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17 May 2019

Zumba…phew!

This afternoon, we enjoyed a very energetic Zumba session…phew!

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17 May 2019

Who have we got here then?

This week, the children wrote their own non-chronological reports based on an ‘imaginary’ alien.  The children did a fantastic job, with a little help from Mr Murton and his amazing ideas and art work.

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17 May 2019

Terrific Tiles!

This week, we wanted to experiment with clay to see what patterns and effects we could create.  We will now use what we have found to help us with our next clay project…

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11 May 2019

Mud Monsters!

The children really got their hands dirty during Goldentime.  As you can see, they had great fun making mud monsters!

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9 May 2019

Which school did you go to?

Mr and Mrs Robson came in to speak to us today and it was fascinating!  Mr Robson grew up in the village and he told us that he attended the British School (now the Discovery Centre) when he was 5 years old.  He shared some of his memories with us and some of his work from 1948.  He went on to…

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9 May 2019

Cosmic!

The children had a great time this week, creating movie trailers for the story we are reading – Cosmic!

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3 May 2019

Super Schools!

On Thursday, we walked round our village finding out about Great Ayton schools.  We found the site of the old Edward Kitching School, then we walked down to Marwood and found out a little bit about its history – a big thank you to Ian Pearce and the Great Ayton History Society.  After that, we…

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26 April 2019

What a BIG character!

This week, we have started work around our text, ‘Cosmic – it’s one giant leap for all boy-kind’.  The children are really enjoying the story and they have already written character profiles about the main character, Liam.

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26 April 2019

Tarps and Teamwork!

This week, we got the tarps out to see if we could make shelters.  There was some great teamwork!  Some of the children also chose to do a bit of litter picking to help tidy up the school field, fantastic job!  Thank you also to RAFT, who have bought us some squirrel-proof bird feeders.  We think…

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24 April 2019

Can you hear me?

This week, in Science, we looked at how sound travels. We went outside to investigate with ‘telephone cups’.  We found out that when you speak into the cup, the back of the cup vibrates. The vibration extends into the string and the sound waves (or vibrations) move through the string. It worked…

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5 April 2019

Enjoying the sunshine!

What a lovely way to end our term.  The children made shelters and  bird feeders, and toasted and enjoyed hot cross buns!

Happy Easter everyone!

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3 April 2019

Where in the World? – Wow!

On Tuesday, The children had the opportunity to show each other their topic homework.  As ever, the amount of thought and effort which was put in, was excellent!

See what you think…

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