4 November 2016

W/E 4th November 2016

Literacy

This week, we are focusing on writing a spooky story. We have looked at a range of pictures, watched videos and listened to pieces of music for inspiration. Miss Saville wrote a piece that we analysed, looking at sentence structure, punctuation and vocabulary. We then used it to write…

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2 November 2016

Wednesday 2nd November 2016

After a lovely half term break, Maple Class have quickly got back into the swing of school life! On the last day before the holiday, Maple and Ash Classes enjoyed an amazing day out at the Danby Moors Centre learning many new geographical skills whilst having lots of fun! 

 

 

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28 October 2016

21st October

Another great week in Ash Class! This week we have been writing poetry. We completed our poems entitled 'Mysteries' and then learnt about Kenning Poems and of course - created our own. We all agreed in Ash class that writing poetry had been more fun than we expected! In other writing this week we…

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22 October 2016

21-10-16

The Super Squirrels had their second session in the woods this week led by Mr Bates. We looked for minbeasts and collected them up in little containers to look at more closely using a magnifying glass. We also collected treasure from the woodland floor like orange leaves and conker shells and we…

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22 October 2016

14-10-16

What a busy week we have had preparing for our class trips to Sainsburys. We have set up our own shop and we are using real money to buy and sell our fresh fruit and vegetables. We have learning about what '5 a day' means and the difference between foods we should eat all the time to keep us…

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20 October 2016

Week beginning 17th October

This week we had great fun making and eating pizza!!This enabled us to write a more detailed recount of a first hand experience.The children on this occasion were expected to write more extended sentences using the conjunction 'and' while using time connectives more independently.…

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20 October 2016

Weekly Blog

Ash class have been exploring the woodland setting to inspire their spooky stories in English. Working  independantly to assemble their outdoor classroom (the Tepee)  the children were able to plan and share their writing ideas together at the end of the session.

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19 October 2016

Wednesday 19th October

We have nearly reached the half term holiday and are all looking forward to a good rest and having fun with our families. Looking back to the first day of Year 3 in September, it is amazing to see how far the children have progressed in their learning. This week, we have been writing stories which…

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18 October 2016

Autumn 1

Hello!

We have had a very busy half term, so here is an overview of our activities of the last few weeks.........

Literacy

In literacy, we have been looking at newspaper reports. We have been journalists reporting on the murder of Snow White in New York. We have been looking at sentence…

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17 October 2016

14th October 2016

On your marks, get set....BAKE! 

This week, Oak Class has smelled wonderful because we've been baking to raise money for Macmillan. In threes, we designed and baked 12 cupcakes based on a basic recipe before selling them at our parents' evenings to raise money. We made over £73!

There were…

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14 October 2016

14th October - Ash Class

14th October 

This week in Ash class we have been performing poetry in English and had a go at writing our own. We are now able to spot figurative language in different poems and next week we will be creating our own including different forms of imagery. John’s favourite poem was ‘Word Party’ –…

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