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Mrs Maud and myself must say a huge well done to all of Holly class on their interest, enthusiasm and behavior when visiting the library this week.  We looked at signs of spring on our walk there, and were also lucky enough to see a new tree sculpture being created in Pannett Park.  When we…

Acorn class won the Termly Treat this half term.

We brought in our bikes and scooters from home and had great fun on the MUGA.

Even the teachers joined in!!

We then had snacks and a movie.

A big thank you to FOSS for providing the snacks

Our topic this half term is Space. We have looked at stars and this week we have been looking at planets. Can you name all of the planets in the Solar System?  

We have made rocket ships, planets, ordered stars in size order and many other things. 

We had lots of fun on World Book day. Our…

Welcome back everyone! We hope you all had a fun filled week off and have returned ready for this next half term.  

We have started to read our new class book...but have not yet shared with the children what it is called! We have had some fabulous discussion work from the illustrations in the…

This week in English we have continued with our story of Rose Blanche, we have considered how she may have felt coming across a concentration camp and the choices she faced in whether to help the children in the camp. 

Many members of our class took part in a two day Bike Ability course. I am…

Last week we looked at Nocturnal animals. We discovered which animals sleep in the day and come out at night.  We also found out interesting facts about these animals.

We were very lucky to have a visit from Alex Farmer from Whitby Wildlife Sanctuary, to talk to us about the nocturnal animals…

We have had another busy week! Our English work continues to focus on Rose Blanche and her life as a young girl living in Germany during WW2.

In science we started to design our own marvelous machines which would make some aspect of life easier, we concentrated on pulleys, gears and…

This week we had a very special visit from Mrs Wood's Guinea Pigs, Daffodil and Chewy. They came to help us learn about adjectives. We thought of lots of new and exciting words to describe them especially Chewy who is more mischievous than the timid Daffodil! Please ask your child about the…

This week we have had great fun learning all about Chinese New Year.  We heard the story about the animals having a race, and discovered that this year is the Year of the Pig. 

We made lots of things in the Rainbow room........   lanterns,  dragon puppets and Chinese writing.  We even had…

Friday 8th February 

This week in Elm class we have been learning about Winston Churchill in history. We have learned facts about him and how he became Prime Minister. For example, we learnt that he got his first political job in 1900.

In science we have been learning about the force,…

in maths this week we have been learning  fractions, some of us found this tricky. We are also writing up some world war 2 short stories about a child's life. In science we are learning about forces this week we have focused on water resistance and how water effects objects when dropped in a fish…

This week we are looking at the stories in the  Funny Bones series, by Janet and Allen Ahlberg.

We are listening to the various stories, and have even been putting actions to parts of the stories.

In Numeracy we have been working on adding and subtracting.

In Literacy we have been using…