Key Stage 1 and Dinosaurs
Key Stage 1 Classes at Strawberry Fields Primary Study Dinosaurs
The children in the three Key Stage 1 classes at Strawberry Fields Primary are certainly enjoying their term topic all about dinosaurs, fossils and life in the past. The dedicated teaching team have developed a challenging and varied term topic for the pupils.
Studying Dinosaurs
The budding young palaeontologists in Year 1 (class 1MM), have been working out whether “a dinosaur would make a good pet”. Some of the fierce meat-eating dinosaurs we talked about during our school visit, might not make ideal pets, but some of the smaller plant-eaters, (herbivores) might have been better suited. The dinosaurs would certainly have been curious to visit the amazing dinosaur den that had been set up in the classroom, complete with a beautiful crepe paper volcano overlooking it.
A Model of a Volcano on Display in the Classroom
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Bright and Colourful Prehistoric Animal Displays
The children in the three Key Stage 1 classes (1MM, 1/2CE and 2MC), were keen to display their knowledge and explained confidently how the dinosaurs died out. Prior to our workshops, we provided some additional resources and we emailed over to the school a lesson plan that we had devised that examined the question “why do asteroids always land in craters”? This lesson plan and the other materials we provided were aimed at supporting the school’s scheme of work and to engage the children with the concept of “scientific working”.
Lots of Brightly Coloured Prehistoric Animals on Display Around the Spacious Classrooms
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A Three-dimensional Dinosaur Model
In the tidy and well-appointed classrooms, our dinosaur expert who visited the school spotted lots of excellent examples of the children’s work. There was even a three-dimensional model of the head of a Triceratops looking down on the display boards in one of the classrooms. These display boards were rapidly becoming filled with examples of the children’s non-chronological reports, questions that they had researched about dinosaurs, fact sheets and plenty of colourful prehistoric animal themed artwork.
The Head of a Triceratops Looks Down on the Class Display Boards
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Our very best wishes to all the young palaeontologists in Key Stage 1 at Strawberry Fields Primary and also to the hard-working teaching team that had put together such an exciting and challenging term topic for the children.
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