Moonbeam Class

We have been busy bees this week!

This week we have finished our English fictional topic of fantastic voyages. We have compared the two main characters from each of our texts and looked at similarities and differences between them. On Friday we acted out ‘Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary’ and the…

“We have added numbers using arrays and place value” – Oliver

“We have learnt more about Hindu worship and about the main bit of the temple” – Vaishvik

“Our new book is Dougal’s Deep-Sea Diary” – Junior

“We described a setting called Atlantis” – Jessica  

“We read…

Our top moments of the week:
- We have looked at place value for the first time in Mathematics this week and the children have done AMAZINGLY well! We are all very proud of them.

- We have written a persuasive piece of writing in English, trying to persuade people to visit Bob on the moon.…

Our focus in Mathematics this week has been 3D shapes.

We have:
- Made 3D shape models

- Learnt about their properties including vertices, edges and faces

- Incorporated our knowledge of 2D shapes to describe the shape faces on a 3D shape

- Found everyday objects in the environment…

Welcome back! We hope you all had a wonderful Easter break and enjoyed the lovely weather over the bank holiday weekend.

We started off Summer Term with a trip to the moon! We were all very excited as we prepared for our flight in the rocket through space and up to the moon. We tried some…

A beautiful week

What a beautiful week we have had in Moonbeam Class this week, both with the weather and with each other.

Highlights of our week:

- In Science we went on a plant hunt for wild and garden plants around the School grounds.

- We have identified half of a 2D shape…

We like to move it, move it

We started off our week with a P.E day in the hall. We did circuit training, mile a day, zumba and yoga. We had an amazing day and the children were very enthusiastic with all the different activities. We were all ready for a rest by the end of the day!

Also this…

A glorious week

1. We have started to look at multiplying in Maths. This week we have focused on our 2 and 5 times tables, counting on in multiples of 2 and 5 and then solving multiplication questions.
2. We explored how different types of weather can affect us in Geography.
3. In Science we…

Magical Moonbeamers

On Tuesday we celebrated World Book Day. We were dressed up as witches and wizards as our class and key stage theme was centred on ‘Room on the Broom’ by Julia Donaldson. We turned invisible as we went on a stick hunt to then make our own magical wands, we wrote a spooky…

Welcome back!

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…

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…

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…