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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…

Well this is Miss Kazi's last week, she has been in Moonbeam class for 7 weeks and taugh the children some interesting lessons. I would like to wish her good luck in the future.

This week we have been learning about reports in English. They have been reading a book about why do elephants have…

We couldn't write our blog today without Mikquell featuring in it somewhere! Today is his birthday! He's even brought us a delicious cake to enjoy. 

"Happy Birthday Mikquell!!!" - Nicole C

"We have been learning about Mary Seacole in History. She went to Crimea to help the soldiers." -…

Just a short blog this week…like myself really!

The children have been working hard, developing their understanding of different types of habitats found around the world. We looked at forests, the Savannah, prairies, deserts, rainforests, tundra, marine habitats and even the man-made habitats…

Monday 

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…