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12 October 2023

Drawing club!

Here are some of the fabulous self portraits that our year 2’s have created! Some amazing look a likes! Well done year 2!

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12 October 2023

Creating picture frames for our family photos!

We explored a lot of new resources today and how to use them. We discussed what a picture frame is and what we could use to decorate it. We had pom-poms, glitter, tissue paper, colours and lots more. The children independently chose what they would like to put on their picture frame and enjoyed…

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12 October 2023

Listen to your conscience

Year 6 showed their understanding of Isabella’s thoughts as she breaks a promise made to her best friend, inspired by our class text ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’.

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11 October 2023

Role play - Whatever Next!

We have been looking at the story Whatever Next! and today we used masks and props to role play different parts of the story. We pretended to be baby bear getting ready for his trip to the moon, baby bear in his rocket ship, baby bear and owl having a picnic on the moon and then mother bear…

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11 October 2023

Repeating patterns!

In reception we have been looking at repeating patterns. Today the children had a go at completing a repeating pattern, creating their own repeating pattern and spotting the mistake in a repeating pattern. 

We love repeating patterns!

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11 October 2023

Drawing club

In drawing club today ,our year 1’s used mirrors to study their faces and created their very own self portraits!

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11 October 2023

Recognising numbers 0-2

This week we continued to recognise the numbers 0 and 1, we have now been learning about number 2. We recognised the numbers and started to represent them with objects. The children did amazing counting the correct amount of objects to match the numeral. 

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10 October 2023

Clay Workshop

What an exciting afternoon Turtles have had! We walked to our local village hall to participate in a clay workshop with the British Ceramics Biennial. We had the opportunity to look at a range of artwork made from clay and then created our own ceramic tile with seeds inside! These will eventually…

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10 October 2023

Phonics - Instrumental Sounds

We have loved exploring the musical instruments this week. We have learnt their names and listened to the different sounds they make. We identified if the sounds were long or short and then experimented with making the sounds loud and quiet. It was so much fun! At the end of the session we always…

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9 October 2023

Write like an Egyptian

Today we had so much fun pretending to write like an Egyptian; using hieroglyphics. We learned about how the Ancient Egyptians used symbols and pictures to communicate and had a go at writing using them by ourselves. 

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9 October 2023

Fine Motor - Tracing

We have been working very hard on our pencil grips and finding out how to get the best control of the pencil. We all have a dominate hand and Miss Mayer modelled how to hold the pencil correctly. We then practised tracing over different lines with increasing control.

We used the felt tips and…

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