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Planning Meeting
Our next Planning meeting is on Tuesday 17th May – 7pm at the Gillygate.
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//May 11, 2016
Writing and Performing…
On Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon, each group wrote and then performed a religious song about God. There were many fabulous examples of collaborative learning and great creativity in these sessions!
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Spellings
Spellings next week will have a focus on the ‘air’ phoneme. The graphemes representing this phoneme are ‘air’ as in ‘chair’, ‘are’ as in ‘rare’ and ‘ear’ as in ‘bear’.
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Exclamations and questions
It’s not easy recognising the difference between a question and an exclamation, but the children this week have almost become experts in the subject matter. How do I know? How hard they have worked!
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Exciting Writing
This week’s Exciting Writing saw the children writing an information page all about frogs. Lots of the children included the life cycle of a frog and other great facts. Did you know that a female frog can lay up to 2000 eggs?
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Storyboarding…
This afternoon we continued exploring the story of the Trojan Horse by creating our own storyboard of events. We summarised the myth into 6 different scenes, identifying the key events and drawing a visualisation of what the scene could look like. This is all working towards a...
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Jewish artefacts
In RE we have been looking at things that people consider to be special to them and discussed, in class, items that the children cherish. We then looked at the Jewish religion and found out about different artefacts that they find special. All the children were really engaged and...
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Homework
Spellings this week will focus on the ‘air’ sound in words. Variations could include ‘ear’ for pear, ‘ere’ for where and ‘are’ for stare. As always, please encourage your children to use these in a sentence to ensure they understand...
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Exciting exclamations!
We’ve been working hard on our grammar skills in Class 4 this week and we were introduced to the rather tricky concept of exclamation sentences. To write these correctly, we had to make sure our sentences started with ‘what’ or ‘how’, included a verb...
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Movie Maker!
Class 6 tried using Microsoft Movie Maker for the first time today! We had lots of fun finding images of Greek gods online and then turning them into a basic movie on this very cool software. The skills we practised today were: making a folder, adding images, using animation and...
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Let’s play rounders!
For the last few weeks in PE, we’ve been practising and perfecting different skills such as running, throwing and catching. We’re now ready to put these skills into practise by playing rounders! We spent some time listening to and understanding the rules before...
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Homework
Our homework this week is to practise the tricky words ‘are’ and ‘were’. We’ve nearly revealed all of the tricky words on our tree now.
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Outdoor Phonics
We had great fun in rising fives this morning throwing the hoops on to different phonics sounds. We were all very confident at ‘sh’, ‘ch’ and ‘th’ but we need a bit more practise at ‘ai’ and ‘or’.
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Planting Herbs
On Tuesday in Forest Schools the sun had disappeared and there was lots of rain and unfortunately lots of us had not brought a coat! So we decided to stay in our outdoor area and plant some herbs in the bed by our classroom. This was also a great chance to check on our sunflowers...
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Singing Picnic
On Monday all of the reception children were involved in a singing picnic with Haxby Road School. We were so lucky with the weather as it was lovely and sunny. We had lots of fun singing songs with Mrs McCartney in a HUGE circle on the field and then sitting in the cool shade for...
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BBC News – Education
- Birthday card delivered almost nine years lateA father says his 10-year-old son was "gobsmacked" to receive a birthday card almost nine years late.
- Going to university 'transformed my life'Dr Suzella Palmer dropped out of school aged 14, but returned to education and is now a lecturer.
