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Year 6 have been working incredibly hard lately. We've been writing our own information texts about a variety of subjects including: scootering, football, Little Mix, elephants, Paris, New York, Taylor Swift and many more. These should all be finished next week so check back to see the final…

We are really excited that we are having some visitors to teach us next week. Some local police officers are coming to our class to teach us all about how they help people. 

Super Squirrels have already been doing some learning about the police so that we have a good idea what they are talking…

A successful week for some of the children in Elm class this week. They entered into an athletics competition at the leisure centre with some children from year 6, against 8 primaries from the area and they won! With 220 points, they came back to school beaming. Well done to all of you!

We have…

This week we have problem solving using 3D shapes.Using a selection of pyramids, cones, cubes, cylinders and spheres the children attempted to build the tallest tower they could.After experimenting in groups they considered the questions: 

Which shapes are best to build with?

Which shapes…

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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We have been working on anti-bullying strategies using real-life senarios and empowering ourselves against bullies as part of anti-bullying week.

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In maths, using reasoning and problem-solving, we have been learning how to multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1000.

In…

We know how important it is for children to talk about the things that they have seen and done to help with their early speaking and listening skills. That's why this week we've given lots of time and attention to sharing what we saw at the museum on our trip last week, and also when the firemen…

We are continuing to work on the properties of shape this week in maths and are striving  hard to name and identify 3D shapes in the environment.We sorted the objects the children brought in from home into their relevant shapes.

In literacy this week we have been writing a…

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…

Another busy couple of weeks in Ash class :) 

We have been busy writing stories based on the traditional tale of 'Little Red Riding Hood' - we are adding a twist to the classic and writing a futuristic version with our main character- a heroic girl named 'Chaperon Rouge'. Check in with us…

What a busy, but wonderful week we have had. We have started learning about people who help us and have been learning all about the fire service. We have look at photographs of fire engines and the uniforms and equipment the fire fighters use. We have learnt a song called '5 Little Firemen…

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…