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January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017

Homework Project

Thank you all for your wonderful research projects based on people who took part in the Second World War. For your next task, we’d like you to think about how people on the Home Front supported the war effort by growing their own food, salvaging waste or making do and mending clothing or household items....
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January 18, 2017

Tremendous Theatre Trip!

On Wednesday, Class 8 were very fortunate to take part in a fun-filled day of drama activities at the De Grey rooms, relating to the exciting war based text we are currently reading in class – Carrie’s War. The children learnt a lot about life as an evacuee, as well as exploring a range of significant characters from the story so far using techniques such...
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January 18, 2017

Take Shelter!

On Wednesday afternoon, an air-raid siren sounded in Class 7 and we all made our way in an orderly fashion to our newly constructed air-raid shelter (thank you, Mr Stoner!).  Once inside, we discussed how people during WW2 might have kept themselves occupied during air-raids so we had a good old sing-song and shared stories…
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January 18, 2017

Three Billy Goats Gruff

The traditional tale hat the children are currently focusing on in The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We’ve been adapting the story by changing the characters/setting to make it our own!
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January 18, 2017

Homework

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘ow’ phoneme. This will also include ‘ou’ for cloud! In your homework books, why don’t you practise partitioning numbers in different ways like we’ve done in maths? Try and think of at least two different ways that you can partition the tens and units in each number! Your...
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January 18, 2017

Shadow Puppets

In art, the children created shadow puppets to help recreate the story of the Three Little Pigs.
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January 18, 2017

Partitioning

In maths the children have been partitioning numbers in more ways than one to gain a greater understanding of place value.
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January 18, 2017

The Three Billy Goats Gruff

As part of our topic Happily Ever After, we have begun learning about a different fairy tale… The Three Billy Goats Gruff! We’ve used drama work in class to help us understand the story and some of us filmed our group using an iPad! We then began to retell the story on paper by drawing...
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January 18, 2017

Energy Heroes Strike Again

Our Year 5 children continued their work on their ‘Energy Heroes’ project this week in a lesson on interpreting pie charts (linked to fossil fuels and energy consumption) with Mrs Steel.
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January 18, 2017

Partitioning

Weve been using base 10 in maths this week to show how many tens and units a number has. We’re now beginning to learn how to record partitioning in different ways such as 70+2= 72 and 60+12=72!      
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January 18, 2017

Carrie’s War Theatre Workshop

On Monday this week we had a brilliant trip to York Theatre Royal (as part of our Long Term Partnership Project) to take part in a drama workshop based on ‘Carrie’s War’.  We created and performed our own scenes, explored characters and settings from the book, wrote our own dialogue and even got to question...
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January 18, 2017

The Lion and the Unicorn

We started to read our new book in English! We think the pictures are wonderful and they really helped us with our descriptive writing in class. We all look forward to finding out what happens to the main character, Lenny, next.
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January 18, 2017

The Lion and the Unicorn

On Wednesday in class 5 we began reading the story of ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ by Shirley Hughes. We looked at her fantastic artwork and used these pictures to help us write descriptive sentences about the different settings in the story so far.
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