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Watercolour painting, sharing books, programming b-bots with algorithms, building a slide and playing with water.

This term we have been working hard and having lots of fun in Azure Class. We start the day with deliberate and retrieval practise for SPaG and maths. Here we are practising writing graphemes, matching contractions, matching suffixes and sorting words into nouns,...

We have been learning about rocks,fossils and soils in science. Metamorphic,sedimentary and igneous are the three forms of rock. Not long ago we were doing a fossil collectors guide. Anommite  is one of the fossils we have looked at, and there are more so here is some...

STEM Space Industry Visitor https://youtu.be/aFaGxR8_sIU On Monday year 5 and 6 had a visitor called Camilla.  She’s a scientist and space expert.  She told us about all the jobs you can do if you want to be in the space industry.  To do that you need to study science...

This term we have been very busy in Royal class! We are doing The pebble in my pocket in English where we described a pebble and made a poem about it. We are learning lots about how the Earth was made. In maths are learning about numbers with decimal places and doing...

Sapphire Class Newsletter English This term we have been reading a picture book called The Pebble in my pocket. It is a non-fiction text but presented as a story of the history of our world. We’ve all got pebbles to focus on. We are learning about how the world came...

Year One in Teal Class have been creating some delicious and healthy yogurt bowls in their DT lessons. The children demonstrated great cutting skills when chopping up the fruit and loved sitting in the sunshine eating them once they were ready

Dear Parents/ Carers, ‘On Monday (little bit rainier than Tuesday) we went on a 6 mile walk through Princess Anne’s estate and across to Avening. We were going a rock tour- as in a tour of local stone age standing stones. We saw a stone with a hole in it that had been...

We basically did a human timeline on the field with a very, very long tape measure.  One end was now and one end was the past.  We put people at different points in history that we've learned in school. I was Howard Carter (the man who found Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922...

This week we have had a few days without the noisy Y4s because they have been on their residential to Viney Hill. Because of this, the Y3s were split into 2 groups and have spent Monday to Wednesday being busy. We had a mini English unit all about mythical creatures...

Sky Class English In English we've been writing  stories. We were read Kidnapped by Pie Corbett to inspire us. We were allowed to either continue the story, retell it in your own words or change it. We did it on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. It was fun because we had...

We have come to the end of another busy term here in Royal class and have had lots of fun! In English we have done poetry on the Werewolf Club Rules by Joseph Coelho. We have annotated quite a few of his poems, we have written some of own versions based on his...

Although we only had three days in class this week, we managed to fill them up with lots of exciting activities. Along with Maths and starting our new unit 'Anna Hibiscus Song' in Literacy, we had fun doing some artwork. We all painted beautiful pictures of our...

Cyan class has been working very hard on the play Ye Ha,every Friday. Instead of doing P.E we dance in class for the play.Every Thursday year 4 would practice after school in the hall.At the start it wasn’t looking so good but now it is forming together and filling in...

In DT we made wooden bird boxes from a kit using wood, nails and glue.  Then we designed our own bird box for different birds (ours was for a robin).  We then made prototypes out of spar wood and wood glue.  It was fun but a bit tricky.  Sawing the wood was not easy...

English Poetry - We started this week looking at poems by Joseph Coelho who is the Children's Laureate. He has written lots of different poetry collections including the one we are studying this term, Werewolf Club Rules. His poems are easy to grasp and he talks about...

Teal Class has been… Learning the definition of a reptile Making crocodile books and writing crocodile facts Making, building and testing bridges for strength in Design and Technology Balancing in PE Learning what people believe in RE Playing and learning, learning...

ART In art we have been studying figurative drawings. We have drawn miniature models in lots of different positions. Bill Brant and Henry Moore have inspired us, we have copied some of their most famous drawings and learned lots of facts about them and their lives. ...