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Our big question is "Can you keep an Orangutan as a pet"?

In English this week we have been learning about Orangutans. Researching and creating fact files to be able to answer the big question.

"Orangutans like to eat sticks" Harley

"Orangutans need lots of space to swing around"…

A celebration of Remembrance Day, the wild roses and poppies. 

Top 5 moments of the week -

1. Esio Trot - we started reading the book by Roald Dahl. 

2. Counting up in different multiples - in Mathematics, we started counting in steps of 3 and 4 from 0.

3. In Science, we learnt about…

It was great to see everyone back at school with smiles on their faces after the half term. Only three days this week but it was still a very busy week:

1. We finished our Iron Man Interview transcripts, discussing an incident that someone had witnessed involving the Iron Man, Iron Woman…

We have had a short but sweet week with only three days in School.

- We have recapped the sounds ‘ar’ and ‘ear’ in Phonics.

- We created mud pie poems.

- We learnt about counting on in multiples of five in Mathematics.

- We discussed and celebrated our own and others strengths.

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Top Five Moments of the Week -

1. We have learnt about how to be safe on Bonfire Night. 

2. We have read, performed and created poems. 

3. We have been revising our key multiplication skills. 

4. We explored our knowledge of volcanoes, tsunamis and hurricanes. 

5. We have started a…

Our top 5 moments this week

1. Learning all about Orangutans.

2. Counting forwards and backwards in 2’s, 3’s, 5’s and 10’s.

3. Talking all about our own families. 

4. Making Bonfire pictures using lots of glitter.

5. On Friday afternoon we watched the pantomime Beauty and the…

We have had a golden week! 

1. We learnt about bar charts and tally charts. 

2. Listened and performed poems by Roger McGough. 

3. Created our own shadow puppets.

4. Learnt about the Egyptian Gods.

5. Had our last dance lesson with Miss Leah. 

Have a happy half…

In Phonics this week we have had a phonics hunt, finding the oy sounds. We have also had a Phonics pumpkin patch in our outdoor area. The children wrote sounds on them and then on Friday all children carved their own pumpkin to take home. A big thank you to Hunter’s dad for providing the pumpkins…

We have had lots of fun this week in Diamond Class. In English, we have continued to read Friend or Foe and acted out in character roll. In Mathematics, we have been finding the perimeter of composite shapes and we also did some arithmetic questions on Friday. In geography, we had to find human…

This week we have carried out a range of scientific activities linked to our topic of Classification. We firstly classified a range of nonsense creatures based upon their visible characteristics (remembering that the creatures were not real so we could only classify them on visible aspects).

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In Silver Class this week we have been very busy with lots of learning! 

Here are our top 5 moments of the week:

1) "We have been learning about conductors and insulators and making circuits to test different materials." - Isaac

2) "In Maths we have been learning to find the…

This week has been a week of shapes and Harvest.

Really fun week finding shapes all around us

Everybody has made a scarecrow shape picture

Celebrated Harvest in our assembly on Thursday

The LEP took our photo for the newspaper on Thursday

All week we have been reading Percy the…