One-eyed Sunshiners....ARGH!

This week we have celebrated World Book Day. 

Throughout the day we:

- Made treasure maps and found treasure

- Make pirate swords

- Took part in a pirate dance and sang pirate themed songs

- Pirate headhunters

- Enjoyed drama performances in assembly by KS2

- Shared lots of…

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The Hooded Man

We started to learn all about Robin Hood:

Here is some information about him: 

  • He lived in Sherwood Forest as an outlaw. 
  • He wore green, lincoln green, to blend into the forest.
  • His biggest enemy was the Sheriff of Nottingham.
  • Robin Hood was a famous archer.
  • He stole from the rich…
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Word Detectives

An amazing first week back

In Science this week we started our new topic all about plants, we went on a walk around school to look for different types of plants.

In Geography we started looking at all different types of weather, and how to identify the different types of weather.  

In…

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You need to find the ewe next to the yew tree!

Welcome back! Can you believe we are already into Spring Term 2! 

Here are our top 5 moments of the week:

1) "We are learning about homophones in SPAG! Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meaning - for example due and dew or grate and great." - Cruz

The title of…

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Friday Fun

Another fun filled week in Diamond Class this week. We have started reading a new book in English called The Explorer, where we have made predictions about what we think the text will be about. In Geography, we have started our new topic of Australia and we have located where it is on a map. In…

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Where would you like to live?

This week the children in Bronze class have been busy writing their non-chronological reports answering the question ‘Where would you like to live?’ 
We have been busy this half term learning about different countries and cultures around the world before choosing our own country to research. We…

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Future writers in Moonbeam Class!

This week in history we finished off our Great Fire of London subject with a quiz, we all really enjoyed learning about the Great Fire of London!

Science we finished off our materials topic ready to start a new one after half term.

In Maths we have been learning how to halve and divide…

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Dazzling Diamonds

This week in Diamond Class, we have been looking at multiplication and division of 10, 100 and 1000. In English, we have written a poem ready to perform to our peers. We also enjoyed helping Year 2 type up their stories and then had the pleasure of listening to them read their finished story. In…

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Marvellous Moonbeam

M – Maths we have been doubling.

O – Our History topic about the Great Fire of London is coming to an end so we have been looking at the difference in houses and jobs from 1666.

O – One of our Phonics sounds this week was ea/ee/ey.  

N – No mistakes for us in Science we know the…

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Diamond Class Weekly Blog

Well we have had another great week in Diamond Class this week. We have been looking at multiplication in mathematics and looking at the grid method. In English, we have started a poetry unit, where we have performed stanzas of the poem to our peers using expression and adding actions. In history,…

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Ruby and Helen's top 5 moments of the week

Our Top 5 moments of the week - Blog post by Ruby and Helen

1) "We have been researching where we would like to live. I want to live in Kenya." - Helen

2) "We have been subtracting 2 digit numbers from 3-digit numbers in mental maths." - Ruby

3) "In PE we have been playing bench ball and…

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Chinese New Year Celebrations

Where did this week go?

It has been a celebration this week in Moonbeam Class. On Tuesday we celebrated Chinese New Year by making lanterns, masks and pictures. We had a Chinese buffet, we tried noodles, rice, curry sauce and spring rolls. We found out it is the year of the snake this year…

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