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All of Elm class are Star of the Week this week! When asked, Louise from the Konflux theatre that came in to work with Elm and produce the Play in a Day, said she couldn't possibly choose anyone that had stood out because all the children were stars! Well done Elm class! A video of our play is…

This week we have been looking at the properties of 2D shapes.We have discussed and reasoned about similarities and differences between shapes.For example:

What is the same about a rectangle and square? What is different?

Look at the circle, square and triangle which is the odd one out?…

This week, we’ve been getting into the spooky spirit by creating potions in our woodland area. After we’d made them, we wrote instructions on how to recreate it at home - they weren’t for the faint-hearted though!

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…

We have come back to school this week, ready and raring to go! The children are still very engaged and focused on their literacy work with the Alma story. This week's focus has been persuasive writing, so the children have been estate agents trying to sell the shop in the story! They have been…

This week in science we have been testing the properties of different materials to see if they bend and discussing why this is necessary for their particular use.The items included a straw, a table, a spoon, a tape measure and an elastic band.We tested each item and recorded our results in a…

This week has been all about Macmillan. Oak Class pupils worked in groups to design a batch of cupcakes based on a very basic recipe, which had to be adapted. Once we’d got the design sorted - and the sketches and descriptive paragraphs, we set to work.

Our finished cakes were then…

It's Friday!

We've still been working very hard as this half-term comes to a close.

In Literacy, we have been working with a video from The Literacy Shed called Alma. 

"Alma is a little girl who ventures into town in the snow. She is drawn to a shop window by a familiar looking doll.…

Forest schools with Mrs Mason has focused on the story of ' Stick Man ' by Julia Donaldson. The children listened to the story in the woods and collected sticks and autumn leaves in order to make their own stick man.They lashed the sticks together using elastic bands which is the first stage of…

We have been making up our own version of 'We're going on a bear hunt this week' and the children have had excellent ideas like a 'rain storm....a soggy, wet rain storm' and 'a hill......a  big, tall hill!'

We have enjoyed using the instruments to sing songs that are lod and quiet this week and…

This week, in Elm class, we have been practising our performing arts! If you attended either of our Harvest Festivals, you would have seen some wonderful speaking and acting during our part and, as part of our metacognition work, we have been learning how to juggle! Some of us are finding it…

This week we have been listening to the story 'We're going on a bear hunt'. We used musical instruments to make the sounds in the book and we used the classroom to hunt around for the bear!

Why not have a look at Michael Rosen reading his story on youtube? We think your children would love to…