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10 May 2024

Summer Term 1 - Week 5

What a lovely week it has been! It has been wonderful to see the sunshine during our school day. This week, we have been exploring explanation texts through the book Stuff You Should Know! by John Farndon and Rob Beattie. As a class, we have considered the language and organisational features…

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3 May 2024

Summer Term 1 - Week 4

It has been another wonderful week in Class 4. We have finished our stories relating to 'Thief' by Malorie Blackman. In Science, we explored ways to keep ourselves mentally and physically healthy whilst our body goes through changes. With great creativity, we created brilliant nature inspired…

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26 April 2024

Summer Term 1 - Week 3 - Class 4

This week in Class 4 has been filled with excitement and growth. We continued reading "Thief" and wrote diary entries from the main character's perspective and then began planning our own version of how the story should end. In computing class, we got creative with Google Drawings by layering…

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19 April 2024

Summer Term 1 - Week 2

It's been an exhilarating week in Class 4, packed with a range of fantastic learning experiences that have left us buzzing with excitement. In our Mathematics sessions, we delved deep into the realm of numbers, exploring the relationship between fractions, decimals, and percentages. We also…

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12 April 2024

Summer Term 1 - Week 1

It has been a truly wonderful first week back in Class 4 with many energised for what is an important term ahead. Year 6 have been showing fantastic resillience as they tested themselves against the KS2 SATs from 2023 - with admirable success. Year 5 have begun a new unit of work in mathematics…

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22 March 2024

Spring Term 2 Week 5

It's time to celebrate all the amazing learning and effort that has taken place, in what can only be described as a truly jam-packed Spring term. The class have truly flourished and have epitomised being a rolemodel to the whole school. 

In our final week, we reached the end of many of our…

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15 March 2024

Spring Term 2 - Week 4

This week Class 4 have shown resilience as they have made great strides towards nearing the end of their Spring Term topics. In decimals, year 6 showed off their mathematical skills (such as place value understanding) by scoring brilliantly on a WhiteRoseMaths end of topic assessment. Year 5 have…

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8 March 2024

Spring Term 2 - Week 3

In maths, both Year 5 and 6 began their decimals topic with a flourish. After recapping the previous year's objectives, they fully engaged with deepening their understanding by learning new concepts and strategies. Many managed to challenge themselves by advancing through their booklets and…

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1 March 2024

Spring Term 2 Week 2

The week began with a blast as Class went to York to find out more information on the vikings. Our overnight stay was packed with thrilling activities such as: visiting the Jovik centre and experiencing a ride through a model viking village; becoming archeologists by digging for buried historical…

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23 February 2024

Spring Term 2 - Week 1

It has been a wonderful start to the second half of the acdsemic year.  We have fully embraced our new topic 'The Vikings' by immersing ourselves with Viking related texts such as 'Viking Boy' and 'Beowulf'. While exploring Beowulf, we have developed our desriptive writing and use of prepositional…

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9 February 2024

Spring Term 1 - Week 5

It has been a half term that makes me especially proud to teach Class 4. Their enthusiasm for learning is infectious. We have enjoyed learning about a great variety of math topics such as multiplication, division, ration and algebra. Our English lessons relating to the book The Explorer by…

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2 February 2024

Spring Term 1 - Week 4

It has truly been a week full of enrichment with most of the class representing the school in sport events against other schools. On Tuesday, a group of 9 went to Shobnall Leisure Complex to play football against schools in the Dove Valley Sporting Group. Notably, everyone showed great…

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