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17 December 2019

Making Christmas Trees with Nature

During our walk around the Elf Trail we found lots of lovely twigs, pine cones, leaves and berries.  We used them to create our very own Christmas Tree.  The pine cones looked just like baubles.

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17 December 2019

Our Christmas Trip to the Elf Trail

As we walked around the Elf Trail we had to find all of the Elves and their doors.  We found 10 beautiful little doors hiding along the way.  We knocked on a few of the doors but the Elves were asleep.

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17 December 2019

Our Trip to the Christmas Elf Trail

We had a lovely day yesterday at Wynyard Hall Gardens.  When we arrived we were given maps to show the way to go on the Elf Trail.  

We saw the reindeer first but they weren't very hungry.  Further along the trail we passed Santa's Grotto but unfortunately he wasn't in.  One of his Elves came…

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16 December 2019

Elf Trail!

What a fabulous day we've had taking part in the Wynyard Hall elf trail!

The children and grown ups had lots of fun searching the woodland area to discover the hidden clues in order to find the missing elves and the real reindeer.

Even though it was a very frosty day the children were all…

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13 December 2019

Problem solving in the great outdoors!

I saw some fantastic problem solving today.  Listening to the discussions between the children when they encountered a problem was brilliant.  Fantastic resilience!

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13 December 2019

We love climbing trees!

It is lovely seeing the children having fun in our wildlife area.  Climbing trees is a popular activity!

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13 December 2019

Bug hotels, where they belong

The children took their bug hotels to the wildlife area this afternoon.  I hope the mini beasts will be very happy!

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13 December 2019

Peasant, Princes & Pestilence!

As our topic comes to an end, I have been really impressed with the enthusiasm shown by the children and they amount they have got from it. I would like to thank parents for their support in helping to create some superb homework pieces for the topic too. Check out the collage below for some of…

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13 December 2019

Topic homework!

Thank you to the Year 2s for visiting us this afternoon and looking at our fabulous topic homework. 

It was lovely to see the children talking about the learning that had taken place and sharing their thoughts on their projects.

Sophia said, " It was fantastic! I enjoyed showing other…

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13 December 2019

Superb mathematical understanding....

The children tackled some challenging word problems today in maths. They highlighted the key words, and had to work out whether it was an addition or subtraction calculation. Well done, everyone! 

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13 December 2019

Beautiful work

Amazing grammatical features, beautiful presentation and great learning dispositions are the ingredients to a super piece of writing. Well done, Esther! 

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13 December 2019

Will your child win our amazing Christmas hamper raffle?

Next week, there will be a Christmas raffle in school. Tickets will cost £1 each via ParentPay, so there is no need to send cash into school. This amazing hamper of art and craft materials and toys was kindly donated by the family of ex pupils, Theo and Katie. A lucky child will be taking this…

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