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Can You Make A Book Using The I-Pad?

Take a look at our books about Katie Morag, which we made using the Book Creator app on the i-pads. We’ve learnt so many skills! We can take photos (safely and with permission), we know how to import the photos, add text and draw using a drawing…

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Can You Make A Compass?

This week we have been learning about position and direction because we need to know about North, East, South and West then we can use maps. We have looked at a map of an island as well as the local area and we have used digi maps to find our locality. So that we know…

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Welcome back to school after the Easter holiday.

Who has been visiting us this week?

The Chorley Schools Partnership has been into school to see how well we can run and throw. We have entered a competition with other skills in order to show how skilful we are. All the children tried very…

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‘Fee Fi Fo Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!’

We couldn’t believe it in Duxbury Class when Mrs Cordingley received an e mail to say that Jack and the Giant had been spotted in Chorley! So we went outside to take a look and we did find some evidence and clues to suggest that this in…

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World Book Day

Well done Duxbury Class readers for making a fantastic effort to dress up as your favourite characters. See if you can tell who we all are.

As a follow up to our Feast on Friday we have been writing recounts to explain what we did on our shopping trip to Aldi as well as what…

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Duxbury Class Feast

Wow! What an amazing day we had on Friday! We looked fabulous, dressed as knights, princes and princesses. We even had Robin Hood who came to visit us. During the feast we enjoyed looking at photos of all the wonderful learning that has been taking place during this…

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The Wednesday Feast Shop!

Well done to the children in Duxbury Class for making a shopping list fit for a feast! The children did a wonderful job shopping for the feast at our local ALDI store. Special thanks to ALDI staff for accommodating us and to the shoppers we met on the day. We saw…

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Look how scientific we have been in Duxbury Class.

Look how scientific we have been in Duxbury Class. We have investigated which material would make the best umbrella for Mike The Knight and we tested the following materials; plastic, fabric, paper towel and cardboard. We recorded each time we tested a different material and overall we decided…

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You Won’t Believe Our PE Skills!

Do You Know What 2 x 6 is?

We do, because we know we can make an array with the pinboards! Check out our photos.

You Won’t Believe Our PE Skills!

Look how good we are at rolling a ball to our partners, we can even roll the ball through the cones and trick our partners. Well…

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Performing Winter Poems

Well, what a creative week we have had and what a lot of budding young poets we have in Duxbury Class.

This week we have been learning to perform winter poems through actions and dance and have had to work as part of a team to plan actions for each poem.

We hope…

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Do You Know Your Shapes?

Well, in Duxbury Class we do!

We know all about 2d and 3d shapes and their properties. This week we have even been on a 3D shape treasure hunt around the school and the photographs can be found on our blog. Enjoy listening to Nadia and Kasey as they visualise,…

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Happy New Year Everyone!

Welcome back to Duxbury Class where we are learning to ‘Be A Knight and Do It Right!’ in Duxbury Class Castle.

Do you know that we have been finding out about where the Queen lives along with discovering what life was like long ago in a castle?

This week we have…

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