Making Christmas cards… in October!
Class 5 had a lot of fun creating their Christmas cards but they also put a LOT of care into making them! They really wanted to make something they, and [...]
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10, 2021
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10, 2021
Year 1 and the Mystery Box
The children in Year 1 had a lot of fun in STEM using their sense of touch to try and identify the secret objects contained in the mystery box. I was very impressed by their skills of deduction - they recognised all the objects in the box. I did also sense a Generation Game [...]
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10, 2021
Design and Technology – getting serious with our designs.
I was delighted to see Class 5 took their design brief, to meticulously design a reinforced cuboid, very seriously. They want to achieve and they now realise that good planning and good [...]
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10, 2021
Design and Technology – getting stuck in, literally!
Class 5 have had to get their design 'hat' on this term! Here, we started to look at how we can reinforce a structure. An additional skill was looking at 2D 'nets' of [...]
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10, 2021
Class 5s Super Science Skills: predict, experiment, conclude!
I have been delighted to discover Class 5 is full of scientists ! We have been conducting experiment after experiment this term, to determine the properties of different materials, and they have shown themselves to make excellent predictions and conclusions. [...]
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09, 2021
The stories Class 5 are enjoying this term…..
Twitch! This is the fabulous book by MG Leonard (author of the Beetle Boy trilogy and the Adventure on a Train mystery series) that you may have seen at home! We have been ploughing our way through this mystery and we're nearly at the end.... hopefully you've been reading [...]
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09, 2021
Our Annual Autumn Walk
Reception thoroughly enjoyed their Autumn walk on Wednesday. From splashing in muddy puddles, trip-trapping across slippery bridges, to hunting high and low for spiders and ladybirds, we all had a rather blustery fun time. [...]
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09, 2021
This week in Year 1
This week in Year 1 The children spent some time practising their art skills with paint. We looked at 3 different brush strokes and talked about the effects and texture they gave on the page. [...]
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Class 2 have been learning about Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. We recreated Scott’s expedition on the playground, starting on his ship, Terra Nova, where we had to shovel lots of coal to burn through the ice pack. At last, we spotted Antarctica. Then we built a hut to live in through [...]