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Learning about the Holocaust

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In our topic and reading lessons this week, we explored the tragic, but important subject of the Holocaust. The children learnt the escalation of events designed to persecute Jewish citizens in Nazi-occupied Europe and minority groups. We then had an interesting and thought-provoking discussion…

Posted by Miss Prankard on 17 October 2019

Tags: Class 6

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African Residents

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Year 5 have had two residents this half term. As part of our topic on Our World, had two African Snails come to stay. 

 

 

Posted by Miss Alexandra on 17 October 2019

Category: Class of 2014

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Year 4 String Telephone Experiment

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Year 4 had great fun making string telephones in science to help them understand how sound vibrations travel over distance through solid objects. 

 

Category: Class of 2015

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Harvest Festival

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A proud teacher moment - Class Three wowed the school with their brilliant harvest festival performance. Fantastic speaking skills from everyone. 

Category: Class of 2016

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Harvest Festival

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Reception children did a wonderful performance to the whole school of ‘Big Red Combine Harvester’ this morning during our Harvest Festival assembly. 

Posted by Liz Veverka on 14 October 2019

Category: Class of 2019

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Year 4 Harvest Festival

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This week in the Harvest Festival assembly year 4 had great fun presenting  Haiku poems they had carefully written about harvest time and autumn. 

"Haiku" is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines, the first and last lines have 5 syllables and the middle line has…

Category: Class of 2015

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What have we been up to this week? (W/C 7th October)

This half term in Class One we have been assisting Queen Elizabeth II by writing instructions to help her catch her hat and make a new one. We have all written incredible instructions and learnt about all the features of an instruction text. This week we finished our second set of instructions to…

Posted by Mrs Eggleston on 13 October 2019

Category: Class of 2018

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Exploring WW2 Newspapers

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Year 6 have been identifying features of a newspaper by exploring a variety of War papers. A wonderful lesson mixing English with History with some fascinating reads! 

 

Posted by Miss Prankard on 11 October 2019

Tags: Class 6

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Stars of the Week

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Showing our maths

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On Tuesday we began addition and subtraction. We used counters to show the place value columns and add on counters to create new 6 digit numbers. This helped the children add mentally in following lessons and understand the difference between numbers.

Posted by Miss Alexandra on 10 October 2019

Category: Class of 2014

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Year 4 Times Table Rock Stars

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Year Four have been working really hard on their times tables and they can't wait to appear on our times table Rock Star Hall of Fame display!

 

Category: Class of 2015

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SITE - Building Model Shelters

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The children have been carrying out research in SITE this week to support their understanding of habitats in the local environment. Our class project is to help a local farmer build safe shelters for different animals to hibernate in throughout winter. The children have been investigating the…

Category: Class of 2017

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