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Homework Project

A reminder of your current homework project: This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and will learn about some of the Greek armies, such as the Spartans and Athenians. For your next homework project we would like you to design and/or create your own Greek shield....
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing our own play script based on a Greek myth. Spellings This is the last week that we will look at the possessive apostrophe in our spelling lesson. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also...
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Euro 2016 Stickers!

Amid the hard work from everyone in Class 8 , we are also attempting to complete the Euro 2016 Panini sticker album by the end of the tournament in July. We have been very lucky to have so many fantastic donations to our class album so far and as a result  340 of the total 680...
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Homework Projects…

We spent a fabulous afternoon looking at each other’s homework project creations of either a Greek god or goddess. It was fantastic to see a wealth of special features, including different symbols and powers, successfully included in your designs.  
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Wages…

On Tuesday morning we had a very intriguing Maths lesson where each pair found out the average daily, weekly and yearly salaries of different occupations using knowledge of multiplying decimals to calculate these totals successfully.
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Line Graphs

Our maths work has been linked to our Science investigations over the last few days.  We have been working on creating neat and accurate line graphs to show the results of our experiments.
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Speedy Liquid Science

Last week we planned a fair test very carefully in groups and this week we carried out our investigation.  We set up experiments to see the distance particular liquids would travel during a given time.  We tested liquid soap, water, oil, salad cream and honey having first made...
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Gods and Goddesses

We had a tremendous time on Tuesday afternoon looking at all of the wonderful Class 7 Gods and goddesses. Among the fantastic deities created for our homework projects were Alpha, the Goddess of Numbers, Giselle, the Goddess of Fun and Athleticus, the God of Sport!  Thank you all...
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Exploring Greek artefacts…

This afternoon, we had the opportunity to explore some Greek artefacts and discuss what we had learnt about Ancient Greek gods and heroes with one another. It’s amazing how much we can learn from each other! Class 9 – what did you find interesting about the different...
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Experimenting in Science

On Wednesday in Science we carried out two different experiments using solids, liquids and gases. The first experiment we carried out involved combining a liquid and a solid to create a gas. The second experiment required us to observe if a gas could be created from heating up water.
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Frogs!

In English today we were looking at lots of information about frogs. Can you tell someone a fact about a frog?
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Observational Drawings

In Forest Schools on Tuesday we were doing observational drawings of the wildlife area. Everyone looked very carefully at the shapes they could see and drew beautifully with the pastels and oil pastels.     
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Curiosty Club

After a challenging start and a nervous break down Curiosity Club have been sent 2 packets of space seeds labelled blue and red. We don’t know yet but we predict that the red seeds are from space because they are growing quicker. Feel free to have a little peek but DO NOT...
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Frog fact finding

Linking to our topic mini-beasts, we’ve been researching facts about frogs. To do this, we worked with a partner to read a piece of text and highlight any facts that we found. We then summarised these neatly in our English books using bullet points.     ...
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Animal Intuition

We had a great end to last week as we all got to hold some fantastic mini beasts. All of the children were really brave and we were fascinated by the new facts we learnt. There were giant snails, scorpions, giant millipedes, cockroaches, stick insects and even a tarantula! The...
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Subtraction skills

We’ve become pretty secure at our number bonds to 20 so we’ve been using these facts to help us complete subtraction questions confidently. Some of us were able to show the inverse (opposite) underneath our calculations too! We really enjoyed working with a partner to...
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A Greek Legend! 

On Wednesday in class 5 we read the play script of King Midas and the golden touch. We then acted this out in groups and added lots of actions! Miss Clayton was very impressed with our performances!   
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Art

Recently, the children have been creating pieces of art based on the work of Eric Carle. They have produced wonderful minibeasts and will be moving on to building habitats for them!
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King Midas and the Golden Touch

We have started our playscript unit in English. Our first lesson was a fun drama lesson where we acted out a playscript of “King Midas and the Golden Touch”. Here we are rehearsing! We love drama lessons, including our fun warm up!
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Exciting writing.

Can you think of a story using an old wooden door picture for your beginning? The children in Class 2 can! They wrote fantastic stories about what happened when you opened the door, who was there and what happened next. They used great adjectives, connectives and different...
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Art using running colours

The children experimented using tissue paper and water to create a colour running effect to decorate a small creature, such as a fish or a bird.  Please have a look at our class display to see their wonderful art work. 
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Animals in-tuition

Last week the children had some special visitors who were all different shapes and sizes. We met a magnificent millipede, some climate-adapting cockroaches, some slimy snails and a terrifying (well Mr. Gardner thought so anyway) tarantula! Some of the children were brave enough...
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Experiments!

The children carried out three experiments with Mrs Christie in class. Mrs Christie said that the class were all super scientists. Well done Class 6!
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