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It is our Harvest Celebration on Friday this week and we are all getting very excited about it and are busily doing final rehearsals. We have invited our families to join us in the celebrations and have asked them to provide donations of produce. After the celebrations, we will be passing on the…

In English this week, the children have been writing non-chronological reports about themselves! Mrs Baker and I are really enjoying reading them and finding out more about the talents and hobbies of Maple Class. What a talented bunch you are!

In our topic lesson, we looked at old sepia…

This week, 2 of our boys from Elm class, Ewan and John, were chosen to play in a primary school football tournament against other schools in Whitby. We didn't win, but the boys had a great time and displayed great team work and tenacity.

Elm class are now Modal Verb experts! In literacy this…

This week we were all invited to bring in our favourite toy to share with our friends. We stood at the front of the class and told our friends all about what our toy was and why it was special. Our teachers were really pleased with how careful we all were with other children's toys. It's good to…

This week we have been working on familiarising ourselves with magical stories, concentrating on the magical object in the story, the character who is given or finds the magical object and the character who gives someone the magic object.We have then used all these ideas in some freeze-framing…

Where has September gone???

In Maths this week, we have been learning how to do column addition. Great to see the smiles when the children realise that they can add big numbers quickly!

In Science, we have been thinking about how best to keep healthy including having a balanced diet. Next…

We have been very active in Elm class this week! We are playing team sports like football in PE, and contemporary dancing with Hannah on Monday afternoons.

We are preparing for the Christmas season in art by drawing our own Christmas cards for us to order and send to our friends. We are getting…

This week we have been finishing our endings for the 'The Magic Porridge Pot' and are now beginning to work on a plan for our own magical stories.Our county librarian Shelia Sylvester will share magical stories with the children using her animated style and we will read some extracts from classic…

We’ve had such a busy start to the year and our learning is already well underway. Some highlights from our first couple of weeks in Ash class have been our great start to Tables Masters challenges. We are working on our own individual multiplication target and are becoming more skilled…

This week, we have been fortune enough to have taken part in a puppet workshop. We watched a fantastic performance by Dave (and his vast array of puppets) before creating one of our own. We learned some ventriloquist skills before putting them into action.

Have a look at our…

This week, we have been looking at how the digestive system works. We looked at a variety of meals (and snacks) and created our own digestive tracts from sandwich bags, newspaper and tights (with a little help from some sharp knives which acted as teeth!)

As you can imagine, things got…

Elm class are well underway with learning the year 5 curriculum and Mrs Tillson and Mrs Gurney are very impressed with their learning!

In maths, we have been focusing on negative numbers, refreshing our knowledge of Roman Numerals and have spent some time on Sumdog doing challenges and…