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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…

We had a celebration of the Harvest Festival.

Top 5 moments of the week

1. We celebrated our Harvest Festival with music and readings in a special assembly.

2. In Mathematics, we learnt how to use column subtraction.

3. We have been writing our non-fiction report about…

This week in English we have started our new unit of poetry. We have been looking at rhythm and rhyme and discussing what we enjoy in each poem. Our favourite poem has been Full of surprises by Paul Cookson. We have enjoyed using our imagination when telling each other what we would like to come…

In PE this week we continued to practise a range of balances on the mats as well as practising how to jump on and off benches. We also got the vaults out and practised mounting the vaults, travelling onto the vaults and jumping from the vaults, again practising a range of jumps.

In Science this…

In Mathematics, we have been learning about angles and how to measure them with a protractor. We know they are called acute, obtuse, reflex, right angle and straight line.

In English, we have read Friend or Foe.

In science, we made a life size solar system with fruit and toilet roll.

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This week we have really explored Autumn time and how the environment around us is changing. We have collected conkers which we then used in our creative activities and to help us with counting and Maths work; finding 7,8 9 and 10. In English we created Autumn poetry using our senses. Every key…