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This week in year 6 we have continued our learning about Pompeii. This week, our task was to create a newspaper article that details the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and destruction of Pompeii. In the build up to typing out our own report we covered a few useful topics:

• How to use eye witness…

What a week. We certainly haven’t slowed down this week in Moonbeam Class.

We have focused on lots of different things this week and the children have worked amazingly hard. After parents evening on Tuesday the children had a phonics activity morning on Wednesday to celebrate how hard they…

In English we are reading a book called Friend or foe, this story is about two boys who are evacuated from London to Devon in the World War 2. We wrote our own version of chapter 7, we all did a very good job.

In Maths we are doing time, we also looked at train times and television times. We…

This week we have been learning EVEN MORE about The Great Fire of London because not only is this our history topic but we have also been looking at diary entries from Samuel Pepys. 

"The fire started on Sunday 2nd September 1666." - Ellie

"A diary has to start with the date." - Jack

"The…

Sunshine class really have worked their socks off this week. We have spent the majority of the week in our key groups focussing on really specific areas. We have enjoyed the new indoor and outdoor classroom layout which has been set up with challenges to develop our speech and communication…

Reading tests in year two and one are complete now and once again, the children have worked incredibly hard. It was particularly lovely to hear such beautiful, ‘pure’ phonemes as the children sounded out the words they were looking for, it was really great to see and hear.

For the challenge…

A big well done to all our footballers who took part in the recent Year 5 and 6 Kids Cup at Play Football. We all had a great afternoon and a big thank you to all the parents who came along to support us. A extra big thank you to Jack Fannon who came along in his role as Head Boy to help take…

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This week in Rainbow class we have been writing our own class poem based on a poem we have been reading called 'Going through old photos'. The children worked in groups to find words to rhyme with their name (some were trickier than others!) Have a look at our rhyming poem…

This week in Bronze class we have had another busy week.

We have still being trying to work out who Killed Tutankhamen in English with Mr Herd.

In mathematics we have been learning about Place Value.

In History we have been working in groups to find out information about ancient…

This week we have continued to do some amazing work and work really hard. We have been working on accessing challenges around the room and I am really proud of all the children in Moonbeam class for their amazing efforts this week.

We have been working on our number bonds to 5 in …

This week we have been very fit and healthy with our mile a day challenges. Well done to Viaan, Isaac, Lucas, Kara, Adam, Sapphire, Rossi and Tyler on completing their mile a day challenge, you can now collect your sponsor money in. Remember every penny counts.

Sunshine class have worked really…

More reading tests this week, all of the children in the juniors have now completed their reading tests and most of Rainbow Class too. The children have all worked incredibly hard and I was particularly impressed with the way that some of the children used excellent reasoning skills to work out…