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This week we have continued exploring our wartime poetry in time for Armistice Day and Remembrance Day.  We improved our reading skills by breaking down some war poetry that we read and answering challenging questions about it. We also practiced multiplying multi digit numbers. In RE we wrote a…

In diamond class this week we have been very bust even though we have only been in school for 3 days. The week started off with Mr Mearns collecting a minibus from Preston Community Transport on his way into work. At 9:30 we left school and went up to Ashton Community Science College. At 10…

The end of a short but settled week in Rainbow class. 

We've had a lovely start to our Autumn term 2 and the children have come back to school ready and raring to learn. 

This week in English we have started a new topic looking at information texts. We have been learning about Orang-utans.…

This short school week got off to an exciting bang with our fabulous firework poetry. Children enjoyed talking about their own Bonfire night experiences in the class and used their observations to write fabulous poetry. We found out all about Guy Fawkes and why we have Bonfire night every year.…

So sorry that the blog disappeared for a couple of weeks there. I’m back now and after a lovely couple of weeks before we broke up, that included delights like the Beacon Fell trip with the infants (where we were incredibly lucky with the weather and has a beautiful day to be heading for the…

It’s been a great week this week at Pool House.

We managed to enjoy lots of sports this week, with more children joining in than ever before.

In the upper juniors we had that many players that we had to spilt them into three teams. We played winner stays on and there was not one clear winner…

Moonbeam have had a very busy week! We had a fantastic Halloween party on Tuesday that the children were really excited about and we saw some fantastic, scary outfits. 

In English, we have been learning all about winter poems and have even written our own SNOW acrostic poems. We have added…

Half term is here!!!!

This week we have continued focusing on poetry. We continued looking at wartime poetry and inferred the meaning of key words and sentences in the poem ‘War Girls’. We wrote a paragraph in our books about the meaning of the poem and explained certain parts of the text. This…

It's been a frightfully funny week in Sunshine class we have been reading Funny Bones and finding out all about the skeleton. Some children were fascinated by all the bones in the body, how they are different shapes and sizes. We learnt a song to find out which bones were connected to which.…

How did we avoid the rain this week?

The infants had fun playing football and tag rugby this week. They really do know how to enjoy themselves the infants. Every day they just seem to have as much fun as possible. the goal of the week came from Alan. He collected the ball on the half way line,…

This week we turned our attention to poetry in wartime, following the conclusion of our topic on Pompeii. We began the week by discussing the key poetic features that we should be able to identify and use in poetry in year 6 (onomatopoeia, metaphors, similes, repetition, and alliteration). We then…

This week has been a very busy week in Rainbow class! 

On Monday we continued learning about The Great Fire of London and the children wrote their own diary entries as Samuel Pepys. We have now finished our topic on the fire and the children have thoroughly enjoyed learning all about it. 

In…