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HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Geography

Last Friday was Chinese New Year. This week in geography we have been learning about Chinese New Year and next week we will be comparing China to where we live. 

"We ate Chinese food." - Drew

"The food was fantastic. My favourite was the…

Welcome back after half term. The first week back has been so busy in Moonbeam Class.

In English this week the children have continued to learn about reports. They have written their own reports about an elephant’s trunk. The children have included headings, sub-heading, diagrams, labels,…

This week in sunshine class it is all about Chinese new year. We have been looking at their traditions. We have done lots of activities such as making Chinese flags, money envelopes, paper chains and Chinese dragon masks. This afternoon we are having a Chinese New Year party. The children have…

Testing times in my room this week, with reading tests being done for those children new to the school, reading, spelling and mathematics tests for others and even a sounds test! Phew! If the children aren’t exhausted, I am and will be glad when we are back on our normal timetable next…

Whoops…I knew there was something I needed to remember before we broke up for half term…it was to do my blog and I forgot. I must remember to practice the memory games I’m always telling others to do!

The children worked really hard in the week leading up to half term. They applied the…

As if by magic, the end of the half term is here and we are ready for a week in the sun. If not sun, we are ready for a relaxing week with our feet up. 

Thank you for a fantastic half term in Bronze Class, we have had a very fun time learning lots of new things. 

Take care on your holidays…

Monday

On Monday we had our last basketball session in PE. Mr Blackburn got hit in the face with the basketball; it was hilarious! We also completed more work for our Working Wall on The Hobbit. You can now we key vocabulary and definitions, key characters, riddles and interpertations of Gollum…

This week we have been looking at poetry and have written our own class rhyming poem. Have a look at our poem below! We worked in groups to write our poem and then collated all the verses to create one big poem. 

We did have to come up with some nicknames for each other because…

My goodness, we cannot believe we are writing our last blog of this half term. It seems that this week has flown by, probably because we have yet again had another very busy week. 

After reading The hungry caterpillar this week we have talked about the story and how caterpillars change. It has…

What an exciting week in Sunshine class. We have looked at the story of The little red hen and talked about why they have not been kind friends. We are happy that all the children in Sunshine class know how to be a kind friend. 

"Leyton is a good friend, he plays with me" Toby

"Brodey is a…

This week we have been doing interesting things for instance, in maths we have been doing mental division and subtraction followed by finding the square root to numbers. In English we have been reading an exciting story whilst doing work revolved around it. In the afternoon we have been joined by…

This week in Year 6 we have been creating our own interpretations of Gollum, using information retreived from The Hobbit. We have also been learning about Expanded Noun Phrases with Miss Simpson in her last week at our school. Miss Simpson gave us a text that we had to pick out the Expanded Noun…