This spectacular drone footage shows humpback whales "socialising" off West Cork. 🐳🐳🐳 The video was captured by the Irish Whale and Dolphin Group for a new research project. Read more: bit.ly/2WiMU2L

Well the 3SD caterpillars have finally been named. I give you Rosie, Tribbles, Bongo, Geoffrey and Inky. Their names were suggested and selected by the children.

The children enjoyed Mr D’s 5 block challenge today in Scratch programming. I can’t wait to hear and discuss their ideas/solutions as to how we can make our Sprite jump rather than walk across the screen.

Some fantastic half term projects. From, aspiring bakers, hoteliers, vets (who make heart shape cakes), Britain’s Got Talent judges, professional footballers, ...even teachers ...the possibilities are limitless and this is just Tuesday... I can’t wait to see what’s next.

I give you the aspiring footballer and 👩‍🏫

Some great investigations this week in Science. We recreated self-dispersing seeds by using blown up balloons and rolled up paper (our seeds) to investigate the effects different levels of pressure have on the distribution of seeds.

Many thanks to Teresa May for talking to Y3 about photography as a career. Really interesting and a great start to our Careers’ Week in Somers Park.

Year 3 had a brilliant day at the Stratford Butterfly Farm and got to experience the same conditions as a tropical rainforest. It was also brilliant to learn about butterflies like how they taste things while observing other creatures you may find in a tropical rainforest.

Great fun and games at Somers Park with our annual Tanga rounders’ game. So lovely to play with smiles on our faces with our wonderful friends from Tanga.

Finally, the weather cleared for us to complete our fair test to assess whether colour, scent or sugar water on our card flowers proved more appealing to🐝 and other insects. Why not ask your children how we made it a fair test and what the results were?

Many thanks to Dr Tim Wright for giving our final careers’ talk this week. The children were fascinated to learn about what geologists do and how important a job it is too.

Wow! What a great lesson the children had in 3SD learning how to count to ten in Swahili as well as learning about wild animals that live in Tanzania. See if your children can remember how to say ‘lion’ and which way around the nouns and numbers go in Swahili.

The children loved our rainforest art work with Mr Ivan Jones today. Some great tips and suggestions on perspective in drawings and how to draw lightly in order to use a rubber effectively. We can’t wait for his return on Thursday when we can paint our work.

Some really fantastic painting today as the children (mostly) completed their rainforest paintings today with Mr Jones. It was f@scinating to learn about how to prevent bleeding of colours when shading and how it’s important to have enough water on brushes. Tx Mr Jones.

What a lovely Hills’ Walk today. The children did brilliantly with the adults really appreciating how patient and well behaved they were. Thanks to Mrs Russell for organising it.

Well done to the Y4 cricket 🏏 team who were gallant runners up in today’s Worcestershire finals hosted at The Bromsgrove School. The children conducted themselves brilliantly representing Somers Park superbly.

Year 3 had great fun today learning how to ask for a variety of different ice cream flavours in French. Test them to see if they can tell you some of the flavours they researched.

What a great French week we’ve had what with learning how to order ice cream, croissants and pain au chocolat in French along with learning about Ma Famille and how to say (and play)our favourite sports in French along with visiting Le Delice boulangerie. Magnifique!

Just a quick one to say thank you to all the children, parents and staff I've been lucky enough to work and play with. It has been a huge privilege. You will be missed.

Welcome back everyone, it has been a fantastic first week at Colley Lane! Miss Hale