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Today Year 4 went down to our local woods in forest school to explore nature on a beautiful frosty morning!

This week we have been reading one of our treasure stories ‘What About Me’. We listened to the story and took part in extended discussions about the characters and key events in the story. 
To begin with we discussed the two features of a book we have been focusing on - the title and…

Today we have looked at a range of grammar skills that we have covered so far this  year in preparation for our Grammar Test next week!

In our Science lesson this week, we have been modelling the movement of the Earth, Sun and Moon. We then made a model and wrote a short explanation in our books. 

The children have been learning all about shapes this week. We have been focusing on sorting  simple 2D shapes into groups. The children are focusing on recognising the shapes in different ways such as size and colour but knowing they are still the same shape represented in different ways. They…

This morning the children were showing a strong interest in the frosty morning. We discussed what we could see and feel this morning as a group and we then recapped previously taught knowledge of Autumn. 
We talked about Autumn having lots of different weather types over the month. 

We then…

Today in maths we have been exploring how to practically find two parts and name the whole up to 5. Some of us were also able to answer a reasoning question relating to the composition of numbers up to 5. We are super mathematicians!

Today we used roleplay to act out a storyboard in Latin! We used what we already knew to build on our knowledge to translate and practise in our pairs. 

For the last few weeks, Y6 have been creating activism posters inspired by something which they feel passionate about. We began our artistic journey by creating the canvas for our poster using wallpaper and a collaging method. This effect has been really effective in giving our posters an…

This week, Y6 have started their new Maths topics entitled ‘Converting Units’. This week we have been learning all about metric measures and converted them using division and multiplication. Y6 are doing really well with this topic so far, keep up the super work! 

We discussed the features of fiction and non-fiction texts. We found out that fiction books are made up stories containing fictional characters, whereas non-fiction books provide information and contain lots of facts about real things. After looking at some examples together, we worked in…

Year 3 tried something new today - we used a needle and thread to add to our seascapes in art. Using white, blue and green thread we created patterns to add to our wonderful artwork. We found it tricky and a little bit fiddly but we showed determination and made great progress. Well done!