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19 May 2015

Birkacre Measure Up!

This week Birkacre Class have undertaken a number of written and practical investigations for measuring in cm and mm, weighing in g and kg and measuring in l and ml.  Well done Birkacre for measuring accurately and converting your units of measure.

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19 May 2015

Birkacre Builders!

As part of our rainforests topic we visited the Garden of Eden and built dens or shelters using man-made and natural materials. The children worked in teams communicating ideas and helping each other. The following day the children spent some time in their dens before we celebrated the end of our…

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11 May 2015

The Island Of Struay

This week Duxbury Class received a letter from Katie Morag, inviting the class to visit The Island of Struay.  So we went to visit and we looked at all the lovely places including the beach, the Post Office and the Café.  We talked about why it would be fun for other people to go to the Island and…

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11 May 2015

Phonics and graphs

This week we have been learning to use our phonics and we have learnt to read split digraph a-e.  We made a graph to show our favourite fruits.  It was lots of fun.

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28 April 2015

Where Are We?

This week we have been trying to find out where we are!  We’ve looked at maps and globes, Google earth and we know where lots of places are.  We know where the United Kingdom is on the world map and on the globe.  On Thursday we learnt about compass directions and we made our own compass so that…

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28 April 2015

Julia Donaldson…

During literacy we have been looking at stories by Julia Donaldson. One of our favourite stories was The Smartest Giant in Town. We wrote thank you letters to George for all his kind deeds. Our letters are fantastic if we do say so ourselves. Keep your eyes peeled for our own version of Room on a…

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28 April 2015

Cracking invention Gromit!

Cracking invention Gromit! Our topic of Cracking Inventions topic has got off to a great start with the fantastic home work we have received. We have also answered the learning challenge 1 Would we recognise a famous inventor in the street? We drew what we thought an inventor looked like as well…

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28 April 2015

Caterpillars, welcome to our class!

This week we have had the pleasure of welcoming 5 baby caterpillars into our class. They started off very small and we have seen them grow bigger and bigger each day. We have looked into the lifecycle of a butterfly and created our own showing each stage. We can’t wait to see the caterpillars…

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28 April 2015

Careful Counting

In Duxbury Class we have been practising our counting.  We are learning to count up to 100 and back from 100.  We have been trying to find out how many coins cover the shape and we counted in tens to find the answer.  Outside in the castle we counted the bricks and we chose to count in…

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28 April 2015

Building a Bug Hotel

What a busy first week we have had! We went down to the garden of EDEN to hunt for some Minibeasts and find out where they like to live. Then we built our very own Bug Hotel in our outside area, we are hoping for lots of visitors!!

We also found time to visit church and look at and explore the…

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14 April 2015

In Rivington Class…

In Rivington Class, this term, we have been learning about witches potions. We have been reading the Macbeth poem, and have created our own poems similar to Shakespeare’s version. Over the term, we have mixed Harry potter’s theme tune in audacity. Then, we have recorded our poems onto this. After…

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