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Star of the Week 19/4/18
Category: Star of the week
Robinwood Residential 2018
Thursday
All groups are spending the majority of the day outside enjoying the weather. Today is full of conquering fears on the zip line, giant swing and trapeze! We’ve also had compliments from the kitchen staff for our fantastic manners and compliments from instructors for good behaviour! The…
Category: Whole School
Tags: Residentials
Where in the world?
Year 4 are looking at map skills and fieldwork in Geography.
We got the globe out and the class set of maps and atlases to locate different countries and see who they bordered and if there were any other features we noticed. We also discussed whether having borders and controls was fair.…
Category: Class of 2014
Debate Competition
Following our debating topic in January, we were provided with the opportunity to go to a debating competition!
Once we were told that we would be proposing the motion 'mobile phones should be allowed in schools', we quickly began to research some evidence for our argument at debate…
Tags: Class 5
Y6 Maths Mastery - Ratio and Proportion
This week we have been learning about Ratio and Proportion. Here we are sorting coloured blocks into groups and working out the different ratios. We have been working through some problems but also considering how we use ratios in real life when we are baking and cooking.
Posted by Mr Rugg on 26 March 2018
Category: 2017 - 2018 Year 6
Farming Fun in Class R
This half term we have been learning about animals and farms. The children have made butter from cream - and enjoyed spreading and eating it! They also made bread and found out where flour comes from by reading The Little Red Hen. In the classroom a farm shop has appeared, with products priced…
Posted by Mrs Barrett on 25 March 2018
Category: Class of 2018
Class R's Sport Relief Fun
Reception had great fun on Friday enjoying our Sport Relief activities. In the morning we had an impromptu maths lesson as they all spotted numbers on each other, getting particularly excited when they found our new number of the week, number 9.
In the afternoon we enjoyed using the trim…
Posted by Mrs Barrett on 25 March 2018
Category: Class of 2018
Meanwood Valley Urban Farm!
WOW! What an adventurous yet tiring day. We got the coach in the morning to the farm and spent the full day there learning about habitats and minibeasts to help with our science topic. Robert and Mick planned some great activities for us; a minibeast hunt (it was like an episode of I'm a Celebrity…
Category: Class of 2014
World Book Day in Class 5
WHODUNNIT?!
What a fantastic World Book Day experience!
Class 5 were amazing right from the start and maintained their detective personas all day long! It was wonderful to see everyone in character, taking notes in their notebooks and putting all their efforts in to solving the crime.
Our…
Tags: Class 5
Greek visitor & DT day!
What a fantastic week we have had in Class 5!
We kickstarted the week with a Greek Visitor who showed us lots of interesting artifacts from Ancient Greek including: weapons, medical supplies and even some ancient games. We studied the artifacts, sketched them and tried to predict what they were…
Tags: Class 5
Exploring Capacity
Class 3 have had a fun but wet morning exploring capacity!
We had a range of different sized containers and were focusing on carefull pouring (this was tricky!) and accurate reading of the scale to find out the volume of each container.
Some of the larger containers proved challenging as…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 16 March 2018
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
World Book Day 2018 #whodunnit
WOW! What an amazing day we had! As part of World Book Day 2018, the children participated in a day of developing their reading inference skills; using clues to find out which suspect (members of staff) had stolen the first edition Harry Potter book, worth £40,000! Every child made such an…
Category: Class of 2014