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The children have been developing their typing skills recently and have been writing their own blog posts using Word. This week we have chosen Emily to be our guest blogger. 

This week in rainbow class we have been…

DT-We have been learning how to do sliders of the ginger bread man

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This week we have celebrated learning to tell the time for o’clock and half past. The children have surpassed my expectations with learning to tell the time and I am super proud of them.

We have also celebrated the festival of Vaisakhi in our final lesson on Sikhism for this term, in R.E.…

This week in Rainbow class we have been revising what we have already learnt so far this year.

In maths the children have recapped the four operations – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We have revised the written methods that we have learnt in year 2 and applied these…

Tuesday afternoon involved a trip to the library with year 6. It was good to see all the children, sitting enthralled by the story that was read to them. They also learnt about the Dewey system of cataloguing the books in the library and had a go at shelving one of the books themselves…they found…

This week we continued to read War Horse and consider poetry that has similar links. We were given the task to compare and contrast the life of the horses before the war and their life during the war. To help us compose our own poetry we analysed the work of Lucy Gertrude Moberley and considered…

We have had a wonderful week in Moonbeam Class. Our Mathematics lessons have been all about telling the time. We have looked at o’clock and half past so far, on analogue clocks. The children have all picked it up so quickly and I am so proud of them all for working so hard. I definitely think the…

This week in rainbow class we have been very busy. 

The star of the week is Emily. Our merit certificate winners are Eliza and me (Ellie) well done.

In maths we have been doing Division  some with reminders in. On Friday we have been making chocolate in English we have been learning about…

Our heads have been in the sky this week with the class enjoying our new airport role play area. We have flown to a host of different destinations from visiting Mickey in America, to China to celebrate their new year.

The children have joined in with the Chinese festivities this week. We have…

This week the children have been working with money in Mathematics and they have worked really hard to recognise different coins and their value and make different amounts. In English we have been exploring Little Red Riding hood and after our amazing work on Wednesday, we went out into the snow…

This week we have considered the different adaptations that animals have made over time in order to survive in their extreme conditions.

This task was split into different tasks for us to complete by Mr Blackburn

• Consider the adaptation of a polar bear
• Research the adaptation of…

What a week we have had in sunshine class. In English we have continued with our topic, Polar Regions and we couldn’t have asked for more suitable weather conditions to inspire the children. This week have learnt about the differences between fiction and non fiction books which I’m sure you will…

A group of children from year 6 have been looking at the difference between formal and informal writing. We discussed how we can recognise the different style of writing and speech and when each would be most appropriate. We then looked at Gangsta Granny and highlighted the different levels of…