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World War Two Production
Performing Arts Showcase!
Class Six spent last half term working on a fantastic performance piece with our music teacher Ms. Crowley. Their performance included acting, singing, choreography, playing of musical instruments and poetry. All of this was done within the context of World War 2.…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 13 January 2018
Tags: Class 6
Star of the Week
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Winter Explorer Day
Class R had an amazing day being Winter explorers. We worked in teams to create dens to shelter us from the cold. We selected where we wanted to build our dens and used a range of materials.
We also rescued a penguin from ice. As it was such a cold day the sun did not help us melt the…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Reception
Winter
Winter has come to Class R!
The children have been thinking about signs of winter. They enjoyed sharing the book 'Jack Frost' and drew pictures using chalks. They also looked at cold colours and used powder paints to create different shades of blue.
In the playdough area the…
Category: Class of 2018
Christmas Cards
As part of our WW2 topic we have been looking at the official war artist Henry Moore. During the war, his studio and art supplies were destroyed in a bombing raid so he used his niece's wax crayons and watercolours to create pictures of the people who sheltered in the London Underground stations…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 14 December 2017
Tags: Class 6
Bar Modelling Maths
We have been looking at the mathematical strategy of bar modelling to solve word problems. This method allows children to visualise concepts and problems using 'bars'. During this particular lesson we used a variety of coloured post it notes to respresent our bars - this meant we could change the…
Posted by Miss Prankard on 3 December 2017
Tags: Class 6
Debating!
Last Friday afternoon, Mr Waddington from Harehills Primary School came to class 5 and launched our debate topic of Mayan farmers can protect themselves better than Mayan Nobles, which also links with our ‘Keeping Safe’ theme. The children had so much fun and were so enthusiastic as we started…
Tags: Class 5
Star of the Week
Category: Star of the week
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Fossil Finder
This afternoon we were incredibly lucky to have a special visitor come and see us at school. Mr Briggs (a dad and Govenor at the school) heard about the fact that we were studying the famous fossil finder Mary Anning and brought us in a collection of the fossils that he has discovered over time at…
Category: Class of 2016
Tags: Class 2
Gingerbread Men
In Class R we made gingerbread men. This is our first cooking session with Mrs Legault. We were learning the cooking skills of using a sieve and a cutter.
Whilst we were making our gingerbread men we sang along to our Christmas songs. We loved taking the gingerbread men home to…
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Reception
Class Visitor for Eid
Today the class enjoyed learning about Eid. They loved seeing their class mate dress up in their special clothes. The children were interested to learn about the gifts that are given at Eid.
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Reception
Zulu Warriors
Class R enjoyed our visit from the Zulu Warriors. The drum was very loud but once we got used to it we enjoyed the dancing and singing. The men were very funny and were amazing dancers.
We really enjoyed joining in with the clapping and singing.
Category: Class of 2018
Tags: Reception