18 October 2016

Autumn 1

Hello!

We have had a very busy half term, so here is an overview of our activities of the last few weeks.........

Literacy

In literacy, we have been looking at newspaper reports. We have been journalists reporting on the murder of Snow White in New York. We have been looking at sentence…

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17 October 2016

14th October 2016

On your marks, get set....BAKE! 

This week, Oak Class has smelled wonderful because we've been baking to raise money for Macmillan. In threes, we designed and baked 12 cupcakes based on a basic recipe before selling them at our parents' evenings to raise money. We made over £73!

There were…

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14 October 2016

14th October - Ash Class

14th October 

This week in Ash class we have been performing poetry in English and had a go at writing our own. We are now able to spot figurative language in different poems and next week we will be creating our own including different forms of imagery. John’s favourite poem was ‘Word Party’ –…

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12 October 2016

Week beginning 7th October

This week the children have continued to familiarise themselves with Numicon in a number of different ways.They built a number track to use for sequencing, used a feely bag to guess the number of the Numicon shape, played Numicon snakes and ladders.All these activities involved the children…

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11 October 2016

Tuesday 11th October

Last Wednesday we had an amazing party after school with our teachers. The party was a reward for winning the race to achieve the most positive behaviour points in the whole school each term. Our housepoints are called 'Stakesby Stars' and each week we try to earn as many as possible for the…

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7 October 2016

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7/10/2016

This week we have welcomed Hollie to our class!

This week we have been creating our class contribution for Harvest assembly. Ellie and Olivia MT read out our introduction and for Ellie it was the first time ever! #scary

We finished our Romulus and Remus stories and next…

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7 October 2016

Friday 7th October 2016

Over the past fortnight, we've been working on poetry. We combined our history topic with literacy and wrote some fantastic Black Death poetry using the most impressive figurative language we could. in addition to this, Mrs Mason worked with us to produce some fantastic artwork using just black…

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6 October 2016

Week beginning 3rd October

This week Holly class have enjoyed an informative Autumn walk in the brilliant October sunshine to stimulate writing a recount, whilst also observing seasonal changes.Our super photographs recording our walk have enabled the children to sequence their experience orally using new time connectives…

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5 October 2016

Wednesday 5th October

This week we have been busy preparing for our Harvest Festival. The school theme is 'all the colours of the rainbow' and our class is responsible for orange. In class, we have been learning about a special kind of poem called a Cinquain. We have written Cinquain poems about different kinds of…

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1 October 2016

Ash Class Blog

30th September 

Another busy week in Ash Class! This week we have been continuing our Romulus and Remus writing by creating mock social media page profiles for the main characters. We had fun with these - some are really funny! We went down into the woods on Friday and in groups each re-created…

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29 September 2016

Week beginning 26th September 2016

Our talk homework this week about the ending of 'The Enormous Turnip' has led to some fantastic talk partner work as we shared our ideas.These ideas included the turnip turning into a rocket and blasting to the moon and the old man winning a medal and trophy in a turnip growing competition.

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28 September 2016

Wednesday 28th September 2016

The weeks are flying past now and our first month in Maple Class is nearly over already! We have begun to research our History topic on 'Ancient Greece' by finding out more about the very first Olympic Games. 

Did you know?

  • The first Olympic Games was in 776BC and only lasted for one…
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