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We can’t believe we are half way through the year already.

At the beginning of our week we continued to be word detectives! We explored and identified different types of nouns and then used the prefix ‘un’ at the beginning of words and researched their new meanings.

In…

We have had lots of fun in Year 5 this week. We have been looking at well-being and how we can make each other smile. We have carried on learning all about the Great Plague in history. Have been learning how to translate shapes in Mathematics and all about tessellation in computing.

We…

We have had a fantastic final week of Spring Term 1 in Gold Class. As always it has been a very busy week, which has rounded off a busy half term. However, whilst being busy, we have also learnt lots and had lots of fun.

1. On Monday we created our own Mayan Xocolatl, which is the Mayan…

What a busy final week we have had of this half term! 

The children have worked very hard in all our subjects this week but here are just a few of the things we have been doing.

1) Ross McWilliam came to visit us on Thursday as part of well-being week. The children have discussed what…

This week has been all about our well-being.

1. An assembly from Ross, talking about how to look after ourselves and celebrating one another.
2. We made hearts filled with compliments and positive things about our friends and teachers in Moonbeam Class.
3. The children renamed our class…

It has been a celebration of well-being this week. 

Highlights of the week - 

1. Made a 'Jar of Hearts' with special messages on. 

2. We made other people in school happy. 

3. Listened to and sang "Sweet Caroline" and "Thank You For Being a Friend"

4. We experienced a group guided…

1. We spent the week learning about Harry Potter in English. We read the early chapters of ‘The Philosopher’s Stone’ up to when Hagrid gives Harry his letter of invitation to Hogwarts. We then placed ourselves in Harry’s shoes and created our own letter of response to Dumbledore – either accepting…

Highlights of our week

1. We learnt all about the traditions of Chinese New Year.

2. We created a Chinese New Year dance celebrating the dragon. 

3. We created a gold and red dragon. 

4. We have created red letters of positivity. 

5. We ended our week with a…

Today we have celebrated Chinese New Year with Sunshine and Rainbow Class. We have celebrated with a banquet, dragon dances and a parade around School displaying all of our wonderful decorations.

Highlights or our week

1. We have been inspired Samuel Pepys’ diary about the Great Fire of…

This week we have been working hard to learn more about the weather and where in the UK would have which weather. We have been really clever finding out that low temperatures mean it is cold and high temperatures mean it is hot. We even enjoyed dressing up to read out our weather reports and some…

Another week of amazing adventures...

1. We have been making modern art sculptures based on natural artists. 

2. We have been catching and throwing in PE.

3. We have explored more about chocolate, written super sentences and read to retrieve. 

4. We have learnt about fractions of…

Our blog this week is by all of Moonbeam Class.

• In English we have made our own storyboards to retell the story of the Three Little Pigs. We have also written labels and captions for different characters.
• We have looked at the seasonal changes of spring and summer in Science.
• We have…