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Welcome back after what I hope was a fantastic half term for all of you. Below are our top 4 moments from our first week of Spring Term 2.

1. We began our new English topic of The Jabberwocky. The Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. This week we read through the poem…

We have had a great first week back after half term and enjoyed some new learning in Mathematics and English. We have been reading the BFG in English and designing our own giants. In Mathematics, we have been learning how to use the short and long methods for division. In RE, we have been looking…

Highlights of our week

1. We spoke to the Preston Fire Service, who showed us how to drop and roll. 

2. We listened to and wrote our own poetry. 

3. We have learnt how to round numbers to the nearest multiple of 10.

4. We have been learning about significant nurses…

Run, run as fast as you can…

What a great first week back after the half term break. We hope you all had a lovely rest and are super excited for a busy term.

This week we have been focussing on the Story the Gingerbread man. We have had a brilliant week.

• Reading the…

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…

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…