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January 25, 2016

Writing nonsense in class 5! 

On Monday class 5 wrote their own alphabet nonsense poem in the style of Edward Lear, a famous Victorian author we are currently studying. We each had a letter and had to create a verse for our own letter. If you want to read our poem please come inside a classroom and find it on...
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Exciting Writing

Today saw our second session of Exciting Writing in 2016 and what a good one it was! The children were given a picture of a tiger as a stimulus and all planned and wrote fantastic stories (with the idea that they were from a different culture to our own – our most recent unit). Also,...
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Edward Lear nonsense!

Class 6 have been looking at the work of Victorian writer Edward Lear. His style of writing is nonsensical and silly! The children have written poems in his style, including a nonsense alphabet. We had a range of things in our poems… kings, jungles, eels and yachts! Here are  some of the children performing our...
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Edward Lear nonsense!

Class 6 have looked at the writing of Edward Lear in English. His style of writing is nonsensical and silly! The children have enjoyed writing limericks and other poems in this style! Here is part of our nonsense alphabet:      
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‘Diving for Deep’

In Maths today, we were ‘Diving for Deep’ which meant that we were deepening our understanding of calculations. We picked addition questions at random and solved them in a variety of ways including drawing pictures, using resources or working them out in heads. It was a great opportunity to use all of our wonderful Maths...
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Victorian Dance…

In pairs, Class 8 have been designing a freeze frame to represent famous inventions from the Victorian period. There was some fantastic creativity on show in this lesson!      
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Victorian Dance…

In pairs, we have been designing a freeze frame to represent famous inventions from the Victorian period.  There were some fantastic creativity on show in this lesson!      
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