Why do Elephants have big ears?

In English we have been looking at different animals and how they use their ears. We are trying to find out why elephants have big ears. 

Why do elephants have big ears?

          "So they can hear for food" (Kacey)

          "So they can scare flies away" (Reegan)

We are still…

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Columbus Day!

Better late than never!! Apologies for the delayed blog post, the excitement of half term must have got too much for us!

Last week in Rainbow class we have been rounding off our work on Christopher Columbus by celebrating with our very own Columbus Day (pictures to follow!) 

We have been…

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Time flies when your having fun.

WOW...... Its already been a week since the last blog, but so much has happened. We had an action packed week with the luch time sports, so here goes.

Monday started out extremly cold so we began the week playing hand ball (less chance of slipping). With three teams looking to come out on top…

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Pizza Hut, Eat Your Heart Out!

This week in Mathematics we have been interpreting data about the class, such as favourite chocolate bars, eye colour and hair colour. We have also used our data to create a number of diagrams and graphs such as bar graphs, line graphs, Venn diagrams and Carroll diagrams. In English we started…

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This week in Gold class

This week in Gold class, we have been challenged in Maths; we learnt how to do long division! in English we have finished reading the (wonderful, fasinating) book called Thief! This week in History we have been creating powerpoints about different key figures in the Renaissance period, such as Sir…

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An "Egg"citing Week

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This week we focussed on the story Rosies Walk.

"The Fox tries to sneak up on the hen" (Conner)

"The flour fell all over the fox" (Ela)

"The fox fell into the pond." (Eliza)

 

We decided that Rosie went back to her hen house to lay eggs. We talked about all the things eggs could be…

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Our week in Moonbeam class

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In English we have been learning pattern and rhyme poems.

           sweeties in a jar,

           sweeties in a jar,

           shake and rattle,

           shake and rattle,

           sweeties in a jar.

In Maths we have been learning all about the properties of 3D shapes.

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Civil War!!!

No, not the sort involving Captain American and Iron Man! However, we are just as excited as this week we started an exciting new topic about the Lebanese Civil War in English with Miss Roberts. None of us had heard of this war before so we learnt lots when completed research (we even saw Mr…

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1st ever lunch time sports blog.........

Hello everyone and welcome to the first ever Lunch Time Sports Blog......

           This week has flown by so fast, we've hardly had time to catch our breath but here goes. We started the week off with everones favourite game football, with three teams getting two games each. team one captain…

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Chinese Rhymes with Please.

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This week has been full of multi-cultural fun and celebration. Sunshine Class have learnt all about Chinese New Year. We have found out that it is the year of the Rooster, tasted Chinese food, written our names in Chinese, found Chinese numbers and had our own Chinese dragon march. ( Videos/…

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Another week goes by

Well it is hard to believe that it is Friday again. It only seems like yesterday that I was writing our blog for last week.

In silver class this week Miss Desai has continued teaching our maths and english lessons. These are going really well. Today the children finished writing their reports…

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Fe Fi Fo Fum

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In Rainbow class this week we have been continuing our work on fairy tales. We have been focussing on Jack and the Beanstalk. We have made wanted posters for the Giant for our big write, watched a film version of Jack and the Beanstalk (it is a little bit different – Max) and acted the story out.…

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