It was Year 4’s turn to visit the Floating Classroom for a special ‘Animal Kingdom’ workshop as part of our Living Things & Their Habitats topic in Science.
We travelled by bus to the canal at Paddington where our classroom for the day awaited us. We were welcomed onto the barge by Flora and Zoe who were going to be our experts for the day. To begin we went through some safety rules before playing some get to you games to introduce ourselves.
We then set off down the canal with our first activity being to try and spot different birds on the canal by using our classification sheet to help us. We got to go out on the deck to see a small island which was home to a lot of the birds on our charts. We even managed to see some herons but we had to make sure we were quiet so that we didn’t scare them away.
After a quick snack break, we were then asked tasked to work out if we could classify an animal by what they eat, correctly identify the animals and sort them into some groups. We worked out that there were carnivores (eats meat), herbivores (eats plants) and omnivores (eats both). We had to be quick at putting the animals into the right categories. We also got to play a fun game in that we had to work out what animals were the predator, prey and producers within a food chain and had to act out a freeze frame of that food chain.
After lunch, we got to go through the famous Madia Hill tunnel on the barge which is just over 250m long. Only 1 canal boat can travel through at any time. Even better that we got to go out on deck and see the tunnel up close and look at the stunning features. It took nearly 5 minutes to go through! After passing through the tunnel, the boat moored at a local park and we got to have a run around and play some games with our friends as well as take a group photo!
Our final activity was to play a guess who classification game in which we had to work in teams to try and guess what animal the other team were thinking of. We had to ask questions such as “Is it warm or cold blooded? Does it have smooth or scaly skin?” We then said goodbye and made our way back to school!
Thank you to everyone on the Floating Classroom for such a wonderful experience and providing lots of learning opportunities. Thank you to the parents who accompanied us on the trip also! Your time and help is always appreciated.
What was your favourite part of the Floating Classroom?
OOH !Looks fun y4!I’m sure you all enjoyed yourselves!
Looks like lots of fun ! I hope you had lots of fun.
It was really 🤩 fun! I loved the trip hope to go back there next time!
Yeah this was so fun and we learned so much!!
It was a great day! I was very impressed with how much you all remembered from our science lessons and your engagement throughout the day! Well done year 4
My favourite part was seeing how well you all worked in your groups doing the ‘Guess who’ game and the tunnel, although it got dark and slightly chilly.
Spotting the birds must have been a lot of fun. It looks like you all had a great time!
it was super fun I hope everyone else liked it as much as I did.
That looks very fun. It looks like you’ve learnt lots of things.
I hope all of year four had fun on the floating classroom trip. I looked at your photos and saw how much fun you had. I am so excited to have my trip next Tuesday.
What a great trip Year 4-you are fortunate to experience travelling through the Maida Tunnel as part of your Animal Kingdom workshop.
It was so fun! I loved walking in the mallard feet.
That trip was so good! I can not wait for the next one.
Really fun, one of the best trips I have ever gone on.
I loved the trip to the floating classroom.
Thank you for making superb this school trip. It was amazing.
It was AMAZING. I LOVED IT
How exciting !!!
I love this topic because it is AMAZING !!!
I loved it there, it was amazing! Thank you to all the teachers who organized this trip.
That was such a nice trip , I loved it.
I thoroughly enjoyed this trip! The best parts was when we got to go through the tunnel and when we went bird spotting!
I loved the trip thank you so much.
I loved doing the animal workshop the best part was going under the
tunnel on the front deck of the boat. I loved going to the park to play.
Best trip ever, I really loved it and James’ dance was really funny when we got to dance silly like the Birds of Paradise did and the tunnel was quite spooky.
It was so much fun! I hope we could do it again. I also liked going under the tunnel.
It was so nice for the teachers to take us on this trip.
The tunnel that we went on was so fun and it was exiting.
Thank you teachers.
it was great! We even went through tunnels and had a dance party.
This was a amazing trip on the electric barge.
I liked finding these different ducks.
It looked really fun when you sorted out the animals and going bird spotting looked so fun!
Yes, it was so amazing.
I really liked the trip! It was great fun to spot birds and learn about the canal and the animals.