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May 5, 2016
May 5, 2016

Next Week

We have a very busy week next week, we have our singing picnic on Monday so don’t forget you can either have a pack up or a grab bag on Monday lunchtime. We are all keeping our fingers crossed for sunny weather so that we can have fun singing with Haxby Road outside. We have...
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May 5, 2016

Homework

Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘when’ and ‘do’. Can you think of a sentence with these words in?
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May 5, 2016

Sunshine!

The weather this week has been much sunnier so we have loved being outside. We have been using plastic balls in the water area and feeding them down drain pipes to make a huge adding machine!
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May 5, 2016

Next week in Class 4

In maths, the Year 2s will be spending a few days strengthening their skills of mental arithmetic. This will be a great opportunity for the children to ask any questions about particular methods they should be using or types of questions they are unsure of. In the meantime, the Year 1 children will be further...
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May 5, 2016

Next week…

English Next week the Year 5 children will be continuing to look at Odysseus  and the Year 6 children will be doing their Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation test. Reading Next week the Year 6s will be completing their SATs reading papers – good luck everyone! Maths Next week in maths we will all be doing...
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May 5, 2016

Homework Project

As you know, this half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and have learnt 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. This could be for a Spartan, Athenian or Persian soldier, or...
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May 5, 2016

Animals -in -Tuition

The children had a fantastic experience last Friday. Animals -in Tuition visited Park Grove and brought lots of mini beasts to show the children.  We saw spiders, millipedes, a scorpion, and stick insects. We were able to touch them, hold them and discovered some amazing facts about their bodies and how they live. The children...
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May 5, 2016

Spellings 

The spellings  for this week is the sound ‘oi’ and the alternate spelling for the same sound, spelt ‘oy’. 
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May 5, 2016

Next week

Next week, in English, we will be looking at grammar skills to help improve the quality of the children’s writing. In maths we will be looking at data handling and fractions. Show and tell is Orange group. Flapjacks are sold on Thursdays so remember to bring 50p if you’d like one. Please remember to bring...
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May 5, 2016

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. This could be for a Spartan,...
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May 5, 2016

Next week…

English Next week the Year 5 children will be continuing to look at Odysseus  and the Year 6 children will be doing their Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation test. Reading Next week the Year 6s will be completing their SATs reading papers – good luck everyone! Maths Next week in maths we will all be doing...
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May 5, 2016

Spellings 

Spellings this week have a focus on the ‘oi’ phoneme. The graphemes are ‘oi’ as in oil and ‘oy’ as in boy. 
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May 5, 2016

A mysterious door…

The children have produced some excellent work this week in their Exciting Writing. They were presented with a picture of a mysterious door and had to create a story about the events that would unfold if they were to walk through it. The children’s imagination definitely came to life. Well done Class 3!
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May 5, 2016

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on words containing ‘oi’ for coin or ‘oy’ for boy. As always, please encourage your children to use this words in their own sentences to practise other writing skills too! Perhaps when reading with your child you could ask them to find oi/oy words in the book?
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May 5, 2016

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. This could be for a Spartan,...
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May 5, 2016

Next week in class 5

Next Week in Class 5 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 complete the activity on your...
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May 5, 2016

Snail update

In February we welcomed two new members to class 5, Wallace and Gromit! They are our class pets who are giant African land snails. Wallace and Gromit are doing well and both are growing in size! We are continuing to look after them and feed them regularly.
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May 5, 2016

Next Week

English In English next week we will be exploring the story of Arachne and Athena.  We’ll be looking at why the Gods often behave so badly in Greek myths and will also be creating character profiles. Maths In maths we will be calculating the area of triangles and parallelograms. Other notes We will be testing...
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May 5, 2016

Homework

This half term we’ve been looking at the Ancient Greeks, and have learnt 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. This could be for a Spartan, Athenian or Persian soldier, or could even...
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