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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…

We have had another wonderful week in Moonbeam Class!

This week we have started our more formal lessons, such as English, Maths and Science.

In English we have been reading ‘Class To went to the Zoo’ and the children have loved joining in with the retelling the story in groups and…

Week 2

1. This week we have read two books "Silly Billy" and "Operation Night Monster."

2. In Science, we started to talk about how we grow up and how to stay healthy. 

3. We started learning our spellings for MONDAY'S SPELLING TEST. 

4. We have started to do really neat…

Massive congratulations to all the children in Sunshine class on completing their first full week at school. What a busy week it has been. The children are adjusting well to the school routines and expectations, they are beginning to form positive relationships with their friends and their…

WOW! What an amazing first week we have all had in Moonbeam Class. I am so happy to be back and see the children and they have really impressed me this week with how grown up, well behaved and wonderful they all are.

We have spent our week settling into our new routines and classroom and…

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…