b"Issue 13 The British School of AmsterdamYear 2 Year 3This term, Year 2 have exploredIn Year 3, the rainforest topic the world around them by learningwas a highlight for the children about animal life cycles and haveas they travelled across the been planting seeds to watchworld to see the different layers them grow and develop theirof this incredible habitat. understanding of what plantsThey created their own rainforests and animals need to survive.on paper and imagined that their As part of their history topic, they haveclassrooms had magically transformed been learning about The Great Fireinto the deepest, darkest Amazon. of London and classrooms have beenThrough this topic they developed their filled with models of Tudor houses.descriptive language and wrote fantastic The children have become news reportersdescriptions of the rainforest. from that time and used stop motionTo bring the learning to life, the year group technology to transport themselves tovisited the Keukenhof and had a great London to report on the Great Fire.day learning about plant growth looking They have enjoyed exploring the workparticularly at seed dispersal, leaves and of famous children's authors as wellroot systems. Setting up experiments as planning, writing, and editing ourto investigate the importance of the own versions of his classic stories.different parts of a plant was great fun as we discovered so much for ourselves. In Art, they made clay sculptures which was aUsing leaves in Art resulted in some messy task, but they were all very proud of thebeautiful Gelli Prints allowing us to see end products and it taught us that focus andthe structure of leaves more clearly determination to finish a project really pays off! whilst also releasing our creativity. YEAR 2CORAL REEF YEAR 3KEUKENHOF11"