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9 February 2018

Maya Instruments!

This week Year 3 have been taking inspiration from the Maya and been making instruments. First children designed their instruments using the materials they brought in from home and then they made them! Children either made a drum, a flute or a shaker.

 

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9 February 2018

Kenning Poems

In year 4 this week we have had a focus on poetry. 

The children looked at a Kenning poem. Yesterday they wrote their own poem about the Maya which is our current history topic. 

Then today the children performed their poems in groups or to the rest of the class using the correct intonation,…

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9 February 2018

DT and RE in Year 2

 

This half term Year Two have been looking at Judaism and the festivals of Hanukkah and Sukkot. As a class we thought that we would look at what foods the Jewish people would have to celebrate the end of Hanukkah. We decided to make potato latkes as part of our DT curriculum: To use a wide…

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9 February 2018

Pancakes - Science and DT

Year 5's science topic is properties and changes of materials.  This week we have been looking at irreversible changes.  To help the children understand this a little better, they made pancakes.  They looked at the ingredients needed, mixed them to form a batter then heated it through frying to…

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9 February 2018

Celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception Class

We have had a fantastic week celebrating Chinese New Year in Reception Class. The children have been trying on traditional Chinese clothing.

The children have heard the story of how the years got their names. We have been learning about how Chinese New Year is celebrated and also making Chinese…

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9 February 2018

Reaching The Sun!

WOW!

Even more readers have reached the SUN!

Congratulations!

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9 February 2018

What's Cooking?

In RE, we have been learning all about the Passover and the special food that is eaten during the Passover meal to remind the Jews of their escape into the Wilderness.  At the celebratory meal, flat bread is eaten.  It remained flat as the Jews did not have time to wait for the bread to rise,…

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7 February 2018

Secret Story Teller in year 4

We have been fortunate in welcoming several secret story tellers into our class over this half term. The children have had a wide range of books read to them and were totally engrossed in the books shared by our different story tellers.  

Thank you for giving up your time to share books with…

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6 February 2018

Year 5 - Safer Internet Day

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Today Year 5 have been learning more about how to keep themselves safe on line.  The children started the session collecting information about themselves, such as name, address, school etc.  They were then asked to share that information with the other children in the class.  After a few…

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6 February 2018

Food Chains

WWBBA: Animals including Humans 

S.C: I can draw a food chain - identifying producer, predator and prey. 

In Science today we played lots of games, which helped us to understand how food chains work. We played a food chain loop game, where we were each given a card with a plant or animal on…

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3 February 2018

Class Blogs

I love reading all the class blogs each week.This week I especially enjoyed reading the Year 1 class blog written by Mr Thomas about using the iPads.

This selfie of India and Lucas definitely made me smile!

You can see more brilliant phots that the children took by clicking on the link…

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2 February 2018

Playground games in Reception Class

 

This week in Reception we have been enjoying some outdoor PE with a focus on playground games. Playground games help children to develop skills in Personal, Social and Emotional Development, Physical Development and Communication.

The children also had a lot of fun learning some new games.…

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