This year, we took part in Keep Britain Tidy campaign - Great Big School Clean. Each class went on a litter pick around our local area. We learnt how to do this carefully using gloves and litter pickers and we were very sad with the amount of litter that we collected. 

The children were invited to bring in a bulb from home and we had a lovely afternoon planting summer flowering bulbs in our school planters, especially when we got our hands covered with soil! We learnt which way we needed to put the bulb in the ground and we made sure it was covered with lovely compost before giving them a good drink. We can't wait to see which flowers pop up!

The beginning of term saw us celebrating World Book Day and our love of reading at Goat Lees. We shared stories with our buddy classes, had the opportunity to get a new (to us) book at our book swap events, designed and decorated story-themed hot-air balloons for the library, sampled new books and authors at a book café and by playing musical chairs, created book boxes to showcase books we love and, of course, many of us chose to dress up as a favourite character. The whole school read the story The Bridges, by Tom Percival. It’s about a girl called Mia who feels all alone; so alone that...

We have received a grant from the tree council to plant hawthorne and weeping cherries at the bottom of the field. We are also planting fruit trees at the front of the school so we can grow a community orchard offering fruit to our local community. We were taught how to space them out and how to protect them from being eaten.