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22 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 8

The highlight of our week was the orienteering trip to Cannock Chase. We worked in groups mixed with children from The Howard and St Mary’s and had a great time. Fantastic behaviour and teamwork was demonstrated by all. Not all groups were successful in finding all of the checkpoints and some of…

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22 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 8

 

We’ve had a lovely week in Class 1 once again! We have continued our short topic of ‘Autumn’ by focusing on the book ‘Room on the Broom’, which the children have loved! We have story mapped and acted it out lots of times this week. The children have also been making broomsticks out of…

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21 October 2021

Autumn 1 - Week 8

It has been a brilliant last week of term in Class 5 and we are now all ready for a week of much needed rest.

This week in maths, we have been investigating common factors and multiples of numbers. In English, we have continued to do work around the poem - The Highwayman. We have all now…

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21 October 2021

Autumn Term 1 - Week 8

We made it Class 3 to the end of our first half term and you have all settled in wonderfully. It has been another busy week full of writing, using charcoal and working as team. In English, we planned our own adventure stories linked to our focus book ‘Leon and the Place Between’. Everyone worked…

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21 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 8

The highlight of our week was our visit to the Wedgewood Museum in Stoke. We had a fantastic time! We were given the opportunity to paint our own pots, which Miss Derry is going to display in the classroom. A tour around the factory, taught us how the pots are made and glazed. We were fascinated…

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15 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 7

 

We have had an exciting week in Class 1!

We have continued our topic of 'Autumn' by focusing on the book 'Pattan's Pumpkin'. This helped us to learn about pumpkins, including their about the lifecycle and their different varieties. As this story is set in the Sahyadri Mountains in…

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15 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 7

In English we have started looking at our new text, a poem, The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We have found some of the old fashioned language tricky but are working hard to understand and interpret the meaning. 
Maths lessons have seen the start of a new block of work, we are now looking at…

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15 October 2021

Autumm Term 1 Week 7

This week in Maths, Year 2 have been learning about counting forwards and backwards in tens, adding and subtracting 10 from a number and using their knowledge of number bonds to 10 to help them work out the number bonds to 100. Ask them to tell you what all the different bonds they have found for…

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15 October 2021

Autumn Week 6 and Week 7

Wow what a busy two weeks we have had in Care Club, the children have took part in many fantastic activities including: Making planet mobiles, colouring astronauts, completing crosswords and wordsearches to celebrate International Space Week, creating lovely cards for our families, making…

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15 October 2021

Autumn 1 - Week 7

We have had a fantastic penultimate week in Class 5!

In maths, we have been working with long division; it is a very tricky process but we are becoming more confident. It would really help us to improve if our parents could try some questions with us at home. In English, we have begun reading…

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15 October 2021

Autumn Term 1 - Week 7

It’s been another exciting week in Class 3. As part of our history topic, we visited the National Memorial Arboretum to look at all of the WW1 memorials. It was a great opportunity to enhance our learning and recap everything we learnt from our history lessons. One of our favourite memorials was…

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8 October 2021

Autumn 1 Week 6

This week we have continued our study of Charles Darwin in English and of Evolution in Science. 
We have looked at inverse operations and estimating in maths as methods for checking our calculations and are nearing the end of our Addition and Subtraction unit of work. 
In PE we have continued…

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