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In Maths this week, we have been counting forwards and backwards to and from 100. We also looked at partitioning numbers to 100, identifying the value of the tens and ones. The children wowed us with their amazing knowledge and understanding. 

This half term Year 1 are using the story “Hello Lighthouse” as their writing stimulus. The children used role play and drama to retell the key events in the story. In doing so they took on the role of different characters thinking about their actions, feelings and…

Year 5 Dolphins have used their reading VIPERS summarising skills this morning to help in their understanding of our new text this week.

Today Nursery went for a trip to the seaside! At the seaside we wanted some ice cream so needed to count the scoops. We did an amazing job of matching number to quantity from 1-10, and then drew various ice cream amounts on the whiteboard. Well done Nursery! 

Today, we began putting our phonics development into practice by listening to sounds in order to write some CVC words. We we absolute superstars and could hear the sounds in each word really well. We even knew how to write each sound with minimum support! Well done superstars

This week, Y4 have been introduced to their final Y4 text entitled 'The Boy at the Back of the Class'. So far, we've read the first 3 chapters and Y4 have thoroughly enjoyed it! We have started our preparation for our next independent write which will be a diary entry from the perspective of the…

We went for a walk around our local area to gather key vocabulary to use in our English independent write.  We had a lovely walk along the canal before ending up in Hanley Park where we had time to explore the park and all of its exciting equipment.  Some people’s feet were very tired by the time…

Year 3 visited Clip n Climb today and what a great time we had! We conquered all of the walls with many of us hitting the button at the very top! Some of us even reached number 10 on the drop slide before we slipped down into the balls at the bottom. Well done everyone! This experience will…

Year five Dolphins really enjoyed role playing the lives of convicts at Camp Green Lake, the setting of our class text, 'Holes' by Louis Sachar today. Mrs Edwards was a very convincing prison warden!

This week Reception have been learning about African animals. The children have discussed and observed the features of the animals and what they need in their environment. 
We began drawing in pencil, looking closely at the shapes and lines needed. We then independently chose the colours needed…

The children have recapped their learning of 2D shape names and their properties. This week we have been focusing on 3D shape names and recognising them in the environment. We have looked at images, we have been on shape hunts and coloured lots of different shapes, we then counted how many shapes…