Matchborough First School Academy
Home PageMatchborough First School Academy
Home PageSummer Term - Sweet Treats
Learning Leaflets
Sweet Treats!
Our topic for the whole summer term is 'Sweet Treats'. We are starting off our topic with activities and learning linked to the book 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl. The children are enjoying listening to the story at the end of each day. In English, we will be imagining that we are the lucky winners of a Golden Ticket and have visited Willy Wonka's factory! We will be describing the Chocolate Room, writing a setting description.
In other lessons, over the coming weeks, we will be learning about the history of exploration, including the discovery of chocolate by Europeans. We will be learning where chocolate comes from and locating chocolate producing regions on a map. In science, we will focus on tropical rainforest habitats, learning about the animals and plants that live there. We will be naming, labelling, describing, comparing and sorting animals into groups. In Art and DT we will be designing packaging for a sweet invention, in the style of Pop Artist Andy Warhol.
We are also currently busy creating a Sweet Shop in our role play area.
What a lot of learning we have to squeeze into our final term! Keep taking a look here, to see some of the work that we are doing.
Cadbury World Trip (10.06.25)
What a fantastic time we all had on our trip to the Chocolate Factory (Cadbury World)! The children all behaved beautifully, and were great ambassadors for MFSA. Well done all!
Here are just some of the activities from our day:
- Walking through the jungle area, learning about where chocolate grows and about the early explorer Hernan Cortes, who brought cacao beans back to Europe from the Americas.
- Learning about the beginnings of chocolate and Cadbury & Sons company. Experiencing what happens to cacao beans as they are processed into chocolate as we know it.
- Watching chocolate being tempered and put into chocolate moulds, and having a go at this ourselves.
- Writing our names and drawing pictures with melted chocolate!
- Eating a little pot of melted chocolate with two toppings of our choice.
- The 4D chocolate cinema experience - a rollercoaster ride through a magical chocolate world.
- Another chocolate ride where we had to zap cacao beans and milk to help the Cadbury workers to make chocolate
- And finally.... lunch and a play in the Aztec Playground.
What a busy day! I am sure there will be some tired children tonight! Take a look at the pictures below to see some of the highlights.
Cadbury World Trip (10.06.25)
Strawberries! (02.06.25)
All the lovely weather has really helped our class garden plants grow. We have had a bumper crop of strawberries. We picked the ripe strawberries this morning and enjoyed them at morning snack-time. We counted 50 in total! They were so juicy! Hopefully we will get some more over the next few weeks.
Strawberries!
