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Spelling
The spellings for the week are the sound ‘ear’ and the alternate spellings for the same sound.
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Making a web
We read the story of The very busy Spider by Eric Carle and the Reception children wanted to make a web for the busy spider. They also wrote a sentence about the story.
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Mini beast hunt
Class 2 had a fantastic time searching the forest for mini beasts. We found worms, wood lice, snails and slugs. The children looked closely at their habitats and wrote about them in their science books.
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Next week
Next week in maths we will be doing some additional work on telling the time. We will be doing lots of practical works with the mini clocks and securing our understanding of where the minute and the hour hand should be pointing for specific times. In English, we will be doing...
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Homework
Spellings this week will focus on the ‘ear’ sound. Variations may include ‘ere’ for here, ‘eer’ for dear and ‘ier’ for pier. Perhaps when reading with your child, you could also encourage them to find ‘ear’ words in...
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Experimenting in Class 4
As part of our scientific work on plants and wildlife, we have planted our very own sunflower seeds! We’re conducting an experiment to see which plants will grow the best depending on where they are kept. We have some on the window ledge, some in the classroom and some in...
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Do you know that….?
It is the Spring Cake Stall next week on: Wednesday 25th May. We are often asked if shop bought cakes are ok – yes please, they are perfectly fine – absolutely any cakes/buns/biscuits/bakes are very much appreciated. Please bring any items to the staff room on the...
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Super spectrum spinners!!
Today we had a super fun science lesson all about the visible spectrum. We learnt that light is made up of all the rainbow colours and if you look through a glass prism you can see the visible spectrum. We then created some awesome colour wheels that when spun really fast,...
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Food chains
In science this week the children all learned about food chains and familiarised themselves with the terms ‘producer’ and ‘consumer’. I wonder if you could think of an example for each one?
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Habitats
This week the children have made habitats for minibeasts using shoe boxes and a range of different materials. They all look absolutely wonderful!
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Freezy Friday
Freezy Friday There will be another Ice cream stall in the amphitheatre this Friday after school. If it is raining, the stall will be where the cake stall is held. Thank you to all who attended last week, it was a lovely atmosphere out there with lots of excited children and...
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Next week in Class 5
Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we are going to be continuing to write our Greek myths. Spellings This week we have looked at the ‘sion’ sound in our spelling lesson. We have given you 10 more spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on...
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Homework Project
A reminder that for your next homework project we would like you to create an Ancient Greek word search for your classmates to solve. You can use as many topic words related to Ancient Greece as you wish but please ensure your spelling of each word is accurate. Your word search...
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Evaporation experiment!
In Science this week we planned an experiment to see if the location of a puddle would affect the speed at which it evaporates! We have placed six trays of water in different locations around the school and we are going to come back to them later on in the week to find out the...
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Pond Dipping
Today in Forest Schools we took some nets and sieves down to the pond to see what we could find. All the children behaved very sensibly and were very safe by the edge of the pond. We found lots of pond weeds, some different bugs such as ‘Water boatmen’ and...
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Planning our Greek myth
On Wednesday in English we continued to plan our Greek myths. We had to decide upon which locations are hero would visit and design our mythical creature. We are looking forward to writing our myths!
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Stupendous Shields
We’ve been sharing our brilliant homework projects and now that we know how the hoplites fought, have been getting into battle formation with our shields!
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Ancient Greek Warfare
We’ve really enjoyed researching the battle tactics, weaponry and armour of the Ancient Greeks this week. We’ve created Greek urn designs showing how the Greeks fought and have found out all about hoplites, triremes and battering rams!
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Book Sharing Session
We had a lovely time at our KS2 book sharing session on Tuesday. Parents had the opportunity to look through our wonderful books and we shared and evaluated our own work with our classmates. What a lot of topics we’ve covered!
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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.
