Outdoor Learning at YWJS

Year 4 enjoying planting fruit and vegetables and looking for mini beasts in our pond.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 Stone Age Day

Year 3 spent a whole day studying Stone Age life. These 5 videos Show them experiencing foraging, weaving, cave painting shelter building and making fire. They had a great day.

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - Stone Age Day

Summer Term 2021 - Year 3 - Gardening

We have been planting sunflower seeds. We will be using them over the next few weeks to investigate what plants need to survive. Watch this space!

Summer Term 2021 - Class 6G - Classifying Living Things

Using the School Pond and School Grounds as a resource we collected a variety of living things and began to classify them.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 4 - Mayan Culture

We have been studying Mayan culture. This has involved outdoor learning, history, food technology and a lot of fun!

Spring Term 2021 - Year 4 - Gardening

We planted seeds in the vegetable garden and also had a look at the tadpoles collected from our pond.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 5 Visit The Pond

Our first trip to the pond this year. We observed what was going on. Then we did some pond-dipping and collected frog spawn and tadpoles.

Spring Term 2021 - Year 5 - Orienteering

Have you ever navigated an orienteering course whilst being chased by aliens? This was the challenge for Year 5 on a sunny March afternoon. Year 5 enjoyed following a route using their map skills whilst racing against their peers. However, they had to be careful of three pupils wearing alien hats. If they were caught, they would have to hand their map over and become an alien themselves! Much fun was had by all.

Spring Term 2 - Year 5 - The End of the Anglo-Saxons

We finished this topic re-enacting the defeat of the Anglo-Saxons by the Normans.

Spring Term 2021 - 6G - Gardening

6G are growing a herb garden.

Spring Term 2021 - 6G - Shading Techniques

6G are studying the work of Michelle Hughes, the Yorkshire lino print artist. Here is their introductory work.

Autumn 2020 - Year 6 - Learning French outside

Year 4 Roman army battle formations

Year 4 used the Roman shields they made to practise the different Roman army battle formations that they would have carried out in battle. We did this indoors because of the rain.