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The children arrived at nursery with a large plant in the middle of carpet, ready for our time to talk session. The children felt, smelt, and talked about the plant. We wondered if anything would grow on it. We found out it was a cheese plant, and this was because of the holes in its leaves. We…

We were so excited to be able to have a whole school assembly today - the first in 18 months! What a great way to end a brilliant week of learning. We just LOVE being together as a family!

Can my children get any busier? We have loved reading our story about Cinnamon and how she was blind and couldn't speak. The children answered some amazing questions and problem solved to help her. We then did super writing for our books on the 'Brave Bear' story. We had to write a letter…

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This week the year 2 children have been using their knowledge of minibeasts to sort and classify them using a branch database.  The children had to think carefully about the features of each minibeast before answering ‘yes’ and ‘no’ questions in order to know how to sort them.

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This week we have been working together to write adjectives and noun phrases to describe Miss Root the Dentist from our class book 'The Demon Dentist'. The children enjoyed describing her appearance, mannerisms and attitude towards the children she met. 

We then wrote our own character…

This week we have been introduced to the evil character of Miss Root in the book, "Demon Dentist" by David Walliams.  The children have worked together to describe Miss Root, using expanded noun phrases.  They have then produced their own wonderful descriptions, using these shared ideas.  Well…

I have been so impressed by the quality of the children's writing this work. In their letters, they have included complex conjunctions, lots of new punctuation and impressive RAG words. They are outstanding!

Topic homework has also started to come in and I have been blown away by the quality of…

Our biology-based topic, Burps, Bottom and Bile, is proving to be a lot of fun while we are learning important skills as scientists.  We have compared the effect of different liquids on eggshells, which we think would be a similar effect on our teeth.

In our first experiment, we were amazed to…

Year 2 have been extremely busy in class this week!  The children started to explore the text 'The Bee who spoke' in Literacy and have used concrete resources to represent numbers to 100 in Numeracy.  We also spent part of our 'Golden Time' meeting our gorgeous school dog…

Children who attend our Gardening Club were very excited this week when they started to find what they'd grown. Well done, children and Miss Tucker. What a super feast you could have with all that you have harvested!