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15 March 2024

Science Day

We enjoyed a Science assembly as part of our celebrations for British Science Week. The Science Boffins wowed us with some exciting demonstrations, including chemical reactions and the how different forces act upon objects. We all participated brilliantly and it was so lovely to see the children's…

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15 March 2024

Finding our favourite Dipper!

Year 1 have spent their DT lesson using their senses to find their favourite dipper . They tasted cucumber, breadstick, carrot and tortilla crisps! Their firm favourite was tortilla crisps with 18 of 30 voting for it. 

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22 February 2024

Active 60 Festival at Fenton Sports Manor

This week year 1 and 2 went to Fenton Manor to take part alongside other schools. We were able to stay active for a full 60 minutes, taking part in a range of sporting activities. 
We had such positive feedback from the children and it was lovely to see them working as a team and communicating to…

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12 January 2024

DT Day

Year 1 took part in their DT day where they created a final project of ‘fabric faces’.

They learnt  how to join fabrics, cut fabrics and created their own design.

everybody had a great day and really enjoyed learning something new.

 

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1 December 2023

Scientists at work!

To end our Science topic - Animals including Humans. We have carried out an investigation answering the question ‘What animals live in our School grounds?’ We made a prediction using our scientific knowledge of animal groups and then used our IPads to take photographs of the wildlife that we found…

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17 November 2023

Exploring Watercolour

This week in Art we have begun our new Art topic - Exploring Watercolour. We have used the watercolours to try out a variety of techniques and to experiment with colour mixing.

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17 November 2023

Anti-bullying week!

Odd socks day! Why did we wear odd socks to School? Well the children in Year One can tell you. 

“It is okay to be different. We need to be kind to each other” - Darasimi

”We are wearing odd socks to show it’s okay to be different” - Hamd

”Bullying is not okay. It means being unkind over…

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17 November 2023

Children in Need!

During our class assembly we discussed Children in Need. We learnt what ‘charity’ and ‘fundraising’ means. In our computing lesson, we have logged on to Purple Mash using a username and password and we used the paint tool to draw our own picture of the emblem, Pudsey…

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11 October 2023

Drawing club

In drawing club today ,our year 1’s used mirrors to study their faces and created their very own self portraits!

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28 September 2023

I see shells!

Today we have practised continuous line drawings of shells! We found it quite tricky to keep the pencil on the paper and not take it off until the drawing is complete. However we were determined to create some beautiful art! Look what we have done.

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22 September 2023

Subsidising Superstars!

Year 1 loved using the one minute maths app to practise the skill of subsidising. They worked hard to beat their previous scores and were so excited to showcase what they had achieved. 

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14 September 2023

Snail trails!

Today we have been investigating the artist Molly Haslund, we created our amazing works of art in her style using chalks and black sugar paper. Molly Haslunds art often contain spirals and circles, we started by using a white chalk to make a snail trail on our paper then we filled the spiral in…

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