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29 October 2018

Super SAW week!

Wow, what a busy week! As part of SAW (science, art, writing) week, we concentrated our work on wheat. We began the week creating our own poems about wheat.  We then found out about the ‘Grain Chain’ and worked together to produce collages depicting each stage.  In addition, we made soda bread…

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29 October 2018

Natural art

During Golden time, the children created some fantastic pictures using materials they gathered from around the school site. What imaginations!

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29 October 2018

Friendly competition!

We enjoyed taking part in an inter-school football competition.  There was great teamwork and everyone really entered into the spirit of the event.  Well done Discovery (yellow team) for being overall winners!

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16 October 2018

Restart the Heart!

What a fantastic day!

The children had a brilliant time learning CPR and how to use a defibrillator.

Thank you to the amazing grown-ups who showed us what to do!

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12 October 2018

Beautiful work!

I was really impressed this week with the pride that the children show in their work.  Whether it is Literacy, Maths, Science or Topic, the children work hard to produce ‘beautiful work’.

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11 October 2018

“Best day ever!”

Today we went to the Ryedale Folk Museum for an evacuee day.  A great time was had by all!  The children found out about rationing and were able to sample some wartime cooking. They also went into the village shop with their ration books and, with an old penny, bought their sweet ration for the…

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5 October 2018

Whatever the weather!

Fun and games in the wildlife area during Golden time!  As it was raining, we constructed a huge shelter that we could all get under.  We also had a go at making a trail and then we wondered if our friends could follow it.

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5 October 2018

Lots of learning!

This week in Literacy, the children have been writing evacuee stories.  We had some evacuees having a wonderful time and others, not so wonderful (like many real-life experiences).

In Maths, we have been tackling column addition and subtraction.

In Science, we have been looking at the…

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28 September 2018

Wonderful Week!

I can’t believe we are at the end of another week!

This week in Literacy, we have been looking at the correct use of inverted commas.  We now know how to use them accurately, as well as being able to ensure we have included action within the speech.  We also looked at words better than ‘said’…

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28 September 2018

Teamwork!

We had another fantastic time during Golden time.  This time we were building our own shelters.  We had mixed successes but everyone had fun!!

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27 September 2018

Blitz!

Have a look at some of our completed Blitz pictures.  The vivid oil pastel colours really stand out, very effective!

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22 September 2018

Wonderful Work!

The children have had another busy week.  In Literacy, they have been writing a letter home as if they were the evacuee, Lenny, from our text ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’.

In Maths we are continuing our work on place value and Alex had a go at being me! I wonder if I should be worried!

As part…

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