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This week Nursery have travelled to France to explore the country and how it differs to Stoke - on - Trent. Today we have enjoyed talking about popular French food, and creating our own plates. We also wrote the names of the food created, independently forming each letter and looking at the flash…

In our Geography lesson this week, we have been learning all about how deserts are formed. By the end of the lesson, we were able to confidently use key high level vocabulary to give detailed explanations to answer challenging questions. Some key words included: vegetation, dersertification,…

This week in Writing we have been focussing on understanding how to punctuate dialogue correctly. This is something Stingrays at the beginning of the week really struggled with. We are very proud of how the children have shown such determination and resilience over the week; show casing just how…

On Thursday afternoon we held our Year 4 sports day! It was lovely to see the children really enjoying themselves and cheering one another on. We have definitely got some future athletes in Stingrays! We had a fantastic afternoon and when we got back to class we enjoyed looking back through all of…

We have been writing diaries in Year 1 this week, using the text Hello Lighthouse. We focused on using last tense and first person, as well as including all the features  of a diary entry. Today we planned a diary entry for our independent write next week. The children came up with lots of amazing…

During Geography, year 1 were se the challenge of locating seaside towns using an atlas. They learnt that atlases contain maps of the world and can help us to find specific places. Children used their prior knowledge of coastlines to know that seaside towns would be at the edge of the United…

Today we worked together to locate the seasides around the UK using an atlas. The children drew upon their prior knowledge, knowing the seaside is located on the coast, to help them locate and identify the specific seaside destinations. The children’s map skills developed considerably throughout…

We had a fantastic day on Thursday for KS1 sports day. The children were absolutely amazing and wowed me with their courage, determination and sportsmanship. What an incredible morning we had, finished off with a nice resting ice lolly. 

Year 1 have continued to learn about mechanisms is DT this week. The children have made a wheel mechanism to make the wolf appear closer to Little Red Riding Hood. They used lots of skills to complete their finished product and were very proud of themselves!  ⭐️

Year 4 have absolutely flew Arithmetic this week in which they have been consolidating multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100. These are very important skills which will support them in lots of areas of Maths learning. Well done Y4!

This week, Y4 have worked hard in their writing lessons to prepare for their next independent write which will be a narrative. They have shown super determination with skills including expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, conjunctions and dialogue! Keep up the determination Y4! 

Today we set our Funky Fingers the challenge of making a dough person, they did a fantastic job, what do you think?