The eruption

"This week in Bronze class we made a volcano (model) erupt." - Emily

"We discussed whether we would like to live near a volcano. I would like to because then I can take people to the volcano and make money as an attraction." - Nevaeh 

"We have been learning about the tectonic plates." -…

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Fizz, Pop, Crackle, Bang!

This week we have found out all about Guy Fawkes and why we celebrate bonfire night. We found out that he was a very naughty man who tried to blow up the king!

Each group wrote their own firework poem by describing the fireworks in the sky and the noises they make. We used some really smart…

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Autumn Term 2

A warm, welcome back to you all. I hope you have all enjoyed your half terms! This has been a short week but a very busy nonetheless!

 

On Wednesday, we began learning about how we can use colons in our writing. We discussed the three different ways in which we can use colons in our writing:…

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Short but sweet!

Welcome back to our second half term of the year. Its been a short week in school but we have certainly packed a lot of learning in. 

"We made chocolate apples with Mrs Bradley." - Ellie

"We have started reading a new book in English called 'Storm'." - Alara

"We have been pretending to be…

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Week 8: Room on the Broom

These are the top 5 moments of this week. 

1. We have a new friend in our class called Cassius, we have enjoyed welcoming him to the family. 

2. We have read Room on the Broom, we answered questions and re-ordered the events of the story. 

3. In Mathematics, we have partitioned 2-digit…

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Here are a few of our favourite things

This week we have asked some of the children what their favourite thing has been about this week.

 

“Our first day back in to School.” – Ellie-Mae

 

“Writing numbers in words.” - Lillie

 

“Being star of the week.” – Sapphire

 

“Dinner time and wearing our new bands.” –…

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Dance-a-thon extravaganza

Today has been our Dance-a-thon! We have been dancing non-stop for 1 hour, 20 minutes and 39 seconds. I am so impressed with how well they all did and their enthusiasm was wonderful. I think we will all sleepy well tonight! Just a reminder that the sponsor money must be handed in to Miss Wilson on…

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Going For Gold

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Going For Gold

We have had a very busy half term in Gold Class. So busy in fact that this is the first blog that we have done. We have had lots of fun, hard work and some tears during the past 6 weeks. Today has been an excellent day for all the children in the class. We have been taking part…

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Ending the week on a (bouncing) high!

This week in Bronze class we have been having very busy!!

“In computing, Mrs Bradley has been teaching us how to programme using Scratch.” – Alara

“In Music, Mrs Bennett has been teaching us how to play hot cross buns on the recorder.” – Ela

“This week we have been learning about poetry…

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Week 6: Autumn Days

Top Five Moments of Week 6! 

1. We had our Harvest Festival, we sang lots of songs such as Autumn Days and In My Trolley. 

2. We looked at different poems in English including Grasshopper One and Surprises. 

3. We started shape week, we found properties of shapes, sorted them and found…

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Autumn Days

We have been focusing on our number bonds to 10 and adding two numbers together. This can be quite tricky at first but the children have been amazing and worked really hard at mastering different techniques for their working out. Also this week, have been writing descriptive ingredients for mud…

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A combined harvest

This week has been our harvest celebration week. We have enjoyed making our own big red combined harvester to drive around during the harvest assembly. Thank you to all of you for the food donations and for coming to the assembly to celebrate with us.

We have continued finding out about people…

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