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29 January 2021

Come to the circus!

This week the children have been designing advertising posters inspired by our book 'Leon and the place between.' I'm particularly impressed by their IT presentation skills! Keep up the fabulous work children! 

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28 January 2021

Space Station Role Play

As part of our topic 'What happens when I am asleep' the children chose to have a Space Station rle play area.

We decorated the outside using tin foil to make it all shiny.

We have lots of different activities to do when we are in the Space Station.  We can put the moons into order of size,…

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27 January 2021

Space Rockets, Binoculars & Telescopes

Today we have been busy making Space Rockets in Nursery.

We visited Reception to have a go at making telescopes and binoculars.  When we had finished we went outside to see what we could see.

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26 January 2021

Dream Catchers

As part of our topic 'What happens when I fall asleep' we have been learning all about Dream Catchers.

Today we have been making our very own Dream Catchers.  I have been amazed by the quality of the Dream Catchers that have been made by the children who are working from home.

Well Done…

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25 January 2021

Year 1 goes bananas

Today, year one having been making banana cakes in the classroom.

 

Everyone took turns in measuring and mixing the ingredients together.


 

We even did some maths, while we made our cakes and practised our number bonds to 10.

When they were ready, we enjoyed a delicious cake while…

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25 January 2021

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky

 

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on 4th December 1866

 

While travelling, studying and painting, Kandinsky began to develop ideas about the ways in which music and painting were related. He, and many other artists, thought that the colours and shapes…

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25 January 2021

Secondary Colours

Secondary colours

Secondary colours are made by mixing equal amounts of primary colours together:

· Blue and red mixed together make purple

· Yellow and red mixed together make orange

· Blue and yellow mixed together make green

Purple, orange and green are secondary colours. On the…

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23 January 2021

Maya Civilization

We have been finding out all about the interesting history of the Maya Civilization this week. We have created timelines and also used images for each fact to help us remember the details. We also looked at Mayan writing and recreated Mayan glyphs using a range of materials - both at home and at…

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23 January 2021

Finding Treasure!

After reading some more of our class novel, we imagined we were the main character Stanley. After digging our Hole (AGAIN), we were amazed to find some kind of treasure down there...... this is how we reacted to the find through role play, freeze frames and writing. Some great work was produced…

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23 January 2021

WB 18-01-21

What another busy week we’ve had!

In PSHE, we thought about which qualities make a good friend.

In Maths, we continued our work on division.  We shared objects and amounts into groups of 2, 5 and 10, and also learned about odd and even numbers.

In Computing, we used the app, ‘Scratch’.…

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22 January 2021

More super work from Year 1

Another fantastic week of work from Year 1.  We have been busy learning both at home and in the classroom.  Children at home have sent in some fantastic work, which is wonderful to see.

 

We are continuing our topic of superheroes and this week had a visit via video from a real life…

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22 January 2021

Marvellous Maya!

This week, we have been looking at the Maya and what happened during the Maya period. The children created timelines and used pictures in order to help them remember key dates and events. They then looked at Maya writing and recreated Maya glyphs using various media. This was great work both at…

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