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This week we continued our focus on written work before our moderation next week. This week has seen some fantastic pieces of written work being produced by the children! We have written narratives about The Hobbit and The Iron Man. We wrote our own interpretation of both these well known books.…

Welcome back to our final half term in Rainbow class (and our last half term in Key Stage One too!) 

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"This week we have been practising for sports day." - Esther

"We have been practising running, the egg and spoon race, the sack race and the beanbag race." - Mikquell

Please make…

First week back after half term and all the children have been superstars. They have worked extremely hard.

On Monday we had another visit to Ingol library where we talked about the difference between fiction and non fiction books. Richard the librarian read us some stories and we danced to…

Sadly Mrs Keating has been absent this week and will be off next week too, so Mrs Parkinson has been teaching Moonbeam class this week. Throughout the week we have worked really hard getting ready for our Phonics screening tests, which will be next week. 

We have enjoyed being outdoors a lot…

A fun-filled year one phonics frenzy has gone on this week! Indy, Bobbi-Jack, Eliza and Oscar all worked very hard on their phonics, including using pincers to find and name the phonemes in the sand; playing ‘Which Hoop?’ (in this game, they had to decide what vowel phoneme they could hear in the…

This week we have focused a lot of our attention on our written work, to make sure our class writing folder is ready for our end of year assessment. Here is a poem that was written by Joey Price this week:

I saw a jolly teacher,

Teaching in his jolly class,

After lesson he saw me on…

With the weather being absolutely beautiful we have spent the week outdoors exploring the world around us.

We have re capped the importance of being safe in the sun, remembering our suncream, hats and water bottles everyday and finding shade when we need it.

Mondays visit to the library was…

I abandoned my blog last week, so apologies there! Here I am again, with a few messages of congratulations…firstly, to all of the children in year six who worked so hard in their SATs last week and to Mr Blackburn and his team for all of the hard work they have put in, preparing the children for…

A sunny week ending in a party.

This week has been a very busy week at school. It has been the annual week that the year 6 pupils do their end of year SAT tests.

In diamond class we started the week with swimming lessons at Fulwood. The rest of Monday was spent with Mrs Johnson doing our art…

We have had a lovely week in Rainbow class this week.

Yesterday the children went to the cinema to watch Peter Rabbit. We all really enjoyed it and the children were impeccably behaved! I just want to say how proud I am of them all for representing our school so well.

Today we are…

We started our week by reading the story of Cinderella. We talked about prince and princesses and then wrote our own invitations to the ball. We have spent the whole week finding out about weddings and Prince Harry and Meghan Markles wedding on Saturday. We have made our own bunting, placemats and…

What a busy 4 days we have had in Rainbow class. So busy in fact that we have forgotten to post our blog together! 

This week we have been revising our written methods in mathematics as well as applying these skills to solving maths word problems. The children have been working SO hard and…