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Our new topic in PE this half term is dance, where we are focusing on our theme - the plague!
Children did some dramatic dancing and movement focusing on how the plague would affect people. Children got into pairs to create four separate freeze frames to demonstrate the symptoms of the plague. We…

To finish up our PE topic of outdoor teamwork games, we played a variety of games that would really put our teams to the test! Our favourite was hula hut. This involved groups working together to collect hoops and build them into a spherical structure. We worked out there were different methods to…

We were very lucky to have a visitor come into ks2 on Friday morning. Steve came to talk to us about maths and how we use it in our daily lives and jobs. He told us about his job in marketing and his hobbies and we worked out some of the ways he uses maths. Children had lots of interesting and…

We had a fantastic visit from the Ogden Trust team yesterday afternoon! Mhairi and her colleagues came to work with Year 5/6 on some ‘Team Challenges’ which concluded our PE topic for this half term. 
The class enjoyed working in large and small groups to solve puzzles and complete tasks set.…

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…