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Welcome to our first Bronze class blog! 

Our first week in Juniors and we have survived! The children have really impressed me this week with how grown up they have been. Everyone has settled very well - well done!

We began our week by getting used to our new classroom, playing some games…

Welcome back and a big warm welcome to Diamond Class! It has been lovely meeting all of the new Diamond Class children and I hope they have enjoyed their week as much as the staff have!

We spent much of the week getting to know each other and the routines of year 5 but don’t be fooled into…

Welcome back to Rainbow Class!

Top five moments for the first week in Rainbow Class. 

1. We have been reading The Gingerbread Man and then made gingerbread men and decorated them. 

2. We had a look at our 2 times tables and used a number square and a number line to count up in jumps of…

Well folks, this will be the final blog from me-Mrs Hanigan-as a teacher at Pool House. In 2003…a long time before all of our current children were born, and as many of my esteemed colleagues like to remind me, long before they themselves left school…I applied to a teaching job at Pool House…

Well this week has flown by and the children have been so busy on their two days out. 

The children had a fantastic day Ashton High School, taking part in Science, R.E, P.E, Computing and DT lessons. The children carried out some wonderful experiments with different gases. They went on a …

Bronze class had a great time finishing off some work they had been doing on 'Ottoline and the Yellow Cat'. Some excellent work was produced by Skye. Fred was once again the mathematician superstar and particularly enjoyed doing the subtraction work on Tuesday.

On Wednesday, we had a Puzzle…

The Final Countdown….

What a busy penultimate week we have had in Sunshine class.

We have continued with Phonics and reading as much as possible and have enjoyed the warmer weather outdoors.

On Monday we worked well in teams to build dens and shelters outdoors. We found lots of ways to…

The penultimate week as year 1’s and the last blog of the year.

We have enjoyed being with other classes this week and we have enjoyed the outdoor areas. We have made dens with Sunshine and Rainbow class, which included working as part of a team and lots of problem solving. We also had a water…

Today we have been at Blackpool Zoo trip and had a whale of a time!! 

Please enjoy looking through our pictures of our zootastic day. 

This weeks work has all revolved around zoo animals, (that is during the few times we have actually been in class together during such a busy week!)

Mondays highlights were writing letters to our new teacher Miss Wilson and then spending the afternoon with her.

Tuesdays highlights were our…

Today we have had a fantastic day at the zoo. The weather was glorious and we managed to see almost all the animals! I have to comment on how well behaved Rainbow class were – it made me very proud!

Below are some of the pictures from our trip today – curtesy of Mr Price, our camera man!

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This week seems to have flown by. The children have started to learn about area, perimeter and volume in mathematics. They have started a new topic in English were they are designing, making and then pitching their idea to a panel of judges. (Dragon Den style)

In science the children have been…