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February 9, 2017
February 9, 2017

Next week

In English next week, we will be continuing our work on instructions and writing instructions of how to create a bridge linked to our Science work. We will also be writing a letter from Goldilocks back to the bears apologising for her actions in their home; the children really enjoyed writing letters last week so...
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February 9, 2017

Next week 

In English we will carry on looking at instructional text. In maths we will be looking at 3D shapes and their properties. Show and Tell next week is for anybody who has something interesting to present to the rest of the class (no toys allowed!). Another maths game has been set up for the children...
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February 9, 2017

Next week 

English  We will be writing our own instructions for making bridges. Class 2 have designed their own bridge and are busy putting it together using  various materials. Since we like the story of Goldilocks so much we will be following instructions on how to make porridge. Let’s hope Goldilocks doesn’t hear about it!  Maths We...
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February 9, 2017

Spellings

Spellings this week will focus on the ‘ear’ phoneme but more specifically the ‘ear’, ‘eer’ and ‘ere’ graphemes.
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February 9, 2017

Building bridges!

The children have been building bridges out of different materials (paper, cardboard and wood) to find out which one is the strongest and could hold a weight.
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February 9, 2017

Homework

Spellings this week  are the sounds ‘ear’ ‘eer’ ‘ier’ and ‘ere’  Don’t forget to access your Maths homework. 
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February 9, 2017

Instructions

Class 2 are brilliant at using bossy words. Their challenge was to give clear and precise instructions to get their team from one side of the room using some equipment. We had great fun and became very imaginative with our instructions.
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February 9, 2017

Next Week In Class 6

Next Week in Class 6 Next week in English we will be looking at prepositions and adverbs. We will also be telling you about the 500 Words Radio 2 competition! In topic, we will be looking at what happened to evacuees in World War Two. In our Science work next week, we will continue to learn...
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February 9, 2017

Homework Project

Imagine a book is being written about the rights and responsibilities of the children of Park Grove Primary School. Your task is to design a cover for the book. You will need to think carefully about how you present the cover because you want people to pick up your book to read! What information will...
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February 9, 2017

Next Week…

Next week in English we will write a creative poem based on Park Grove’s rights and responsibilities. In maths, we will convert between fractions, decimals and percentages in different ways. Other Notes On Wednesday, some of the Y6’s will be visiting NatWest bank as part of their Children’s University Project. If you are going on this trip, you will...
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February 9, 2017

Homework Project

Imagine a book is being written about the rights and responsibilities of the children of Park Grove Primary School. Your task is to design a cover for the book. You will need to think carefully about how you present the cover because you want people to pick up your book to read! What information will...
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February 9, 2017

Changing liquids to a solid

Today in science we were great investigators. We wanted to investigate how to turn solids to liquids and back again. We melted chocolate and turned it to a liquid. We melted ice with a hairdryer and watched it slowly turn to a liquid. We decided if we put the liquids in the freezer they might...
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February 9, 2017

World War II Creative Art!

As part of our topic, we spent the whole of this morning getting our creative juices flowing and following on with our World War II art project where we created nets. Today, we learnt exactly what these were for – to create our own gas mask art boxes, containing blitz watercolour images and our own...
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February 9, 2017

Dressing up 

We love our topic Happily  Ever After, we can role play all our favourite characters, dress up and act out the stories. Who are we today?
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February 9, 2017

The Gingerbread Man Experiment

Class 1 have been investigating what would happen to gingerbread men when in water. To do this experiment the children each had their own gingerbread man which they placed into water. They were then able see and feel the changes that took place!      
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February 9, 2017

Next Week

Next week we will be making Gingerbread Men and measuring and weighing out our ingredients in maths. We will also be writing the recipes in Literacy. It is our final week before half term so we will be finishing off our topic of Traditional Tales.
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February 9, 2017

Homework

This week in our homework books we are practising the new sounds ‘oo’ and ‘ar’. Remember that oo can be short like in ‘book’ and long in ‘moon’.
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February 9, 2017

Forest Schools

In Forest Schools on Tuesday we built twig towers in the shape of triangles, we collected as many sticks as we could find and tried to build the towers tall. In the end we discussed what the twig towers could be and decided they could be a home for an insect or a nest for...
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February 9, 2017

Measuring Lengths

This week in maths we have used playdough and cubes to order different lengths and to measure how many cubes long different lengths of playdough were. It was lots of fun and great to practise our fine motor skills.      
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February 9, 2017

Next Week in Class 7

Next Week We will be continuing to study war poems in English. We will be finding out more about forces in our Science work. Other Notes Parents’ Evenings will take place on Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday morning, we will be going to Haxby Road School to take part in a Google Expedition virtual reality experience. Please...
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