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Minibeasts survey

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Class 2 had a brilliant afternoon learning all about microhabitats and minibeasts. We went to the outdoor classroom and completed a survey of the pond and woodland areas before adding up our tally for each animal. Back in the classroom, Class 2 worked really hard to create a pictogram to present…

Category: Class of 2018

Tags: Class 2 Science

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Digging up our victory carrots!

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Class six spent some of their morning digging up the carrots from their victory garden. This was something we planted up in the Summer during a transitional moving up afternoon. We learnt about the Dig for Victory campaign in Britain, then planted up carrots in our outdoor classroom. This week, we…

Posted by Miss Prankard on 16 November 2020

Category: Class of 2014

Tags: Class 6 History

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United against bullying!

Class 4 kickstarted their Anti-bullying week, wearing odd socks and engaging in an online Assembly by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. They enjoyed all the music and interactive discussions before then deciding what the important message was to them. Ultimately, they came up with 'there is not one…

Posted by Beth Ings on 16 November 2020

Category: Class of 2016

Tags: Class 3/4 PSHE

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J'ai École

Every week, Class 4 throw themselves into their French learning. Miss Ings is always impressed by their willingness to learn, have a go and their can do attitude! It is difficult to learn a new language but even harder when we begin looking at the grammatical concepts! 

This week, we were…

Posted by Beth Ings on 16 November 2020

Category: Class of 2016

Tags: Class 3/4 French

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Watercolouring!

Who gets watercolours out on a Friday afternoon when the children are in their own clothes? Class 4 do! 

We had a great afternoon exploring with watercolours in our art lesson; the children experimented by creating a colour chart in their books starting with dark and fading to light. The…

Posted by Beth Ings on 13 November 2020

Category: Class of 2016

Tags: Class 3/4 Art

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Class 4 does Children in Need!

Miss Ings and Mrs Turner are super impressed with the efforts from everyone to celebrate Children in Need. We used this opportunity to discuss those who need extra support and why this charity is important.

 

Posted by Beth Ings on 13 November 2020

Category: Class of 2016

Tags: Class 3/4

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Children in Need

Today, Class R have really enjoyed wearing spots for Children in Need. Everybody looked great and we have had lots of fun. We have been colouring in Pudsey Bear, painting with carrots to make spots, making puppets and making Pudsey Bear headbands. We have all had a fantastic day!

Posted by Liz Veverka on 13 November 2020

Category: Class of 2020

Tags: Reception Art

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Class 3 Music

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Class 3 had a fun afternoon doing music with Mrs Crowley. The class enjoyed creating music and rhythms using their hands and feet to create the percussion. Class 3 really enjoyed the last piece of music called 'Stone Age Jam' as it is our history topic this half term. We are really looking forward…

Category: Class of 2017

Tags: Class 3 Year 3 Music

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Exploring texts about dinosaurs

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This week in English we have started learning about non-fiction texts and the children have really enjoyed reading a variety of texts about dinosaurs. We have used our knowledge of the features of non-fiction texts to sort them into fiction and non-fiction!

 

Category: Class of 2018

Tags: Class 2 English

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Homophones!

Class 2 have been working hard in their phonics lessons where we have been focusing on our Phase 5 Alternative sounds! We have now started our spelling lessons and all of the children have really impressed Miss Hole and Miss Ewen with their enthusiasm and understanding of the homophones we have…

Category: Class of 2018

Tags: Class 2 English

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Exploring wartime newspapers

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To start their new writing project (creating a news article on the Dambuster mission of 1943) class 6 used some wartime newspapers to explore key genre features of a newspaper. We really enjoyed using historical artefacts to develop our English knowledge! 

 

Posted by Miss Prankard on 11 November 2020

Tags: Class 6 English History

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Experimenting with Everyday Materials

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Today in Class One we put our investigative skills to the test. We tested the properties of a range of everyday materials, from metal to paper. We were interested to know if these materials were waterproof, shiny, stretchy, transparent and hard. We really enjoyed our afternoon being real…

Posted by Mrs Eggleston on 11 November 2020

Category: Class of 2019

Tags: Class 1 Science

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