf, and would you believe what the we unearthed.....

    We carefully searched and dug the ground...

    And look what we found....!

    DINOSAUR BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    We dusted them off very gently with paintbrushes so that we didn't damage them.

    This is how many we found...

    We decided that if we put the bones together we could see what dinosaur the bones belonged to...

    We decided this one was a crocosaurus, that swam and had a clubbed tail like the ankylosaurus.

    And this one was a tyrranosaurus.

    We invited Rhine Class (socially distanced) to visit our Dinosaur Museum and as curators we told them about what we had found.

    They were very impressed with our knowledge and were astounded at what we had found!

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