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We have had a busy week in Class 1! This week we have continued our topic of ‘Sparkle, Shine, Celebrate!’ by learning about Thanksgiving. We used the poem ‘Over the River, Through the Wood’ to learn about the different traditions of Thanksgiving in America. The children have also learnt about…

We have had another fantastic week in Class 5.

In English, we have been learning about the life story of Anne Frank. We’ve researched the annex that the Frank family lived in and we have been writing diaries from Anne’s point of view. In maths, we have continued to learn about fractions. We…

This week in Class 3, we have been learning all about ‘Cinquains’ in English. Cinquains are poems with a very specific 5-line structure. We have identified the features of cinquains, planned and written our own poems. In Maths, Year 3 have been dividing by 2, 5, 10 and 3. Year 4 have been learning…

We have been very excited this week because the Christmas tree has gone up in the classroom. In English, we have started a new unit using the book How to Catch a Santa. We have looked at letter writing and have written letters to Father Christmas that we are going to go and post next week. We have…

This week in Care Club the children have enjoyed baking and icing fairy cakes, colouring in Pudsey bear pictures, making Pudsey split pin puppets, completing wordsearches and entering an anti-bullying poster colouring competitioin, well done to our winners. We have many more exciting weeks…

What another lovely week in Class 1! We have continued our learning of ‘Sparkle, Shine, Celebrate!’ by celebrating kindness this week in line with Anti-bullying Week. We used the book ‘The Smartest Giant in Town’ to help us learn about different ways of showing kindness. This week we have also…

This week we have had lots of fun. 
Our maths lesson was an active one and involved playing tag, something we all enjoy, whilst practising squaring and cubing numbers. We have moved on to multiplying numbers by 10, 100 and 1000. 

We went to the village hall and after an hour of litter picking…

We have had a great week this week starting to learn the words for our Christmas performance and sing the songs. Miss Derry is very impressed with how hard we have been working. In English, we have come to the end of our unit looking at the story of Pinocchio and have rewritten the story. Some of…

We have had another great week in Class 5. 
In English, we have been writing our own WW2 diaries from the point of view of our own character (soldier, evacuee etc).

In our Maths lessons, we have been continuing to work with fractions, focusing on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. In order…

Class 3 have had a great week learning lots and having fun. This week was extra special because it was ‘Anti-Bullying Week’. Throughout the week, we discussed ways of creating the ripple effect of kindness. This is where one kind act can create a chain reaction.

In English, we have been doing…

We have been continuing our focus on fractions in our maths lessons this week; this has involved ordering, comparing and adding/subtracting fractions with differing numerators and denominators.

In English, we have been reading ‘My Secret War Diary’ and we have been creating our own characters…

This week the children have taken part in some arts and craft activities to commemorate Armistice day. They have made poppies using felt, baked and iced poppy biscuits, completed poppy acrostic poems and wordsearches and painted a lovely poppy scene onto canvas using acrylic paints. The children…