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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…

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!

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! 

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. 

 

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. 
 

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. 

As part of our investigation into adaptation, we decided this week to explore how animals cope in extreme environments. We wanted to know which animals would be adapted better to the cold. Our investigation led us to have three tubs of water.

one tub was left on the side - this represented bare…

In our English, we have been thinking about texts and writing for a purpose. Our first purpose is to entertain with a story. Our second purpose was to build fear and suspense as our stories were horror! To help us with that, we worked together to analyse a horror description. Children worked in…

We are very lucky duckies this week as Ben and Leo brought in some ducklings! Some of them were already hatched, whereas some were in the middle of hatching before our eyes! We loved asking questions about them and learning about how the incubator kept the eggs warm. Plus, they were very, very…

We were so excited this morning when Mrs Wright (Leo’s mum) brought in their duckling incubator. They have been looking after five eggs for the past few weeks and now three have hatched! One also hatched whilst we were in school! It was fascinating to watch the babies and see the new life…

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…

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…