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This week has been shorter but jam packed full of fun and exploration.

On Tuesday morning we paired up to go hunting for bugs around the school grounds. The children were all amazing at this, finding the bugs hidey holes and favourite places. Sapphire and Ellie were superb, as were Lillie and…

This week we have talked all about being healthy. How do we keep our bodies healthy?

'Brush our teeth' (Justyna)

'Have a shower' Rossi

'Wash germs off our hands' (Hope)

'Drink lots of water' (Naimh)

We talked about lots of different ways to keep our body healthy and we made posters…

This week we have begun our new English topic about The Jabberwocky. We read through this very famous nonsense poem and discussed what could be happening in each stanza as a group. We then labelled each of the nonsense words depending on what word class they were – verb, noun, adverb, adjective,…

Welcome back! What a fun first week we have had in Moonbeam Class.

This week we have started our new English topic with the story, ‘Man on the Moon’. We have learnt all about Bob and made lots of predictions of what we think he does on the moon and why he works there. We have also packed our…

This has been a good week ;-)

English

We started becoming WORD DETECTIVES 

Which includes: Using a dictionary correctly, using a thesaurus & investigating spelling rules. 

In mathematics we have been learning mental methods to add and subtract. 

In science we were looking at…

Welcome back to our final (and favourite) term - SUMMER!

Mathematics

"We were practicing for our sat's." - Emily

"We were learning about clockwise and anti-clockwise turns." - Aiesha

"We were looking at sequences and patterns in numbers." - Jehanna. 

English

"In English we…

Aye Aye Captain! This week has been so much fun. We have enjoyed being pirates and finding out all about them. At the start of the week we split into our groups and came up with our own pirate names, flags and bases. We searched for treasure, and found famous pirates out in our…

We have had a wonderfully busy and fun couple of weeks in Moonbeam class, so much so, we forgot to blog last week!

Leading up to the end of term, we have explored rhyming words and sentences as well as performing rhyming poems, looked at our two times table, multiplications and fractions.…

This week in Bronze class we started a new topic in English of poetry. We have been learning all about different types of poems and had a go at writing our own. We went exploring round school for new language and ideas for our poems.

In Mathematics our focus this week has been doubling and…

In English we have been looking at narrative poems like "Millers End " and " By St Thomas water"  and in Mathematics we have been learning about improper fractions and how to convert them to proper fractions e.g 7/6= 1 1/6 In geography we planned routes using co-ordinates. In Science we look at…

This half term in Geography we have been learning about China and comparing it to England. 

"Today we tried different Chinese food. I liked the egg noodles." - Sophia

"We are learning about how chinese new year is celebrated." - Charley

"My favourite was the egg noodles." - Millie

"I…

This week we have enjoyed more time outside enjoying the sunshine and our outdoor environment. We have been learning how to play nicely with the outdoor toys, sharing with our friends, and not mixing the materials up. Niamh and Hannah painted some beautiful spring pictures on the outdoor easel,…