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Ho Ho Ho!

We’ve had a very festive week in Duxbury Class: -making Christmas cards, baking biscuits and making festive candle holders from recycled jars. Also, we’ve been writing about the Christmas story and remembering to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops correctly too. …

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Have You Seen Santa And His Elf?

Well, we have. On Friday morning Santa and one of his trusty Elf helpers were spotted peeping through the windows at St. Joseph’s School. What would they have seen through the Duxbury Class window???

Santa will have seen the children’s costumes from their…

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It’s All About The Money, Money, Money!

Do you know how to make a price? We do in Duxbury Class because have been learning to handle money. We can use pennies and other coins to make up our price tag amounts. We also know which coins are worth the most money.

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What is a fraction?

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What is a fraction?

Well over the last week the children have been learning about fractions to try and answer that very question. They have cut up fruit into halves and quarters and also explored how to find a half, quarter of different shapes and even of a bar of chocolate! Using this new…

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What Is Diwali?

Duxbury Class have been using different forms of media to find out the answer to that very question. The children have use the I pads, the big class computer and the netbooks to watch video clips and look at images from the Festival of Light. Here are some of the things we…

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Magic Maths!

During maths this week we have been learning to make repeating patterns. Some children have made patterns with shapes, others with cubes and we have even learned about number patterns like odds and evens! You could try making patterns at home with your children using knives, forks…

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Hairy Maclary Story Time.

This week we enjoyed reading the story Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s Dairy by Lynley Dodd. The children have been learning about rhyming and repeating language in stories and have even created their own actions to the story. Please enjoy the recording of their story…

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Belonging to Gods Family

During our topic in Come and See this week we have been learning about belonging to God’s family. The children have learned about their home families, school family and how to be a part of God’s family through baptism. We visited St Joseph’s Church to learn about and…

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Duxbury Class get Fit!

This week we enjoyed a school visit from Heptathlete Jess Taylor. Jess came to teach us how to keep fit and to tell us about all the events she takes part in. We all tried really hard to do the fitness activities well and we are looking…

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Week 1 In Duxbury Class

Welcome back to school and welcome to Duxbury Class. This week we have had a lovely time doing new activities. We’ve been for a walk in the garden and we know what mint and lavender look and smell like. We’ve enjoyed sorting the numbers on the washing line and role playing in The Number 1 Pet…

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Preparing to go in to year 2

We have been busy preparing to go in to year 2 and have been learning cursive writing, we have practised very hard.

Friday has been out of the classroom day and we have been working with year 6 doing lots of fun activities. We tried assault courses and timed ourselves, some activities were…

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St’ Jo’s Has Got Talent Final on Friday

This week we have been showing our friends how talented we are in Duxbury Class ready for the St’ Jo’s Has Got Talent Final on Friday.

We’ve also enjoyed a morning in Heapy Class with Mr. Hansen, Mrs. Bades and Mrs. Harrison. We really liked it and we are ready to move on and learn new…

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