Returning to school after our half term holiday, it was wonderful to feel the sun on our faces. The crocuses in the playground told us Spring had sprung. In the classroom we have been delving deeper into our topic on nurturing nurses. Mary Seacole was properly introduced to the children. When discovering British soldiers in Crimea were becoming ill with cholera, Mary Seacole travelled to the War Office in London to ask if she could join Florence Nightingale in Scutari. Her

help was refused by both the War Office and then the Crimean Fund. The children found out how she made her own way to the Crimea. The children discovered why Mary became known as Mother Seacole and that she set up a trading post and hospital called the British Hotel very near the battlefield.

The children have been identifying different forces, we have focussed on a push or a pull that will create or stop a movement. As the term progresses, the children will start to identify the forces in different situations noting that many need contact for the force to be applied. Lots of exciting experimentation to try out their theories will take place in the following weeks.