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Today we checked to see how our cress seeds were growing.  Some pots had a rather strange smell coming from them!  Others looked exactly as we had left them the other week - seeds and cotton wool.  Using our investigative skills we decided that sunlight and water were the most ideal conditions…

We have had a lovely day beginning with our crown parade in the hall.  This afternoon we decorated Union Jack flags to take to our Cornonation party.  Later on, we made Coronation bookmarks and reflected upon previous Queen’s coronation.  We are all super excited for tomorrow and some of the…

Working as scientists, we set up various experiments around our classroom to see what plants really need in order to grow into healthy plants.  We placed some cress seeds in sunlight, some in dark places, watered some and didn’t water some of the cress seeds.  We’ll observe what happens to the…

We’ve been learning about hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age and had to work out which items of food were hunted and which items were gathered by our human ancestors.

We have been exploring emotions and using our group working skills, we sorted the emotions into positive and negative categories.  We discussed why we had put particular emotions in a category.

Today Puffins did some fantastic weaving, creating an under the sea placemat, making their own weft and carefully weaving strips of paper through the weft.  Amazing efforts all around!

We’ve been looking at lines of symmetry in maths and applying this knowledge to 2D shapes.

Puffins were excited to listen to the first chapter of our new story which is our writing focus for this half-term.   We encountered Mildred, Maud and Miss Hardbroom.   We’re looking forward to finding out what really happens at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches.

In our English lessons this week, we have been planning and then completing our independent write - a letter from Paddington to Aunt Lucy, telling her all about our exciting adventures in London.  We have been focusing on using the correct punctuation and a range of sentence types within our…

This week in our English lessons, we have completed our independent write of an alternative setting in our first chapter of Paddington.  We then moved to looking at informal features of a letter and began to plan our letter to Aunt Lucy.  We used our prior knowledge of London to describe places…

In English lessons this week, we have been using conjunctions to extend our sentences and looking at alternative vocabulary to use to write an alternative setting to our story.  We have discussed various nouns, adjectives and adverbs to describe our new setting - at an airport, instead of at a…

This week in English, we have started to explore our new text ‘Paddington.’  The children predicted that it is a fiction text and were able to explain why. We focused on the first chapter of the story and are we are exploring vocabulary to use in an alternative setting.  

A highlight of the…