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A lesson in arguing!

This morning we’ve been looking balanced arguments in more detail, playing a game to get us thinking of arguments for and against a range of different topics. What are the important features of balanced arguments that you need to include?        
Posted On 01 Mar 2016
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What a bright idea!

This afternoon, we continued our electricity work with an investigation into the brightness of a bulb in a circuit depending on the amount of voltage or cells in that circuit. We thought about it fully, considering the different variables we could change and the variables we...
Posted On 29 Feb 2016
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Next week…

English Next week in English we will be looking in more detail at balanced arguments. Year 6s – Remember to complete page 15 in your CGP English book.  Spellings This week we have looked at spellings with the suffixes -ancy and -ency. You have been given ten spellings to learn...
Posted On 25 Feb 2016
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Homework Project

In science you have been learning about electricity. As you know, electricity can be very dangerous if people don’t use it safely and with respect. For your next homework project, we would like you to design a bright and eye catching poster to warn other children of the dangers...
Posted On 25 Feb 2016
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Feeling musical

This afternoon, we learnt about the 6 main elements of music, which got us into a very musical mood. The musicians in the class felt so inspired they wanted to perform a bit of their own music to us – so we had a mini concert in our classroom! Class 9 – Can you...
Posted On 24 Feb 2016
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Going back in time…

This afternoon, we imagined going back in time to what Park Grove would have been like in the Victorian era. We thought about the similarities and differences between schools then and now, before going into character of a Victorian Park Grover. We also tried a bit of Victorian...
Posted On 23 Feb 2016
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Roots to Food!!

What an exciting morning we had at Park Grove today, taking part in our own Ready, Steady, Cook style food competition! Not only was this fun, but we also learnt about the important food groups, what we should (and shouldn’t) eat a lot of and we even got to taste some of...
Posted On 23 Feb 2016
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Horrible Histories – Class 9 style!

What a fantastic class assembly this morning Class 9! You should all be so proud of yourselves for creating an entertaining, enjoyable yet also educational assembly, showcasing some of the interesting things we have learnt in our Victorians topic. I’m so proud of you all!...
Posted On 09 Feb 2016
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Human sentence!

In our grammar session this morning, we focussed on conjunctions and the different word classes. We even created a class human sentence, using a coordinating conjunction to link two clauses and improving the sentence by adding in our own adjectives and adverbs. Remember –...
Posted On 08 Feb 2016
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Homework: 500 words

Project The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before....
Posted On 05 Feb 2016
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Next Week…

Maths In Maths, we will be focusing on reading and converting between measures accurately. We will also be using our mathematical skills to solve number problems. English Next week in English, we will be exploring the active and passive voice in writing, as well as continuing to...
Posted On 05 Feb 2016
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Class 9 Newsletter 05.02.16

05.02.16-Newsletter
Posted On 05 Feb 2016
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Street Child: The Stick Man arrives…

This week we have started reading Street Child in our English lessons, which links with our Victorians topic. We’ve been introduced to the main character, Jim, and his family who are living in poverty in Victorian Britain. In the chapter, Jim’s family are thrown out...
Posted On 04 Feb 2016
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Can you escape our Victorian themed mazes?!

 Over the past couple of weeks, we have using the software Scratch to program our own maze games based around a Victorian theme. We have games involving Queen Victoria searching for her crown, an poor Victorian trying to escape from a debtors prison and even an Oliver themed...
Posted On 03 Feb 2016
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J.U.S.T.I.C.E & F.R.E.E.D.O.M

Today in our RE session, we considered the words ‘justice’ and ‘freedom’ and what they mean to us. We had a great class discussion about different examples of justice and freedom and then, in groups, we created acrostic poems to represent these words. What...
Posted On 02 Feb 2016
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Mission…class assembly!

Heaps of creative ideas were flowing around Class 9 this afternoon as we well and truly got stuck into our (already amazing!) class assembly practice. We can’t wait to show the rest of Park Grove next week!
Posted On 01 Feb 2016
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Touching history…

What an absolute treat we had in class 9 this afternoon! We have been lucky enough to actually touch a bit of Victorian history and looked at some real Victorian coins, an actual Penny Black from 1840 (plus a super rare Tupenny Blue!) and an old musical box called a Symphonium,...
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
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Class 9 Newsletter 29.01.15

29.01.16-Newsletter
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
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Next week…

Maths In Maths, we will be looking at decimals and rounding a range of different numbers up to three decimal places. English Next week in English, we will find out more about the 500 words competition. Start to have a think about what yours could be about? Who will the main...
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
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Homework: 500 Words

The 500 words competition has been launched for 2016 on Radio 2. Lots of you have been asking us about it and are clearly already very excited! We will look at the competition in more detail in our English lessons on Monday so don’t worry if you haven’t entered before. Normally...
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
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Mean Hockey!

