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We worked as a group to look at lots of different recounts and decided on the features of the genre. This will help us when we write our own this week!

We had SO much fun using the glockenspiels in today’s music lesson. We learned a simple tune of ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ to get us used to using them. 

Year 5 Dolphins used their powerful predicting skills beautifully today to investigate our new English text: Holes by Louis Sachar.

Year five Dolphins really enjoyed role playing the events of the epic tale of Beowulf today!  We took it in turns to portray Grendel, his mother and the hero himself in battle, searching for treasure and slaying monsters! 

This week Year 1 have been writing a set of instructions for how to plant a beanstalk so that Jack can say sorry to the giant. They had lots of fun planting the seeds and learning all about imperative verbs. During their independent write they produced some outstanding instructions including a…

Year 1 have loved learning about Picasso this half term. They have been amazed by his art work and his use of colour to express him emotions. The children have also been fascinated by Picasso's Cubism and even worked on creating their own piece in the same style.

This afternoon Year 1 had lots of fun on the field preparing for sports day. We worked together in teams to complete relays including running and jumping. The children all showed great sportsmanship in cheering one another on. We can’t wait for sports day!

As part of our Science lesson today, Puffins put what we’d be learning in class into practise and we planted some wild flower seeds in the school grounds.  Initially we talked about the different steps we’d need to follow in order to plant our seeds.  Once we’d gathered all of our equipment…

Today we have finished our topic of Living things and their habitats by looking at the life cycles of mammals, amphibians, insects and birds. We have discussed the similarities and differences between their life cycles, looking at aspects such as which of them undergo metamorphosis, which come…

We have enjoyed planting seeds in our gardening area outside. We talked about the different hinge that our seeds will need to grow, dug the soil ourselves and watered our planted seeds. Now we just have to wait for them to grow! 

This week in maths we have been identifying coins up to £2. The children then independently went in the role play area to buy different objects, they took it in turns to work on the till and chose what they would like to buy. They had to find the correct coins and take it to the till keeper to…

We wrote a set of instructions to explain how to make gingerbread men. We discussed the importance of writing our instructions in the correct order, as well as the use of verbs to tell the reader what actions they need to do. We used the skills of including a capital letter at the beginning of…