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This week in sunshine class we have started looking at coins. What the coins look like, the value of each coin and which coins have the biggest value. We discussed how many pennies we need to make the same value as a 5p coin, a 10p coin, a 20p coin, 50p coin and a £1 coin. 

We went over to the…

Another lovely couple of days in Moonbeam Class this week. We looked at some rhyming poems about dinosaurs and spotted the rhymes. After this, we wrote our own rhyming poems. Aiesha wrote a wonderful poem and was able to rhyme lots of words – well done!

We looked at a dinosaur claw (from an…

A new half term has begun. The final half term as Year 3 children, in seven weeks we will be Year 4. We have a lot of work to get through first. 

In English we are exploring our new topic, Shocking Styles, and learning more about fashion through history. We are learning about the features of…

This week has been a very hot week in school. In English we have been working on a new theme with Miss Desai. The outcome of the theme will be the pitching of a new idea to a panel of judges. This week we have been thinking about what the product could be.

In maths we have been plotting…

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!) 

PE

"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…