Maple Class

This week we have been completing our Greek myths. We are very proud of them and are hoping to see some of them up on our writing wall. In Maths, we have been converting analogue time into digital this week and solving time problems. Some of the problems are really making us think! In Geography,…

This week we are looking forward to World Book Day which we will be celebrating in school on Thursday. We have been busy designing our own comic strips in school. In our comprehension lesson, we read about the origins of World Book Day and why it is important. We were shocked to discover that in…

In a change to our usual style of blog, this week we thought that we would share some ideas to keep the children entertained over half term with you.

Supporting Your Child At Home….In The Half Term Holiday!

The best way to support your child over the holiday is to spend as much quality time…

In Literacy this week, we have begun to read ancient Greek myths and legends. The stories are very entertaining, many containing tales of gods and godesses not to mention the terrifying monsters! Mrs Leather read a myth called 'The Sun Chariot' which tells the story of Helios who had the important…

Happy New Year! The children have settled back quickly into the school routine after an exciting Christmas holiday at home with their families.In class, we have been writing a recount of our Christmas activities.For the next few weeks, we will be taking part in Forest Schools with Mrs Mason.…

What a fun-filled time we have been having at school! Over the last few days, we have watched the Key Stage One and Early Years Christmas performances, laughed our socks off at the Pantomime and taken part in the Christmas Carol concert at our local church. We were given a wonderful Christmas…

We are learning about the Nativity in class this week. Our teachers are making it fun and interesting by allowing us to explore the story in lots of different ways. For example, we have worked with our friends, made story maps, watched cartoons and even made phonecalls to tell the news. I wonder…

Although we are still working our socks off, we have begun to make preparations for Christmas! In Hymn Singing, we are learning Christmas songs and carols. Some of them are traditional Christmas carols, some old favourites and some different and new. We are looking forward to performing them to…

Many of the children joined Mrs Leather and Mrs Nattriss in the Whitby Lantern Parade on Friday night. It was a magical night seeing all those lanterns twinkling in the dark

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In class this week we have been making up magical chants to use with the magic potion recipes we made earlier this half term. Magical chants are sometimes called spells, they usually rhyme and are only about four or five lines long. You may think that it is easy to write a good spell but it isn't…

In our Geography lesson this week, we began to write our own tourist guides for Whitby. When we are happy with them, we are going to use the computers to produce the guides inserting real photographs of Whitby.

We have been solving some tricky problems in Maths this week. We have had to spend…

We have had a great time this week writing creepy recipes for magic potions. I wonder if any of them will really work?! Reading 'George's Marvellous Medicine' by Roald Dahl gave us the inspiration for this writing task along with Halloween and our school Halloween Disco this week.  On Monday we…