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In Mathematics we revised expanded column addition in preparation for compact column addition next lesson. We all remembered how to do it and Mr Bamber was impressed. Group 4 went out to do some addition with Miss Rigby. We continued our gymnastics work in Phyrical Education, we tried…

Rainbow class have been channelling their inner Monet this week and have created a beautiful scene from Monet's garden for our class display with Miss Hargreaves. 

"We have been making our own water lillies." - Nicole C

"I have drawn a Japanese bridge and painted my picture using…

In English this week we have continued to learn about fairy tale stories. The children have also written their own fairy tale stories based on the three little pigs. They have chosen new good and bad characters. They have also chosen new materials for the houses to be made from.

"My story is…

This week we have been working really hard on our phonics phase 3 sounds ch, sh and th. Children are now becoming really smart at segmenting and blending sounds to make their own words. Some children have chosen to write sentences about Rosie's walk all by themselves. This is fabulous.

We have…

Some really good work in phonics and literacy support this week, where we also worked on our auditory memory. Trying to develop our memory for what we have heard, can really help us with reading and spelling, as well as remembering our PE kit for school! You could play a game of: ‘I went to the…

This week the whole class wrote a blog and I chose the one which gave the most detailed summary of the week. This week our blog was written by Olivia, with the help our our expert blog writer Maddy

Monday:

On Monday we did practice S.P.A.G paper and a spelling test too. In the afternoon we…

What a week we have had! Lots of fun and lots of learning.We have designed our own bedrooms and we were allowed to use anything we wanted.We have been doing The Dragon Slayer in English, it is a legend story. In PE we have been doing some gymnastics and learning more about balances. In History, we…

This week Rainbow class have been learning all about Florence Nightingale. 

"She was a famous nurse and she helped soldiers who would have died." - Ada

"She cleaned the hospitals." - Lily-May

"She looked after the soldiers." - Arham

"She was called the Lady with the Lamp because she…

This week we have enjoyed following instructions to make our own gingerbread men. We baked them on Monday and left them in the oven to cool down for Tuesday. On Tuesday morning they had vanished. Sunshine class put on their detective hats to investigate who had stolen our gingerbread men. We had…

A good week of phonics and literacy support this week, with a bit of SATs preparation thrown in for good measure. Children from year one and two have been working on developing their knowledge and awareness of the letter sounds and names. We have been learning the Vowel Song and writing the vowels…

I hope that you all had a fantastic New Year. I have been very impressed with the level of maturity and the quality of work produced this week in Gold class. The standard has now been set for the rest of the year!

In Maths, we have been learning how to find the perimeter and area of a variety…

The end of our first week in 2018 has already ended. We have been very busy in diamond class. We have started lots of new topics in our subjects. In English for the next two weeks we are looking at narrative poetry. In science we are looking at the life time of a human being, from birth to…