Seasides in the Past

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Our topic this half term is called Buckets and Spades and we are going to do lots of fun learning linked to the seaside. This first week we have begun by reading stories linked to the seaside, we started with some old favourites - The Lighthouse Keeper stories by Rhonda and David Armitage. 

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Phonics and Spelling Fun

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Everyone in Lower School has been working so hard learning how to read and write by word building, learning tricky words and having fun with phonics games. It might be a tricky thing to do with so many spelling rules to follow to our children are having fun and making great…

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Mr Potato Head

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We’ve been have a lot of fun, learning whilst playing with our new Mr Potato Heads. Everyone has been creating characters, creating stories with them and having many conversations about their creations. Our Reception children have used them to learn about our senses, counted and talked about pairs…

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Finding Fractions

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We had a whole class fraction fun afternoon this week as the children folded various shapes seeing if they good fold them into equal parts. Lots of conversation, lots of learning and a great deal of competition as they tired to fold their shapes into very small parts!

 

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Investigating the past

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Mrs Maycock brought in her son’s collection of fossils and a Mako Shark’s jaw for us to have a close look at this week and we were all fascinated!  We learnt that the shark has a four sets of teeth growing at any one time as they break easily! 

 

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Athletics

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We’ve been making the most of the great weather and been able to enjoy PE outdoors. The children have been developing lots of different skills through activities in athletics over the past few weeks. 

 

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Fraction Fun

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Year Two began investigating fractions this week. After revising parts and wholes we had some fun playing different games to develop their understanding before we look closer at fractions of shapes and amounts next week. 
 

 
 

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Junk Modelling

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Our Reception superstars have been learning lots of new designing, folding, building and attaching skills and have created some great models out of junk this week. 

 

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Will It Sink?

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We had so much fun investigating floating and sinking! Inspired by the story ‘Mr Gumpy’s Outing’ by John Burningham the children used their scientific investigation skills as they made boats and tested to see how many animals their boat could hold before it sank. 
 

Firstly we reflected back…

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Wheels In Action

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Over a number of lessons the children have designed and built some fantastic vehicles modelled on the car in the story ‘Mr Gumpy’s Motor Car’ by John Burningham. 
 

They have learnt so many new skills which they practised again and again as some decided to extend their original designs and…

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How many?

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Each year group in Lower School have been learning how to measure in different ways over the past two weeks. They have been exploring, length, height, mass, capacity, volume and temperature through a variety of activities. Here are a few photos showing a snapshot of some of the activities…


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Literacy Fun

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In Lower School we play lots of games to help the learning ‘stick’ every week, it’s never easy to take photos of the learning as we move speedily and I’m always enjoying the learning with the children! However here are a few of a splat game we played this week as we were learning how to use…

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