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June 30, 2016

Next week

In English we will be looking at the ‘5 Ws’ (who, where, what, why and when) and using them in our writing. In maths we will be learning new methods to help with our additions and subtractions. There will be no PE run by Total Sports this week due to a transition day but the...
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Spellings

Next week’s spellings will again focus on the ‘or’ phoneme but with a focus on the ‘au’, ‘aw’, ‘augh’ and ‘al’ graphemes.
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Letters

The children wrote a letter today to their new class teacher telling them how excited they are about being in their class next year. They all had plenty of questions to ask which we are hoping to answer in the next few weeks!
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Teddies galore 

Here is the Teddy hospital! Every teddy you donate for the teddy tombola is lovingly checked, cleaned and tagged. Thank you for every single teddy/tombola and sweet donation to date. Please keep them coming in, we have a four hour event to fill!
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Not just a Gig but GIG..ANTIC

Grovestock – Not just a Gig but “Gig-antic” (Saturday 9th July 1-5pm)  Our plans for Grovestock are growing by the day with a huge amount of work going on behind the scenes to get Grovestock off the ground and it just seems to keep getting better! Why come? Grovestock will be an amazing Music Festival...
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Winter wonderland 

Another great raffle prize worth winning! This has got to be worth at least £32? Thank you to Yorkshire Winter Wonderland for such a generous donation.
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Next Week

Next week is another busy one, we are going to be practising our skills for sports day. On Wednesday we have our transition mornings to new classes, all children should come to class 1 in the morning to be registered and we will then move on to our new classes.  On Friday it is Sports...
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Homework

Well done for the great homework on patterns this week. We have a new maths challenge in our homework books to look at this week.
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Next week…

The Year 5’s will continue to explore “The Adventures of Odysseus” and will develop their skills to work mathematically to solve problems. The end of year play is getting closer for the Year 6’s so we will be continuing to hone our singing and acting skills to produce a fantastic performance. Please ensure your lines...
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Spelling 

This weeks spelling are the sounds ‘or’ and ‘aw’ 
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Next week

Class 2 are really looking forward to visiting their new class on Wednesday and meeting their new teacher. So exciting!  Also, we will be getting ready for Sports Day the following week. 
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Drama 

We’ve had lots of fun in our puppet show this week using masks to retell our stories. Can you guess what our favourite story might be? 
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Community garden visit 

We visited the community garden on Haxby Road and planted flowers. We also completed a tree spotting activity. On the way back to school we got soaked by the rain, but it didn’t spoil our fun. A big thank you to all the parent helpers, we couldn’t do it without you. Please feel free to...
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Homework Project

Remember that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests...
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Homework Projects…

We had great fun looking at each other’s exciting homework projects, which were filled with interesting facts and information about capital cities around the world – from Ottawa to Rome, Class 8 had it covered!
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Art Enrichment Day…

Class 8 had a great day of art-based fun with the main activity making and painting a mod rock fish. The results were spectacular and displayed a whole host of creativity on show in this class.
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Next Week…

The Year 5’s will continue to explore “The Adventures of Odysseus” and will develop their skills to work mathematically to solve problems. The end of year play is getting closer for the Year 6’s so we will be continuing to hone our singing and acting skills to produce a fantastic performance. Please ensure your lines...
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Letter writing 

We wrote letters to our new teachers for next year. We had fun thinking what to say and what questions we want to ask. Most common one was ‘What time do we go for lunch?’ 
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Assembly class 2 Tuesday 

Great assembly class 2 well done you all worked really hard and all the parents enjoyed it. So proud of you! 
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be continuing our work on superheroes and villains. Spellings This week we have looked at further homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In maths next...
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Next week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 English Next week in English we will be continuing our work on superheroes and villains. Spellings This week we have looked at some more homophones. We have given you 10 spellings to learn. Please also complete the activity on your spelling sheet, ready for your test next week. Maths In...
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Homework Project

Just a reminder that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting...
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Brazilian Food

As part of our Design and Technology learning, Class 6 made four Brazilian dishes. This has helped us to know a little more about the country where the up and coming Olympics will be held! The children made Brigadeiros (popular Brazilian chocolate truffles), Pão de Queijo (street food – a type of cheese bread), acai, banana and...
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Homework Project

Just a reminder that for your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting...
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The Commutative Law

In maths this week we have been learning about the commutative law. We practised answering questions using this law and then we created a poster to help us remember the rules for each calculation. We have put these in our books to help us remember this work.    
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Pirate Ship

Our role play area has transformed this week from an international airport to a pirate ship! We have had great fun dressing up and pretending to be on a pirate adventure and writing messages in bottles.        
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I do like to be beside the seaside

As the weather has been so terrible during June we have decided to make our own beach inside class 1, even with our own Palm tree! All of the children have had fun burying their toes in the sand and building sand castles.        
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Homework Project…

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....
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Greenfield Community Garden

On Tuesday afternoon we were very lucky to have our class trip to the community garden on Haxby Road. It was a great chance to identify different trees, plant some new plants in the beds and also learn about growing different plants and the seasons. Unfortunately it started to pour down with rain so we...
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Next Week

Next Week in Class 7 English We will be continuing our work on superheroes Maths We will be honing our problem solving skills Other Notes On Monday afternoon we are off for our tour of the new Theatre Royal building.  Make sure you are dressed for the weather! Please remember that our class will be...
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Homework

For your next homework project, we’d like you to design a sporting mascot. As we’ve been finding out about Euro 2016 and the Rio Olympics this half term, you might like to link your mascot to one of these events. You could, however, create a mascot for any sport or sporting event that interests you....
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New Olympic events

We have been having fun designing our own new Olympic events this week.  We gave thought to the rules of our new sport, who could play, what special equipment might be needed and what people might wear.
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Digestion Drama

In our Science lesson this week, we acted out the digestion system.  We split into teams and explained the functions of each part of human digestion.  A big thank you to George for acting out the part of the food being swallowed!
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Fabulous Fish!

The clay fish we made on Art Enrichment Day are drying nicely and we’ll be glazing and putting them in the kiln soon.
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