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Date: 7th Jun 2022 @ 10:09pm
This week has been Curriculum Week and our theme was The Queen's Jubilee. The week started with an assembly from Mr Padley all about the Queen and her jubilee. Then the children have researched all about the queen and her family tree, made crowns for our royal tea party and created some amazing art work. There's been lots of questions asked, many new facts learned and lots of fun being creative. Well done Class 8!
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Year 5 meet the author Frank Cottrell-Boyce
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 1:39pm
Today, Year 5 paid a visit to Northmoor Academy where we were lucky enough to meet the much loved children’s author Frank Cottrell-Boyce. The children where fascinated by the stories he had to tell and were bursting to ask questions about his life experiences and the books that he has written. All the children have been presented with one of his books and we have set them the challenge of reading it over the half term break. Happy reading Year 5!
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 1:11pm
This week in Class 3 we have been reading a book called ‘The Queen’s knickers.’ In the story the Queen lost her knickers, so the children have designed their very own knickers for the Queen, writing her a letter all about their amazing designs...
As part of our maths learning class 3 have also been re-capping our knowledge of time, addition and subtraction. The children worked together in pairs to solve a range of different addition and subtraction questions.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 7:32pm
This week we ended our Computing and Topic learning. In Topic we have been learning about volcanoes and have been fascinated by the things we have learnt. Our research skills have developed so well as we discovered new and interesting facts. In Computing we have been learning how to create a Power Point Presentation. We linked the two to create a PPT about Volcanoes. We visited Year 4 to buddy up and show them what we have been doing. They were so complimentary about our learning and enjoyed seeing what we had done as it reminded them of when they did it last year.
Date: 25th May 2022 @ 2:51pm
Today we completed our volcano artwork!
The children have loved creating their own collage volcano!
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 4:40pm
A few weeks ago children from across school took part in a writing competition.
Many children had the opportuinity for their writing to be published in a book.
These two superstars have now bought a copy of the book where their own writing has been published.
I am so proud of them and all of the other children who entered the competition!
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 4:37pm
This week Class 7 have started their art work.
This half term we have been learning about volcanoes in English and Topic and to finish the half term we have decided to create pictures of volcanoes through collage.
The children have begun their artwork this afternoon and have had lots of fun.
We cannot wait to see the finished piece!
Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 12:28pm
The children have been developing their magic skills. We made wands like the witch and created bubbling potions.
The children were very interested in what happens when certain ingredients are mixed together.
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 8:01pm
This week as part of our art learning class 3 have been creating some beautiful cityscapes of London inspired by the artist Paul Klee. We linked our art learning to our topic learning, looking at Great Britain. The children added different shapes to their cityscape of London and coloured them in using brightly coloured oil pastels. Take a look at some of our finished pieces below...
Date: 20th May 2022 @ 11:54am
This week in class, the children have been learning about Haunted houses.
They have focused on the language and words that can be used to describe a haunted house and used this language to write sentences.
The children also used 2Simple to draw their own house and followed instructions in art to draw one using pencils.
Date: 18th May 2022 @ 10:44pm
Our comprehension this week was a playscript called Rama and Sita. The children enjoyed reading and discussing the play before acting it out with great interest and creativity. After acting out the play the children answered questions about the text like what is different about this text to what we normally read? Can you think of descriptive words to describe the characters? The children had to skim and scan for answers and use deduction to work out answers.
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Date: 13th May 2022 @ 3:00pm
Class 8 had a fantastic Eid party to end a wonderful week of learning. The morning was spent writing a beautiful story of love based on Disney's short film Lava - every child excelled in this! The afternoon was spent having extra long golden time followed by dancing and games. 
Date: 13th May 2022 @ 11:02am
This week Year 5 have been learning how to divide by a 2-digit number in maths. The children have learnt how to build 2 digit multiple lists in order to complete the short division method accurately. They have been brilliant when exhcnaging within the method also.
Date: 13th May 2022 @ 7:51am
This week in Class 5 we have been exploring the book Lizzie and the Birds. We started the week by reading the text and considering if we would like to live in a house filled with birds or if it would be too noisy for us. On Tuesday, we had a fantastic drama lesson where we worked in pairs to become one of the birds from our text. We had so much fun becoming ghost bird, super bird, rainbow bird and crow!
Date: 12th May 2022 @ 4:53pm
This week we have been looking at 'Room on the Broom' by Julia Donaldson.
The children had a visit from the witch and have been learning all about the characters in the story.
In ICT the children have been using 2Simple to draw a picture from the story. They have been developing their turn taking and matching skills in a bingo game.
Our germs experiment in Class 3
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 4:45pm
This week in Class 3 as part of our PSHE learning we have been exploring the topic of 'germs.' As a class we thought about what germs are and what we can do to stop them spreading and making us poorly.
