SELF PORTRAITS

Have you seen the book ‘Super Duper You’ by Sophie Henn? It is a great book for helping children to understand what is special about themselves and to build confidence. The book follows two siblings, with the older one explaining the wonderfully complex character of their younger sibling. The book explores feeling angry, silly or frustrated when things just aren’t quite right. We asked our younger children to look at themselves and draw selfportraits, whilst talking about how wonderful they are and what makes them unique. As the book says “Be bold, be proud, be brilliant”.

We ran a whole-school Bug Week last summer, with many diferent learning activities ofered to pupils of all ages. Younger learners had the chance to share ‘The Hungry Caterpillar’ with older pupils, which brought back fond memories of a much-loved book. We thought about how we could rewrite the book with food that we like. Elsie in Year 6 created a fantastic book for younger children and read over Zoom to share it.

Dr Stuart Wood from ‘Meet the Beasts’ joined us online to show us many diferent kinds of insects and reptiles. We also raised caterpillars in school, watching as they went through their life-cycle until we finally released them as butterflies. Children enjoyed learning about the diferent ways insects eat and drink and many other interesting facts. Some children designed their own super insects. We loved learning about insects together.

During Bug Week, pupils also had the chance to create their own Top Trumps cards. Pupils used their imagination to create their own mythical creatures based on what they had learned about insects:

Distillation

Chromatography

Sieving

Magnetism

Filtration

Evaporation