On Wednesday the 12th of December, Team 1 were lucky enough to go to Splash Planet in Hastings. This was made possible by donations from Scanpower, MCI and Lloyd, Dodsonand Pringle. Thank you to Mrs. Heald for organising this. We were also lucky that Miss Hutchings's brother is the manager. We left school at 9.00 a.m. When we got to Splash Planet a man came and talked to us about the rules. Then we had some morning tea. We got changed into our togs and were allowed to swim in two of the pools - the mushroom pool and the pirate pool. It was a cloudy day and some people got quite cold. We got changed to have lunch and then we were lucky enough to have a ride on the train. Everyone enjoyed their day.
For our unit for this term we are studying gardening and growing which will then lead into a study on 5+ a day and fruit and vegetables.
In the first week of term we read the big book called, "The Sunflower Tree," and did paintings of sunflowers and wrote stories about these. Feel free to come in and look at the children's great work. We also planted some giant sunflower seeds.
We read the book, "The Great Bean Race," and are trying different ways of looking after them to find out what grows best. Some of the seeds are in normal soil and some in seed-raising mix, some are getting watered and some aren't, some are in the daylight and some in the dark. We have also planted some rocket, cucumber, lettuce and tomato seeds.
