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March 8, 2017

Homework 

This week our two sounds to practise are ‘air’ and ‘er’. Can you have a go at writing these sounds in your homework books?
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Speed Quiz Tickets 

Tickets go on sale this week (outside class 4). Who is coming and what is your team’s name?
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Cops and Robbers

The children have been writing expanded noun phrases all about the villains from Janet and Allan Ahlberg’s book ‘Cops and Robbers’.
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World Book Day

The children all brought fantastic props in from their favourite books or dressed up as different characters and looked fantastic. We had a great day where all our learning was based around different stories!   
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Next Week in Class 5

Next Week in Class 5 Next week in English we will be writing a diary entry linked to My Secret War Diary, by Flossie Albrigh. In our topic lesson we will be doing writing linked to our visits to the theatre. In our Science work next week, we will explore how magnets work. Other Notes Please...
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Homework Project

Your next homework project will have a P.E. theme. We would like you to write and lead a short warm-up activity of approximately five minutes for a P.E. lesson related to our current hockey unit. You could use existing ideas such as follow the leader or you could make up an activity for the whole...
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Key Stage Two Assembly

Students and staff from Joseph Rowntree School came to present our Key Stage Two assembly this week. They spoke about the exciting opportunities available to children who go to the secondary school. Hopefully children in class were inspired by what they heard about Key Stage Three!
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Searching for treasure…

In science this week we looked at how magnets are used for directions. We looked at a compass and how it works. Then, we went outside to solve clues using the directions on a compass. Finally, we found the treasure which was hidden in the south-west corner of the field.
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Class 9 and the Very Old Logbook…

Today we created snippets of diary entries about how the WWII affected Park Grove. We used the logbook which dated from the late 1800s and that all the headmasters and mistresses from Park Grove wrote in. We used this to help create our own diary entries as if we were at Park Grove in those...
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Making Milkshakes!

After being inspired by the story of Oliver’s Milkshake we have decided to make our own! We carefully cut up bananas, strawberries and blueberries. We then put them all in a liquidiser and poured in the milk. Finally we all tasted the delicious, healthy milkshakes.         
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WWII Park Grove School Diary ?

The children read extracts from a diary that Park Grove Primary School kept during World War II. It was fascinating hearing about how the war affected children at the school at this time. The children took a real life event and embellished it to create their own PG War diaries! The finished booklets look wonderful.
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Reading with Class 5

On Monday afternoon we were very lucky to have a visit from Class 5 who had all been fantastic authors on World Book Day. They had all written their own versions of ‘The Tiger Who Came To Tea’ and came to read them to us. Both classes behaved brilliantly and were excellent listeners. Thank you...
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