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3 March 2023

Nursery in the Wonder Dome

What a super time have had in the Wonderdome!

We travelled to space and got to learn all about the planets and stars in the solar system. We even got to see what it was like on the moon. We loved that we were surrounded by the stars and planets, it was like we were really in space! 

We also…

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3 March 2023

Reception’s World Book Day

After reading our story of the week ‘Dear Zoo’, the children were given clues that we had to read to help them find the missing animals. The children worked as a team to find them all and even stopped the Big Bad Wolf from eating the puppy! The children came in dressed as their favourite character…

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3 March 2023

Y6 visit the Wonder Dome

Y6 were absolutely thrilled to be treated to a session in the Wonder Dome - a mobile 3D planetarium. Once inside, they went on a journey to space and learned about how there could well be life on other planets. What an experience! 

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2 March 2023

African Drumming with Zozo

Today we welcomed back Zozo to continue our learning playing African Drums. We learnt about the syllables in our names and used the Djembe (drums) to create the beats. We learnt how to hold an open hand position on the Djembe.  Zozo taught a new song about a chicken and we loved putting actions to…

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2 March 2023

Y1 World Book Day

Year 1 loved celebrating World Book Day. We enjoyed dressing up as our favourite characters. In class we made our own poems and shared our work together. It was fun sharing our favourite stories and listening to new ones. 
 

 

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2 March 2023

Forest School Fun for Year 1

Year 1 enjoyed their first Forest School session today at Longlands Lake. We enjoyed exploring the woodland, jumping in muddy puddles and being outside. It was so much fun to relax in hammocks. Walking to the Forest School we enjoyed spotting all the different wildlife around.  We can’t wait for…

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2 March 2023

Computing Club: World Book Day digital artwork

The Reception and Key Stage 1 children who attended Computing club on World Book Day explored the various painting tools in the 2Paint program. They used these tools to create their own digital artwork of their favourite characters from books they know. Afterwards they spent some time exploring…

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2 March 2023

World Book Day in Year 2 2023

What a wonderful day we had in Year 2 for World Book Day! We used our class text ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’ to inspire us to create our own rhythm of the rain using body percussion. Then we read some more of the text pausing at the point where the main character, Issac, followed his jar to the…

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2 March 2023

World Book Day Y4 2023

For World Book Day, Year 4 studied the poem ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou. First we found out about Maya Angelou, which helped us understand the poem. After reading the poem together, we discussed the central themes and messages of the poem and the different poetic devices and vocabulary used to…

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2 March 2023

Year 3 World Book Day fun

Year 3 had a great time on World Book day: Reading about spies in our class text, Operation Gadgetman, we considered what spies might need in their spy kit. We created wonderful periscopes, thanks to Mrs Williams for providing us with some templates, we had no need to use scissors to cut tough…

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2 March 2023

World Book Day in Nursery

What a super day we have had celebrating world book day! We have read our favourite stories and came to Nursery dressed as our favourite characters too! 

We have also had two special treats today! This morning we visited year 3 who read some of their favourite picture books and stories to us…

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2 March 2023

Extreme Reading in Y6 for World Book Day

Y6 were set a World Book Day challenge: to find an area of the classroom where they could read in an u usual but quiet and focused way. They all enjoyed their favourite books in some weird and wonderful places and positions!

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