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7 February 2021

Y1 Practical Maths at Home

Year 1 are using a range of resources to support their Maths learning at home.  It’s amazing what you can use in the house to help you learn.  We were amazed to find how many 3D shapes exist in our homes.  To help us make tens and ones we found Lego to be really helpful.  Pasta, chocolate,…

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7 February 2021

Y1 Captain Sir Tom Moore Tributes and Prayers

Year 1 talked about the passing of Captain Sir Tom Moore in their daily Zoom lesson. We wanted to pay tribute to this wonderful man.  The children created pictures, prayers and words of thanks to celebrate his life and contribution to our country. 
 

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7 February 2021

Y1 What makes you happy?

As part of Mental Health Awareness Week we asked Year 1 to think about What makes you happy?
Year 1 responded by sending in photos to show the range of things that make them feel happy.  We chatted in our Zoom lesson to explain more.  The children spoke of having brothers and sisters to play with…

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5 February 2021

Year 2 celebrate Children’s Mental Health Week 2021

During the week of 1st - 5th February 2021 Year 2 celebrated Children’s Mental Health Week. This year’s theme was to Express Yourself. The children took part in a range of activities from mindfulness sessions to creative activities. They spent some time exploring their feelings through the story…

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5 February 2021

Children’s Mental Health Week 2021

During Mental Health awareness week Y5 learnt about the importance of Well being and made posters to show how this can be achieved. We discussed what we like doing to make us feel happy and made worry boxes to put all our worries in so we can focus on happy things instead.

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5 February 2021

Designing Fireworks

Year 5 have been reading 'The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ and were asked to design a firework that could help Lila and Lalchand win the competition! I think you’ll agree we have some future pyrotechnicians in the making! 

 

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4 February 2021

Journalistic Writing Y4

Year 4 are reading ‘Beowulf’ retold by Michael Morpurgo. They wrote in role as a journalist to report on Grendel’s first attack on the mead hall. 
 

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3 February 2021

Keeping Active in Year 4

Even though many of us are having to spend a lot more time at home, Year 4 have been taking part in different activities to keep their bodies moving. 
 

 

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3 February 2021

Y6 Art Perspective Drawing

Our Y6 children were once again challenged to refine their drawing skills in their Art lesson this week. They learnt ways to demonstrate perspective and both the children learning at home and in school produced some impressive results. 

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2 February 2021

Magic from Our Reception Children

Along with their work on shape and number and following all their Speed Sound sessions, the Reception children talked about the Gruffalo’s friend, the kind witch, who invited all her animal friends to share her broom until it was too heavy and it snapped in two!  The children were challenged to…

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29 January 2021

Y1 Sinking and Floating Investigation

Year 1 have enjoyed investigating floating and sinking at home.  They selected various objects around the house to test.  They predicted and then tested the different materials.  Great home learning Year 1.  

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29 January 2021

Tudor houses

This week Year 2 learned about the impact of the Great Fire of London then spent the rest of the week working on a design technology project. They had to use their knowledge of what Tudor houses were made from to create their own models of a Tudor house showing as much detail as possible. They…

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