We took part in a whole class experiment to highlight the importance of washing our hands.
Three children were chosen and each put their hands in a different coloured glitter to represent three different types of germs.
The children then shook hands with each other and noticed that they now had lots of different types of germs on their hands when 'playing' with other children.
After that we had a go at washing our hands with and without soap. We found that the germs could only be washed off properly if the children used hot water and soap.
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 11:51am
Year 5 have written some excellent diary entries as Mr Wolf from Little Red Riding Hood. They have realy enjoyed this. The children included many features of writing, such as fronted adverbials, relative clauses, parenthesis, rehtorical questions, emotive langage and much more. The children will continue to use this story as a hook next week but we will be writing a newspaper report to prove the wolf's innocence - how interesting!
Reception Weekly Blog WB 2/5/2022
Date: 6th May 2022 @ 8:05am
This week in Reception we have been doing lots of fantastic learning linked to the book The Tiny Seed. We have listened to the story of how a tiny seed travelled through the air over lots of different landscapes , facing many dangers, until finally it grows into an enormous plant. We did some amazing drama making landscapes with our bodies and created our own class book of the story for our reading area.
We have also planted sedds of our own and can't wait for our cress heads to start to sprout!
In Maths we have been continuing our learning about numbers between 10 and 20. The cheeky kangaroo has been back to make us think hard about what these bigger numbers look like!
Learning in Class 8 6th May 2022
Date: 4th May 2022 @ 10:22pm
Class 8 are continuing their learning on Volcanoes and in English this week they are writing songs about how one volcano feels, hopes and dreams. The children watched the short clip called LAVA and recorded the feelings of the volcano and then they will start to write and perform their song. The children are really enjoying their task and we are very excited to see the outcomes.
Reception Weekly Blog WB 25/4/2022
Date: 29th Apr 2022 @ 8:49am
This week in Reception we have started to do lots of great learning about our new topic Get Outdoors!
We have been reading the story of Jack and the Beanstalk - and planting beanstalks of our own - and writing our own books using speech bubbles to tell the story.
The children have been getting VERY excited about Eid and we have talked about the traditions they have when they celebrate at home. They enjoyed making cards and sharing their hopes for the festivities.
In Maths we have been extending our learning to numbers up to 20 by looking at them on Ten Frames and seeing that they are one full frame and some more. Could you help your child by looking for numbers up to 20 in the environment and sharing them with your child so that they can recognise them easily?
Date: 28th Apr 2022 @ 12:42pm
This week we started our new topic about volcanoes. Despite being upset that our learning about Ancient Egypt had come to an end we were EXPLODING with excitement about our new topic. We started the week by making a volcano. We then wrote instructions for someone else to follow if they wanted to do the same. We labelled a volcano and learnt what was involved in the process of a volcanic eruption. We can't wait to see what else we will find out.
Date: 26th Apr 2022 @ 3:04pm
This week, in class 14, we have been reading a story titled- The colour of home. Our writing journey is all about a retell. The children used drama to bring the story to life and used freeze frames.
In Maths, we have been revising all area of Maths and have been ensuring that we know our times tables. We have been using Sumdog to develop our fluency and confidence.
Date: 8th Apr 2022 @ 8:13am
The children have loved our topic this term. They have learnt all about 'Space'.
During Literacy the children have looked at pobble pictures which generate lots of talk for writing.
The children then use Inprint to read space words and describe the pobble pictures.
They then write about the pictures using their phonic knowledge.
The children then do their own drawings related to the picture - solar systems, galazy, space, space travel etc.
During topic learning the children have looked at lots of different aspects related to space - space travel to different planets, who goes to space? why do they go to space?
The children have thoroughly enjoyed the topic and made an assembly all about it.
Please ask them about it.
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 5:03pm
This week, Year 5 has been writing Ramadan Poems. At the beginning of the week, we read a poem and as a group we performed it. In order to make our poems sound more interesting to listen to, we made sure to use our facial expressions, gestures and remembered to change the tone of our voices.
We then explored the features of a poem and learnt that a good poem should include things such as rhyme, interesting adjectives, powerful verbs, alliteration, onomatopoeia and even a simile or two.
We then went onto plan and write our own poems about Ramadan, which we will be using later on to make Eid cards. Well done Year 5!
Date: 7th Apr 2022 @ 12:44pm
Class 8 have done so much great learning that we couldn't decide what to show! We decided to show our brilliant big writes and our amazing art work.
Our big writes were adventure stories based on Charlie Stinky Socks. We added new parts to the adventure in our handmade journals.
In art we were using a printing technique. We made a design based on our Egyptian learning and then created a print. We have enjoyed our learning so much!
