From Greedy Seagulls to Giant Mammals – A Bright Start to Summer Learning

Miss Ramsdale • May 2, 2025

From Greedy Seagulls to Giant Mammals – A Bright Start to Summer Learning

Miss Ramsdale • May 2, 2025

Sunny playground science and creative writing have set the tone for an exciting new term


This Week in Mary Ellis Class:

  • Kicked off the summer term full of energy and sunshine
  • Described cheeky seagulls with similes in English
  • Explored addition and subtraction with part-whole and bar models
  • Learned about mammals and their features in Science
  • Used chalk to create giant animal diagrams on the playground

Mary Ellis Class has had an excellent start to the Summer Term! The sunshine has lifted everyone’s spirits and the children returned full of energy and ready to learn.


This week in English, we have been diving into the world of ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. The children focused on describing the mischievous, greedy seagulls using powerful adjectives and imaginative similes. It’s been wonderful to see them bringing their writing to life.


Our young mathematicians have been hard at work exploring addition and subtraction. We’ve used part-part whole models and bar models to represent problems and the children have done a fantastic job writing equations to match. Their confidence with number work is soaring!


All the children have really enjoyed beginning our Science topic on ‘Animals’. On Tuesday we learnt all about mammals and their key features. The children worked in teams to draw chalk outlines of different mammals in the playground and label their features.


We are so excited for a term full of growth, sunshine and exciting discoveries. Thank you for your continued support – we can’t wait to share more of our learning with you.

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