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Next week

In English, we will begin our work on The Three Billy Goats Gruff and use drama work to learn the story. In maths, we will be developing our partitioning skills using base 10 resources practically and then recording how many hundreds, tens and units a number has. It will be...
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Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘er’ graphemes which will also include ‘ir’ for skirt and ‘ur’ for nurse. Please ensure your child uses at least one of their words in a full sentence and that they try to use neat joined up handwriting. In...
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Material properties

In science, we explored different materials and used our senses to describe them. We even tried to bend, push and fold the materials to see if they were weak enough to be changed, like cardboard and paper. Here’s a picture of us discussing the different materials as a...
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Three Little Pigs stories 

We wrote some fantastic stories in our English books this week! We listened very closely to advice about sentence openers which make our writing more exciting to read and Miss Thomas was very impressed with us! We’ve also got our drama pictures up on on our topic display;...
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Next week

In English next week we will be starting a new story…exciting!  In maths we will be looking at place value. Please remember to bring your reading record to school every day. Next Friday will be Group 2 for Show and Tell.
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Spellings

Spellings this week will be focusing on the ‘ir’ phoneme but looking more specifically at the ‘ir’, ‘er’, and ‘ur’ graphemes. 
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Wave bye bye to the Three Little Pigs…

Friday of this week is the last day we will be talking about the Three Little Pigs. The children have really got into the story over the past two weeks and have produced some wonderful writing because of this!
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Materials

In Science the children have been experimenting with different materials and seeing how they change depending on what you do with them! They loved stretching the Blu-tack as far as it would go.
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we’ll start to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and write in relation to the theme of the book, evacuation. Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting addition and subtraction. Reading Please remember to bring your...
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Homework Project

Please remember that for your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to...
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Next Week

We are very excited for Miss Youle our student teacher to start teaching next week, everyone in the class has made her feel really welcome. We will be thinking about repeating patterns again in maths. In literacy we will be making our own books to tell the story of Goldilocks and...
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Homework

Please have a go at writing the digraphs ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ this week. Can you think of any words with these sounds at the beginning or end?
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Show and Tell

This week we started Show and Tell, thank you to everyone who remembered to bring in their favourite book. It was so lovely to share different stories and ask each other questions about why we liked them. Please remember to check the board outside the classroom to see whose turn...
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Counting on from 10

This week in maths we have been thinking lots about teen numbers and counting on from ten instead of starting at 0. We decided to use our toes as a starting point and then count on with our fingers to see how many more than 10 different numbers were.
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Forest Schools

This Tuesday we got wrapped up warm and went to explore the wintery wildlife area. We took checklists to see what we could find and looked carefully for any signs of new life beginning for spring time.   
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Next week

We will be looking at the story of the Three Billy Goats Gruff  and retelling the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  Also, we will be learning how to partition numbers and compare numbers. We have started our science work on Materials and will be investigating how they...
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Spelling 

We are learning the sounds ‘ur’ ‘er’ and ‘ir’ Also, the sounds ‘sh’ and ‘ch’ for the Reception children 
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Drama

Class 2 are learning to use their acting voices clearly and with expression. We acted out The Three Little Pigs using a scary voice for the big bad wolf and a high pitched voice for the three little pigs. Our favourite phrase was ” Not by the hair of my chinny chin...
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Comparing objects by weight

We used our hands to compare the weight of objects we found around our classroom. Then we used the balancing scales to make sure we were correct and finally sorted the objects into light and heavy. We can say which object is the heaviest and which is the lightest. 
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Retelling a story.

Class 2 worked extremely hard today retelling  the tale of The Three Little Pigs. They remembered all the key events and phrases and wrote loads! So proud of you all for your amazing writing. 
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we’ll start to read the book ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ and write in relation to the theme of the book, evacuation. Maths In maths next week we’ll be revisiting addition and subtraction. Reading Please remember to...
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Homework Project

Please remember that for your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be continuing to read “Carrie’s War” and will write about some of the different characters we meet. Maths In maths next week, we shall be looking at area and perimeter in more detail and challenging ourselves with some missing number problems!...
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Homework Project…

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be continuing to read “Carrie’s War” and will be writing about some of the different characters we meet. Maths In maths next week, we shall be looking at area and perimeter in more detail and challenging ourselves with some missing number...
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Going Crackers again 

We were going Crackers again today! Phew at last we have the right amount of stock.
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Homework Project…

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a...
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Homework Project

Remember that for your first homework project of 2017, we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know who may have been involved or lived during the war. If you choose to research a...
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Great Groups 

During one of our RE sessions, we explored our thoughts about special groups in society. We got to choose a certain group to write about; it could be a group that we are in or just one that we know of. It could be anything from sports groups to dancing or horse riding, or a...
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Evacuation…

This week, Class 8 have found out a lot more about evacuation, specifically thinking about what life was like for evacuees in World War 2.
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Deep Diary Entries…

On Thursday morning, we read the first few chapters of the story “Carrie’s War” by Nina Bowden. Each child wrote from the perspective of Carrie to describe the series of events that led to the worst day in her life.  
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Perfect Place Value!

On Monday, we applied our knowledge of reading and writing numbers upto seven digits to an exciting dice game, where we added to and subtracted from a range of totals.  
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Dramatic WWII Dance

On Friday afternoon, we delved into our topic for this term, World War 2, by looking some photographs taken during the war and exploring the content through dance and music. Each group took on this task in an original, creative way to create some fabulously dramatic dances to a...
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Thank you

Thank you to everyone who helped make the Christmas Fair and Christmas Cake Stall successful and enjoyable events. The Christmas Fair made a profit of £1,306.16 and the cake stall £110.00. As always, the money will provide exciting trips, experiences and equipment for every child...
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Next Week in Class 7

English In English next week we’ll be continuing our work on stories set during the Second World War Maths In English we will be revising calculation methods and continuing our work on decimals Spellings You have your statutory spelling lists so please choose another 10...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the...
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Energy Heroes

This week our Year 5 children began a project called ‘Energy Heroes’ which will encourage us all to think about ways we can save energy and help the planet.  The children really enjoyed taking part in an assembly and workshop which encouraged them to use real...
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Evacuee Letters

We’ve been writing in role as Lenny Levi, the evacuee featured in ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’.  As well as writing about Lenny’s emotions, we have included historical information about ration books, gas masks, identity cards and billeting officers.
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