No, not nasty hockey – but finding the mean from a range of data about hockey scores! It was quite challenging task in our problem solving maths session today, as we had to interpret data from a bar chart to find the mean number of goals scored by hockey players.   
Posted On 29 Jan 2016
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Spring!

We’ve been feeling very hopeful that Spring is on it’s way as the sun came out this morning, and wrote our own creative poems describing what the Spring season is to us. What do you like most about Spring?
Posted On 28 Jan 2016
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Mrs Pratchett…

In our English lesson this morning, we were looking at an extract from Roald Dahl’s book ‘boy’ about the disgustingly described Mrs Pratchett. Our task was to write an opposite character description using interesting and exciting word choices. Class 9 –...
Posted On 27 Jan 2016
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Mini Morris workshop – Victorian style!

As part of our Topic Enrichment day today, all of KS2 have looked at decorative patterns of flowers, leaves, birds and all  beautiful forms of nature through the work of artist William Morris. Everyone created their own mini piece of Morris inspired art using watercolours, and...
Posted On 26 Jan 2016
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Astro Science Challenge – certificate #2!

Today the whole of KS2 got another certificate for their amazing involvement and contributions to the Astro Science Challenge, which saw them complete challenges to coincide with Tim Peake’s blast off to the ISS. The happy faces show just how much we enjoyed it! Class 9...
Posted On 22 Jan 2016
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Class 9 Newsletter 22.01.16

22.01.16-Newsletter
Posted On 22 Jan 2016
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Next week…

In Maths, we will be multiplying and dividing proper fractions by whole numbers as well as developing our understanding of the mean as an average. Next week in English, we will be focusing on descriptive vocabulary to write character descriptions. On Tuesday 26th January, we will...
Posted On 21 Jan 2016
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Homework Project: Victorians!

Remember for your next homework project we would like you to choose one famous Victorian to write about in an information booklet.  We will display and use the information booklets during lessons this term. You can write about any of the famous Victorians, scientists or inventors...
Posted On 21 Jan 2016
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A Victorian maths investigation…

Linking both our topic and maths this week we have done a Victorian investigation, answering and calculating word problems about Queen Victoria and the Victorian era using different methods. We had to make sure we calculated all questions accurately as most were linked to each...
Posted On 20 Jan 2016
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Electrifying science!

This afternoon in science we have been learning about famous scientists and inventors who are linked to both electricity and our topic, Victorians. We’ve been researching important scientists such as Thomas Edison, Michael Faraday and Nikola Tesla. Miss Platts even brought...
Posted On 19 Jan 2016
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Improvised Industrial Revolution 

Today in PE we explored the Industrial Revolution through dance.  We looked at a brief history of Isambard Kingdom Brunel and his major engineering feats and then translated these into pieces of group, improvised dancing. In our groups, we explored movement in canon and also...
Posted On 18 Jan 2016
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15.01.16 Newsletter

Posted On 15 Jan 2016
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Class 9 Newsletter 15.01.16

Posted On 15 Jan 2016
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Work, terrible work!

Today we’ve delved a little more into life as a Victorian child, looking closely at what jobs they did (as some children didn’t go to school!) and also treating ourselves to a bit of Horrible Histories! http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/music/p00hbc4q   What jobs do you...
Posted On 13 Jan 2016
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Bike It!

What a super fun morning we have had in maths today! We were visited by Sustrans who delivered an exciting and interactive maths activity based all around bikes.  What was your favourite part of the Bike It session?       
Posted On 13 Jan 2016
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Dancing Inventions!

This afternoon, class 9 had a very tricky task – to try and create dance movements inspired by Victorian inventions. We looked at inventions such as the camera, telephone, car and underground railway and compared them to the ones we see today. We then had to create...
Posted On 11 Jan 2016
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New Year, new adventures!

What a busy first week of 2016 we have had in Class 9! We’ve launched straight into our new topic and  I think it’s safe to say that we are all excited about starting lots of different and new work across all of our subjects. What are you most looking forwrad to this...
Posted On 08 Jan 2016
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Class 9 Newsletter 08.01.16

08.01.16 Newsletter
Posted On 08 Jan 2016
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It’s electrifying!

What a fun afternoon starting our new science topic, Electricity! What was your favourite activity out of all the ones we explored?
Posted On 05 Jan 2016
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A very Merry Christmas everyone!!

What a fantastic first, full term we’ve had in Class 9. We’ve been so busy and achieved a great deal already since September! What has been your favourite event or memory from this last term? Also, not forgetting, Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!!!
Posted On 18 Dec 2015
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Class 9 Space Shop!

