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Have you seen the state of our outdoor quad area next to the lower hall? It’s awful! The old rubber play surface is in need of replacing and the walls and woodwork are in desperate need of a lick of paint.

For many months, I have dreamed that this area could be used by Year One children during…

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…

This week in Literacy, we’ve taken on the role of an author and have written our own evacuee stories.  Take a look at the example below, I wonder what grammatical features you can spot?

Becoming authors!

The children have been working incredibly hard this work in producing beautiful work.

They have been focusing on their steps to success and the quality of their handwriting – I have been very impressed!

Today, we took maths outdoors whilst learning how to use a number line. The children had to draw their own number line using chalk, making sure all the numbers were in the correct order and formed correctly. Once our number lines were complete, we used them to count forwards and backwards.

The…

Today, we had lots of fun working in small groups using ‘Strip design’ to retell the story of Grace Darling.

The children had to take pictures using the iPad, put the pictures in the correct order and then add some writing to accompany the picture.

They all worked really hard to produce some…

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’…

This afternoon the children were given a thought provoking question- What makes a wonderful world?

They had a chance to discuss with their learning partners and think about what makes their world so wonderful.

The children came up with some fantastic ideas…

Isobel said, “Caring for…

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

First, we visited the RNLI lifeboat house where we watched a video of a rescue. We saw the uniforms and life jackets and looked at the offshore lifeboat. Then, we walked to the pier for lunch.  After that, we visited the lighthouse before going to the RNLI museum.

This week in Literacy, we’ve been learning how to use inverted commas accurately. We first up-leveled part of our class text, ‘The Lion and the Unicorn’ by using synonyms for said and interesting adverbs, and then progressed onto using story cards to practise using speech marks correctly. We used…

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