Blog Author: Mrs Gurney

This week the children have continued to familiarise themselves with Numicon in a number of different ways.They built a number track to use for sequencing, used a feely bag to guess the number of the Numicon shape, played Numicon snakes and ladders.All these activities involved the children…

Last Wednesday we had an amazing party after school with our teachers. The party was a reward for winning the race to achieve the most positive behaviour points in the whole school each term. Our housepoints are called 'Stakesby Stars' and each week we try to earn as many as possible for the…

7/10/2016

This week we have welcomed Hollie to our class!

This week we have been creating our class contribution for Harvest assembly. Ellie and Olivia MT read out our introduction and for Ellie it was the first time ever! #scary

We finished our Romulus and Remus stories and next…

Over the past fortnight, we've been working on poetry. We combined our history topic with literacy and wrote some fantastic Black Death poetry using the most impressive figurative language we could. in addition to this, Mrs Mason worked with us to produce some fantastic artwork using just black…

This week Holly class have enjoyed an informative Autumn walk in the brilliant October sunshine to stimulate writing a recount, whilst also observing seasonal changes.Our super photographs recording our walk have enabled the children to sequence their experience orally using new time connectives…

This week we have been busy preparing for our Harvest Festival. The school theme is 'all the colours of the rainbow' and our class is responsible for orange. In class, we have been learning about a special kind of poem called a Cinquain. We have written Cinquain poems about different kinds of…

30th September 

Another busy week in Ash Class! This week we have been continuing our Romulus and Remus writing by creating mock social media page profiles for the main characters. We had fun with these - some are really funny! We went down into the woods on Friday and in groups each re-created…

Our talk homework this week about the ending of 'The Enormous Turnip' has led to some fantastic talk partner work as we shared our ideas.These ideas included the turnip turning into a rocket and blasting to the moon and the old man winning a medal and trophy in a turnip growing competition.

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The weeks are flying past now and our first month in Maple Class is nearly over already! We have begun to research our History topic on 'Ancient Greece' by finding out more about the very first Olympic Games. 

Did you know?

• The first Olympic Games was in 776BC and only lasted for one…

We have had a good week in Ash class. We played football in PE and lots of us scored!

We learnt about the Celts in history and have continued to write about Romulus and Remus this week but focused more on the characters. We learnt how to use apostrophes for possession accurately and have…

Well, it's been three weeks since we started Year 6 and already, everybody is working incredibly hard.

Last week, we took part in the Tag Rugby Festival and we've enjoyed swimming and dance sessions each week too.

In literacy, we have been writing holiday brochures for island destinations we…

This week we have been thinking about the characters in the 'Enormous Turnip' through hot seating.The children took on the role of a character and changed the characters reaction when they were asked to help.Liam took on the role of the mouse and when he was asked to help by the cat he said

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