All of Key Stage 2 visited Class 9 this morning to take part in a huge art project! Everyone in classes 5 to 9 created a little piece of space-y art to add to a space themed collage, which we then displayed in the hall during our Christmas party. It was out of this world!! What...
Posted On 15 Dec 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 11.12.15

11.12.15 Newsletter
Posted On 11 Dec 2015
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Terrific table tennis

This afternoon saw the highly anticipated final of Park Grove’s table tennis ladder league take place, with a fantastic finalist, Jake, from Class 9! The hall was full of excitement as the finalists displayed what everyone could agree was the best table tennis final in the...
Posted On 11 Dec 2015
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Mission…Possible!

Today, in maths, we were given an exciting mission to complete! We had to look closely at the Apollo Missions and convert between days and hours to see which of the 17 missions lasted the longest. We had to beat the clock but, luckily, all of us completed it so mission...
Posted On 09 Dec 2015
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The winner takes it all!

They sure do here in class 9 when playing our new, original, maths card game, created by some of our own class-members! We had a great time being taught this new game and ‘debugging’ it to make improvements for when we play it during some of our maths starters. What...
Posted On 04 Dec 2015
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Powerful Performance Poetry

We got very dramatic in Class 9 today, creating our own performance pieces based on the poem ‘Snow’ by Carol Ann Duffy. It’s a very interesting poem and has lots of powerful imagery, so it was perfect to create some effective and powerful pieces of drama to!...
Posted On 02 Dec 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 27.11.15

27.11.15 Newsletter
Posted On 27 Nov 2015
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Astro Coding – Mission completed!

We’ve just completed our Astro Science Challenge mission all about coding, it’s been great fun and we’ve all learnt a lot – including Miss Platts! You can check out our work on the Mission displays out in the main atrium, but here’s a taster of some...
Posted On 26 Nov 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 20.11.15

20.11.15-Newsletter
Posted On 20 Nov 2015
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Moon gazing…

We’ve been looking a little bit closer at the Moon this week – in particular the 8 phases on the Moon. Last night we saw the First Quarter and now we are moving into the Waxing Gibbous! Have a look outside now – can you see the Moon? What phase is it in? Look at...
Posted On 20 Nov 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 13.11.15

13.11.15-Newsletter
Posted On 13 Nov 2015
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Searching the starry skies!

What an amazing experience we had this afternoon! We were lucky enough to have the Cosmodome from York University at school today, and we had such a fantastic time in the blow up planetarium looking at star constellations in the night sky and exploring the solar system – as...
Posted On 13 Nov 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 06.11.15

6.11.15 Newsletter
Posted On 06 Nov 2015
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Exploring our solar system

This afternoon we’ve explored our solar system through a information sharing activity and discovered the key features of the different planets. What do you know about the planets? Can you name them in order from the Sun?
Posted On 04 Nov 2015
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In a galaxy far, far away…

Today, we took a giant leap into our space topic by exploring an extract from a science fiction piece of writing. We identified many features found in the science fiction genre, which will help us when writing our own. What Sci-Fi features do you know?!
Posted On 03 Nov 2015
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3, 2, 1…Blast off! (Photos from Science Enrichment Day)

I think it’s safe to say we had a fantastic time in Class 9 during the enrichment day on Tuesday! Who and what can you spot in pictures below?!
Posted On 23 Oct 2015
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23.10.15 Weekly Crunch!

What’s been going on in Class 9 this week? “This week we’ve been writing a persuasive letter for a potential exciting school project. We’ve been writing to lots of companies to persuade them to help us!” “On Wednesday, we were visited by CEOP...
Posted On 23 Oct 2015
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Science Enrichment Day

What did you do on the Enrichment day? Which of our core values did it involve?
Posted On 22 Oct 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 16.10.15

16.10.15 Newsletter
Posted On 16 Oct 2015
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16.10.15 Weekly Crunch!

This week we have very busy looking at persuasive writing, and yesterday learnt about Martin Luther King, Jr. and his ‘I have a dream’ speech! Here are a few ‘dreams’ of our own that relate nicely with our marine conservation theme… “I have a...
Posted On 16 Oct 2015
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Cortés and the Aztecs

This afternoon we learnt all about Hernan Cortés and the fall of the Aztec Empire. Did you know that when Cortés first arrived the Aztecs thought he was a god? They also thought that when the Spanish came over on horses they were one whole crazy creature! Ask Class 9 to tell you...
Posted On 14 Oct 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 09.10.15

09.10.15-Newsletter
Posted On 09 Oct 2015
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09.10.15 weekly Crunch!

