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Stepping Into Dragon’s Den!
This week in year 6, we had some special visitors from Young Enterprise. We looked at what a business did and some of the roles and decisions involved. Then, we had to come up with some cunning ideas to earn cash fast. We thought of some great products such as:
Fashionable jewellery
Homemade…
Category: Yarrow Class Blog
How animals and their habitats vary across Africa…
This week we are looking at how animals and their habitats vary across Africa.
We have looked at the work of naturalists and animal behaviourists, whilst carrying out our own studies of plants, insects and amphibians in the ‘Garden of Eden’.
We will be comparing our findings with plants,…
Category: Rivington Class Blog
Africa…
This week we have been getting ready for our Africa topic. We have begun by reading the story ‘We’re going on a Lion hunt’ everyone has really enjoyed reading the story and joining in with the parts that are familiar to them. Therefore to fit in with our story and topic we have turned our role…
Category: Astley Class Blog
A Wonderful Week-End!
This week-end 20 of members of our Birkacre Class celebrated their Sacrament of First Holy communion and Confirmation. They all looked very smart but most importantly they all behaved with real reverence and devotion. The School Choir also attended and sang beautifully.
The children had a…
Category: Birkacre Class Blog
What a busy week we have had in Duxbury class…
What a busy week we have had in Duxbury class.
This week in Literacy we have been looking at Handa’s surprise. We have tried some delicious fruit, some of us liked the sweet mango but some us really didn’t like the papaya!
We have started our new topic of Africa with a really exciting…
Category: Duxbury Class Blog
Watch out Dragons Den …
We have made some cracking contraptions to finish our topic off. We wrote adverts, designed and made our own inventions. Watch out Dragons Den we are coming for you!!!! We have loved our famous inventors topic and thanks to all the parents/carers who helped the children throughout the topic…
Category: Heapey Class Blog
This week the children have studied the varied landscapes and climates of the Africa…
This week the children have studied the varied landscapes and climates of the African continent, from Sahara desert and savannahs in the North, rainforests conditions on the equator and the arid lands of the south.
In maths the children have been working on time problems and in literacy, they…
Category: Rivington Class Blog
The Great Escape … more blogs to follow
Category: Limbrick Class Blog
Poetry in our literacy
This week in Duxbury class we have been looking at poetry in our literacy lessons. We have worked hard and made our own acrostic poems about the seaside.
On Friday during maths we had a challenge morning where we did lots of different activities. We looked at 2D shapes and we made them with…
Category: Duxbury Class Blog
It’s a bugs life…
What a truly wonderful time we have had in Astley Class this week! We have been treated to lots of exciting things and we are feeling very lucky! Firstly, this week we had the pleasure of welcoming John and Tracey (The Bug people) into to our classroom and they didn’t come alone, they brought…
Category: Astley Class Blog
Flutter, flutter butterfly…
What an exciting week we’ve had in Astley Class. We have had the pleasure of watching our tiny baby caterpillars grow fatter and fatter, build a cocoon then burst out as beautiful butterflies. On Friday we took our butterflies down to the garden of EDEN to release them into the wild, one of them…
Category: Astley Class Blog
Carrying on with our map work in our topic lessons
Carrying on with our map work in our topic lessons we have been having a go at a basic version of orienteering. We have been able to use a map to find different points on the playground. What made it difficult was Mrs Crowther asked us to add up numbers from each of those points. Some of us really…
Category: Limbrick Class Blog
