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Highlights of our week

1. On Thursday we remembered those who bravely fought for our country during the wars. 

2. We have learnt about orang-utans in English, reading the non-fiction book "All About Orang-utans".

3. We have been learning about ordering and comparing numbers with Mr…

Week 1 of Autumn Term 2 in Rainbow Class

1. We had a special Diwali workshop with an expert named Jaz. 

2. We learnt about Bonfire Night safety.

3. We created art work based on Bonfire Night and Fireworks. 

4. We created a Diwali dance. 

5. We learnt about different sounds in…

In Mathematics, we have been looking at our mental maths skills and code breakers.

In English, we been writing about our half term and reading our new class book - The Ice Monster.

In Art, we have been making Diya lamps to celebrate Diwali and Bonfire art with oil pastels.

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It's been a short but sweet week in Bronze class this week but we have certainly fit a lot of fun and learning in! 

On Wednesday we learnt all about the celebration of Diwali and enjoyed lots of fun activities including designing our own mendhi henna patterns, creating rangoli patterns,…

Three delightful days in Moonbeam Class:

We have made Diwali cards in the hall with Jazz - Virtue

We learnt Diwali dances – Junior

We talked about being safe around a bonfire – Hunter

We have painted Diwali cards – Essie

We made Rangoli patterns – Kevin

We made a Diwali…

This weeks top 5 moments have been:

1. PE - we have absolutely loved doing dance to the songs from The Greatest Showman. There are some pictures in our gallery that you can view. We are building up to make a performance to film and show. 

2. Maths - we have begun our new topic all about…

I hope everyone has had a wonderful half term and done lots of fun things, but also had chance to relax after a really busy first half term.

Here is a top 4 of things we have done in our first few days back.

1. We have started our Gymnastics unit in PE. This week we practised and performed…

We have had a wonderful first half term in Moonbeam Class and we have loved every part of being together.

During our final week we have enjoyed:

• Using a number line to add two numbers together.
• Exploring similarities and differences between animals.
• Placing toys from the past and…

And Whoosh they were gone….

This week’s story was Room on the Broom and we have thoroughly enjoyed reading it, watching it and discussing our favourite parts. We have performed the story with musical instruments for each character.

We have enjoyed finding out all about pumpkins and have had…

1. We have really enjoyed our Art topic looking at Van-Gogh. We have made a class image of ‘Starry Night’, sketched in 3D Van-Gogh’s famous chair and used to collage to recreate his ‘Iris’ painting.
2. In our poetry topic we have learnt lots of different things and really enjoyed writing our own…

In English this week we concluded our Iron Man topic by writing our Interview Transcripts. In these we tried to change the formality between our characters by using formal and informal language, by carefully selecting appropriate punctuation and by switching between expanded and contracted form.…

This week we have really focused on mental maths skills during our mathematics lessons. We have concentrated on ensuring that we are able to answer addition and subtraction questions mentally and not just rely on column addition and subtraction. We have been learning how to use counting up and…