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In topic this week, the children have worked really hard to create a seismometer. A seismometer is an instrument used to record the motion of the ground during an earthquake. The children worked exceptionally well together as a team - superb efforts, everyone! 
 

Take a look at the amazing topic homework shown below. I’ve been blown away by the quality of what’s been produced! Well done, everybody! 

In English, the children have come to the end of their class text, ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ and have been writing a diary entry.  Take a look at this outstanding piece of Year 3 writing below: 
 

We’re completing Flashback 4 starter activities at the beginning of every maths lesson. We’re really enjoying them because they help us retrieve information from what we learned: yesterday, last week, last month and last year! 
 

This week, we have finished reading our story ‘The Firework Maker’s daughter.’ We wrote a diary extract and challenged ourselves to include some tricky RAG words. We were enthused by all the new vocabulary, and were keen to use thesauruses in our writing to keep on discovering new words. We all…

Today, we read a story called 'My side of the scarf' by Carmen Parets Luque.  It is a story all about a friendship between Oliver and Violet.  They are the best of friends and as their friendship grows, so does their scarf.

We love having friends at school and are such kind and caring…

This week in nursery we made play dough and painted our feet to make different coloured footprints. 

The children  could not wait to see their volcano creations erupt.  The models were made from paper, tape and Modroc as part of the class topic ‘Tremors'. We used white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda to produce a chemical reaction. 

They certainly were amazed to see the result!

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This morning, during PE we incorporated some Maths and recapped creating and comparing groups.

We also worked as a team and had a go at creating a new shape.  We are really good at making circles and now we can make a square too.

Year 2 welcomed Derek, a local bee keeper, into their classroom this week to learn more about bees!  We discovered that out of the 20,000 different species of bees found in the world only 6 of them are honey bees!  We were also amazed to learn that in a bees life time, a single bee will only make…

This week has been another fabulous one, with some excellent work, wonderful collaboration and great fun!

This week we have finished reading our story ‘The Firework Maker’ the children enjoyed reading the story and hearing the tale of Lila. The end task was to write a diary extract using…

Today, we combined our Snack Time with Maths.

We talked about the sizes of the different groups of fruits.  We could see that the group of apples had the most and the group of oranges had the least.  We then chose the fruit we would like and accurately counted how many were in that group.  When…