Rain most definitely did not stop play for our Year Four children on their trip to Juniper Hall, part of the Field Studies Council. The geography field trip, to complement their 'Rivers' topic, was a big success. Year Four teacher, Sophie Lyth, came in out of the rain to give us her report: "It RAINED ALL DAY but the children were great and had a fun time. We looked at the meander of the river and compared the water speed on the outside and inside of the bend and took the opportunity to examine the erosion - something we have been looking at in class." Our lot were not content to stay on dry land though and actually braved the elements to get into the river to take different measurements of speed, width and depth. They then looked at the formation of the oxbow lake.

After all that exertion, the young explorers were in need of some nutrition to feed their inner geographers. "We had lunch on the coach to warm up and then the children made mini rafts, using rope and large sticks. They raced them with a duck on top," continues Miss Lyth.

Back in the classroom, the children are immersing themselves in 'states of matters' in Science, grouping different materials, based on their properties. They also had a go at pretending they were particles! See the pictures of them in the playground, where they are 'solids,' 'gases,' and 'liquids,' respectively. Who needs a lab for science when you've got a playground and children to act out an experiment? When it comes to Maths, they are been looking at place value, multiplication and division.