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This week we have concluded our English unit on 'Was Tutankhamun killed?'

We have been building our evidence on our evidence board and finally deciding what we happened to King Tut. 

"I think he had a broken leg and it might have been infected which killed him." - Alara

"I think he might…

This is the fifth week blog of Rainbow Class. Here are five top moments...

1. We have been learning how to write numbers in words and numerals. 

2. We have made different products for our song in the Harvest Assembly - In My Trolley. 

3. We have been learning about writing letters and…

The children came into School on Tuesday morning and found there had been a visitor overnight and they knew straight away who it was; The Big Green Dragon! He’s the main character from the story ‘Who’s our New Teacher?’ in English and he came to see us all. He left us a letter and a mess on the…

The top five moments of Week 4...

1. We wrote sentences, expanded noun phrases and then a story all about a monster. 

2. We explored the seven world continents and found them on a map. 

3. We wrote character descriptions about the Worst Witch.

4. We learnt number bonds to 10 and…

Mmm Pizza!

This week we have really missed Miss Ellison in class as she’s been recovering after having teeth out. We have still been incredibly busy and I am sure she will be very proud of the work we have achieved.

We have been continuing our English topic of Tutankhamun and using the…

This week really has been a little bit of everything. 

In our key groups we have been

cutting,

threading,

doing jigsaws,

singing nursery rhymes,

looking at colours and shapes,

sharing with each other our special items we brought in our bags,

reading.

We have also had our…

What a busy week we have had!

We began reading our new book – Friend or Foe – in English. To immerse us in this new topic, we have been carrying out research into the Blitz and evacuees during World War Two. We began the week asking questions we wished to know about this era of history and…

In our lessons this week:

- We have explored amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish and birds.

- We have drawn self-portraits, which were amazing!

- In Mathematics, we have identified one more than a given number, practicing counting backwards from 20 and representing numbers using objects…

This week we have been learning all about Ancient Egypt and continuing to try and work out how Tutankhamun died. Many of the class have been part of our ACS (Ancient Crime Squad) helping us to investigate and collect key evidence.

In history we have been mummifying each other (with toilet…

Week 3, here are five interesting things we did this week...

1. We have learnt more about place value, partitioning numbers into tens and ones. 

2. We used a map of Pool House, to instruct us on where we were walking around the school. 

3. We have been writing sentences about Operation…

Sunshine class have had a fun packed week this week finding out about different dinosaurs.

In our key groups, we talked about dinosaurs, picked our favourite dinosaurs, painted them and made stories up about the adventures they would go on. The children had some lovely ideas. We turned one…

Is it really the end of week two already? How the last two weeks have flown by already!

Let’s have a quick look at some of the things we have been doing throughout yet another busy week:

1. We performed our ‘Down by the Bay’ poems to the rest of the class. Mr Blackburn was very impressed at…