What have we been doing this week? “Bikeability has started this week and those tyres are screaming!” “I really liked explaining the correct use of apostrophes because it gave us a chance to show Mrs Steel the level we’re at for writing.” “I enjoyed...
Posted On 09 Oct 2015
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24 Hour Clock

Use the 24 hour clock to tell me what you have been up to and what time it happened at. e.g. 20:00 I watched the Great British Bake Off’ final.
Posted On 07 Oct 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 02.10.15

02.10.15 Newsletter
Posted On 02 Oct 2015
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02.10.15 Weekly Crunch!

Every week, we’re going to try and give you a little taste of what we’ve been doing here in Class 9. Here are a few sentences to sum up this week! “We started off the week with a splash! In swimming we were diving under hoops to retrieve a brick from the bottom...
Posted On 02 Oct 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 25.9.15

25.09.15 Newsletter
Posted On 25 Sep 2015
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Exploring under the sea…

This week we continued our exploration theme by learning about the life and work of Jacques Cousteau…an underwater pioneer! We created some fantastic freeze-frames to represent the important events from his life…
Posted On 24 Sep 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter – 18.9.15

18.09.15 Newsletter
Posted On 18 Sep 2015
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High Adventure

What an exciting time Year 6! We loved reading your emails about your super residential visit. What was your biggest achievement of the week?
Posted On 17 Sep 2015
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Class Newsletter – 11.9.15

11.09.15 Newsletter
Posted On 11 Sep 2015
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Welcome everyone to Class 9 !

Although it is our first week in Class 9, we have been doing a range of exhilarating activities. In English, we have recapping our VCOP skills to write about what we have done in the summer holidays. On Wednesday afternoon, we began to investigate our fascinating new topic:...
Posted On 11 Sep 2015
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Pirates of the Curry Bean

What a fantastic performance! Well Done!
Posted On 14 Jul 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 10/07/15

Here is our very last newsletter of the year! Good luck with the play next week. Class 9 Newsletter 10.7.15
Posted On 10 Jul 2015
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France

What information did you include in your French poster?
Posted On 09 Jul 2015
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Descriptive Language

Did you write any interesting phrases about the photographs
Posted On 07 Jul 2015
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Class 9 newsletter

Looking forward to seeing your maps. Would I be able to use your map to find my way from your house to school? Class 9 Newsletter 3.7.15
Posted On 03 Jul 2015
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Chocolate Letters

Who wrote the chocolate letters and why?
Posted On 02 Jul 2015
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Transition Morning

Y5 how did you get on in Class 8? Y6 how did ‘big’ school go?
Posted On 30 Jun 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 26.06.15

I am looking forward to seeing your maps of your routes to school. Class 9 Newsletter 26.6.15
Posted On 26 Jun 2015
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National Coal Mining Museum

What did you think?
Posted On 25 Jun 2015
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Pirates

What do you think of the ‘Pirates of the Curry Bean’?
Posted On 23 Jun 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 19.6.15

Here is the latest newsletter with an interesting new project. Class 9 Newsletter 19.6.15
Posted On 19 Jun 2015
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h = wp

If w = 7 and p = 9 what is h? If h = 40 and p = 4 what is w?
Posted On 16 Jun 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 12/6/15

Here is this week’s newsletter. Class Newsletter 12.6.15
Posted On 12 Jun 2015
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Sponsored Bounce

How many bounces did you do in three minutes?
Posted On 11 Jun 2015
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Topic Enrichment Day

What a fun day! What did you enjoy the most? What did you learn?
Posted On 09 Jun 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 5/6/15

Here is the first newsletter of the half term with an interesting project to complete. Class 9 newsletter 5.6.15
Posted On 05 Jun 2015
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Positive language week

When you thought I wasn’t listening I heard you say…. and I learnt…
Posted On 04 Jun 2015
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Should parents allow 10/11 year olds to go into town by themselves?

Why? Why not?
Posted On 02 Jun 2015
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Happy Half Term!

Remember to have little think about our Cornwall Enrichment Day…
Posted On 21 May 2015
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Tourist Board

How did writing about your fictional county go? Have you persuaded anyone to visit?
Posted On 19 May 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 15.5.15

Here is the latest newsletter. Get those recipes ready! Class 9 Newsletter 15.5.15
Posted On 15 May 2015
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SATs

Well done Year Six! How did they go?
Posted On 14 May 2015
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Counties

Which county should we study in more detail on our Enrichment Day?
Posted On 12 May 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 8/5/15

We are looking forward to the recipes you design for your homework. Good luck to all the Year Sixes who are doing their SATs next week. Have a restful weekend and come in at 8:00 for your breakfast.Class 9 newsletter 8.5.15
Posted On 08 May 2015
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Fictional Counties

What is the name of your county? Why should we visit?
Posted On 07 May 2015
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PowerPoint

What did your friends think of your PowerPoint?
Posted On 05 May 2015
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Class 9 Newsletter 1/5/15

Here is the latest newsletter. I am really looking forward to finding out about different counties next week. Class 9 Newsletter 1.5.15
Posted On 01 May 2015
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Scrambled Eggs!

Have you tried to make this at home? What did you serve it with? Did you vary the ingredients?
Posted On 30 Apr 2015
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