What time is it?!

Here are our top 5 moments of a very busy and quick week! 

"We have been learning about tsunamis in Geography. A tsunami is a giant wave." - Oliver

"In Science we have been testing which things were reflective." - Sapphire

"In PE we have been doing gymnastics. We got the apparatus out and…

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Matchstalk Men

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We have completed our Lowry portraits and these are now being proudly displayed outside the Year 6 classroom. Instead of drawing further portraits we studied Lowry’s Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs and then created our own sculpture based on his work.

 

In Science, we built upon…

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Dem Bones Dem Bones…

Dem Bones Dem Bones…

What a funny week it has been in Sunshine class finding out all about our bones and why we have them.

We have loved reading and watching the Funny Bone stories, finding the repeating vocabulary in the book and talking about our favourite parts of the stories. We have…

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Autumn Days

Our favourite parts of the week:

1.  Singing lots of autumn songs in the hall with Sunshine and Rainbow class.

2. Enjoying an autumn walk in the School grounds where we collected leaves, acorns, spinning jennies and sticks. We also looked at pumpkins and also conkers with and without shells.…

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A delightful week

We have had a delightful week in Moonbeam Class and the children are putting in 100% into everything they do.

We have moved onto a new fiction text in English called ‘AAARRRGGGHHH, Spider!’ we have made predictions about what the family would do at the end of the story with a house full of…

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Time, Time, Time

This week we have had a really focus on learning the time. The children have been looking at how to fluently tell the time using both analogue and digital clocks as well as converting between the two. All of the children have worked extremely hard on this and have impressed both me and Mrs Miller…

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Classification…with a twist

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This week began with Monday afternoon of Science where we began to learn about Classification diagrams. We learnt what these were (one or two of us remembered from Year 4!) and then had a go at creating our own classification diagrams – firstly with fake ‘flanimal’ creatures and then with…

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Week 6 in Diamond class

In maths we have been doing division using the bus stop method.

In English we have finished reading ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. We also have made a power point all about Michael Morpurgo.

In PE we have been doing gymnastics and races.

In RE we’ve been learning about Moses.

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Rainbow Monster

Week 6 - What a busy week!

1. We have read the book 'Operation Night Monster' and shared predictions and opinions.

2. We have learnt about place value of 2-digit numbers. 

3. We have learnt about why we need medicines. 

4. We have drawn maps of our school and investigated…

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Mix a pancake

This week in English we have been reading some poems by Roger McGough and Christina Rosetti. 

The poem we looked at today was called 'Mix a Pancake'. After tasting some pancakes, we then worked in pairs to write and them perform our own versions of 'Mix a Pancake'. 

Have a look at Hope,…

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The Scarecrows Wedding - Part 2

What a creative week we have had. We have enjoyed making our own scarecrows Harry and Betty from the story; using a variety of different tools, resources and techniques.

After finding out all about weddings, we have made our own wedding cards and a delicious wedding cake. We even acted out the…

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The big green Dragon

We began our week with a visitor. The big green Dragon came to our classroom and left a glitter trail from flying through the window. He made an awful mess and ate one of our apples. We decided to ask him a few questions.

“How did you get through the window?” – Junior

“Can you change size to…

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