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January 5, 2017

Next week…

English Next week in English we will be starting to read the story “Carrie’s War” by Nina Bawden. We will be doing some creative writing based on events from the first few chapters. Maths In maths next week we’ll be reading, writing and comparing numbers with up to seven digits and starting to explore shape. Reading...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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Welcome Back Everyone!

We’ve had a fantastic start to the New Year in Class 8 and have very much enjoyed hearing all about the exciting things everyone has been getting up to over the festive period!  We’ve also been looking forwards to a new term in Class 8 and the many exciting activities we will be doing in the next few weeks!
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Timelines…

On Wednesday afternoon, we started to look at key events from World War 2 and ordered them on a timeline in our books. We will be looking at some of these events in greater detail in the upcoming weeks!  
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Homework Project…

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...
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Next Week…

English Next week in English we will be starting to read the story “Carrie’s War” by Nina Bawden. We will be doing some creative writing based on events from the first few chapters. Maths In maths next week we’ll be working reading, writing and comparing numbers with up to seven digits and starting to explore shape. Reading...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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Next week

Next week in English, we will be continuing our work on The Three Little Pigs and using drama work to develop our understanding of the story and characters. We will then describe the characters and retell the story using a story map to sequence the key events. In maths, we will be developing our multiplication...
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Next Week in Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 English Next week in English we will be writing a biography about one of the British World War 2 Prime Ministers, Winston Churchill. Maths In maths next week we’ll be working on fractions and decimal fractions. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened.   For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you...
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Spellings

Spellings this week will focus on the phonemes ‘ar’ and ‘ure’ as in ‘car’ and ‘cure’. 
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Next week

In English next week we will carry on looking at The Three Pigs. In maths we will be looking at counting and starting to tackle multiplication and division.  Show and Tell is Group 1 on Friday.  Please make sure PE kits are in next week and that reading records are brought in to school every...
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Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ar and ure graphemes. Examples may include farmer, carpet, injure and picture. In your homework books, how about retelling the story of The Three Little Pigs? Focus on putting the key events in the story in the correct order! 
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The Three Little Pigs

The children have started to look at the story of The Three Little Pigs and had the opportunity to act it out today in front of the rest of the class. There are definitely some Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winsletts in the making! 
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What’s the weight?

In maths this week, we have been doing lots of practical work weighing objects! We began by placing two objects in our hand and comparing which one was heavier and lighter. We then began estimating how much we think an object would weigh by holding small weights in our hand, such as 100g, and comparing...
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Happy New Year

Welcome back, I hope you all had a great Christmas (I know I did!) and a happy New Year. 
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Welcome back!

Welcome back to Park Grove everybody, we hope had a fantastic Christmas and New Year! We’re excited to get stuck into our new topic… Happily Ever After! We will be working on The Three Little Pigs, The Three Billy Goats Gruff and Goldilocks and the Three Bears. What other fairytales do you know? 
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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 Winston Churchill by writing a biography about him. Maths In maths next week we’ll be looking at decimals and fractions. Reading Please remember to bring your yellow Reading Record into school so that we can fill it in...
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Homework Project

Our Spring topic in Key Stage 2 is World War II. This is a fascinating topic in which many important events happened. For your first homework project of 2017 we would like you to carry out either research into a significant person from the war or interview and collect the memories of someone you know...
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Founders

In RE this week we began to look at what the term ‘founder’ means, in particular founders within religion. We learnt what this term meant and then used the iPads to research recent founders within our society. 
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Welcome back! 

We hope that everyone in class 5 and their families had a lovely holiday filled with plenty of fun. It is great to see you all again and we are looking forward to having another super half term in class 5. 
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New Year’s Resolutions

This week the children learnt about New Year customs and traditions in the world. They then reflected on themselves, thinking about their goals for 2017. Each child wrote what they would like to achieve, a resolution for this and how they will carry out their ambitions. Good luck to all of the children with their...
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Welcome Back!

Wishing all of the children and parents of Class 6 a very happy 2017! We hope that you all had a restful holiday and are ready for this busy Spring term! Well done children for an enthusiastic start to the year and keep it up!
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Next Week

Next week we will be continuing to think about the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and trying to retell the story and label lots of the characters. We will also be starting Show and Tell, please check the noticeboard outside the classroom to see if it is your turn to bring something in...
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Homework

For homework this week please can you practise reading and writing the tricky words ‘you’ and ‘are’. We are all exciting to start learning some new sounds in phonics next week!
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Three Bears’ House

Our new role play area is the house from Goldilocks and the Three Bears house, we have been thinking about the characters in the story and have three bears, three chairs and lots of porridge!
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Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a fantastic Christmas break and that you are feeling refreshed for the start of 2017. This half term our topic is ‘Happily Ever After’ so we will be looking at lots of different traditional tales.
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