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We have had a lovely day in Holly Class today, sharing the children's stories and looking at their wonderful costumes!! Well done to everyone who made such a fantastic effort.

All children that entered the book cover competition will find out about the winners in tomorrows celebration…

We have been excitedly getting ready for World Book Day by learning about Julia Donadson and reading lots of her lovely books.  Some of us made gruffalo (apple) crumble with Mrs Johnson.  In the playdough we have models of the gruffalo by adding lots of resources to make his purple prickles and…

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…

Although delighted to be back to our learning, our World War 2 History topic has taken a more sombre turn this week as we learn (in an age-appropriate way) about The Holocaust. We are respectfully learning about the events of The Holocaust and the lessons learned by it. Many of us have gone…

This week we have been learning about Chinese New Year.  We have watched a video clip about Abbie and her brother getting ready to celebrate the festival.

We have done dragon dances in PE and made 3d dragons in the outdoor area. 

We have also learnt the Chinese New Year song, "Kung…

Welcome back everyone we hope you have had a restful and exciting half term holiday!!

We are currently working hard on writing list poems and will be producing our own poems about monsters.The poems are based on ' The Brown Bear 'and we have been generating adjectives with out talk partners to…

This week we have had a shape hunt! We discovered 2D shapes in our outdoor learning area and made some new 3D friends. We met Cindy Cylinder, Sophie Sphere, Colin Cuboid, Conner Cube and Terry Triangular Prism. We have also played shape bingo and Kim's game. Why don't you have a shape hunt at…

After such a busy half-term, we are very ready for a break! We have not slowed the pace of learning in this short term, so hopefully, we'll come back fully recharged and ready to continue our learning journey. 

On Monday, we visited Eden Camp as part of our learning for our World War 2 topic.…

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…

We have been problem-solving in maths and learning about equal fractions. We understand what a numerator and a denominator are and how to simplify a fraction.

In computing, we are learning about spreadsheets. We can now create a basic calculation formula and this week we learned about the SUM…

Half of Elm class have been out with Mr Bates this week trying out our new emergency shelter and the other half will go out next week. We had a great time with our Great Forest Bake-off, even if we did get a little muddy!

In maths, we have been continuing our learning in statistics by…