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Mrs Benjamin's Maths Group
This week, Mrs Benjamin's Maths group have been learning to recognise and describe 3D shapes and their properties.
This involved sorting them into groups and recognising real life examples. Evie said, "I really enjoy working with Mrs Benjamin and I feel much more confident about my shapes…
Posted by Mr Rugg on 1 December 2017
Category: 2017 - 2018 Year 6
Star of the Week
Category: Star of the week
Macbeth
Year 4 had a great morning watching The Young Shakespeare company reinact Macbeth. It was interactive for all children and taught them about William Shakespeare and the legacy he left behind on English language.
Category: Class of 2014
Chichen Itza
We have been looking at the story of 'The Chocolate Tree' this half term and will very soon be writing our own versions of the story. To give us some inspiration and to help us understand how the characters may have felt inside, we built a mini Chichen Itza in our classroom. We decorated it with…
Tags: Class 5
Impossible Maths Challenge
This half term we have been focussing on multiplication and division in maths.
Yesterday we attempted to crack a really difficult challenge and the children in class 5 came up with some fantastic reasoning to find the answer!
Well done to Lucy who said "I tried out all of the consecutive…
Tags: Class 5
Class 3 - Stone age shelters
We brought our baskets back into the classroom and showed fantastic teamworking skills to build our stone age shelters.
We even brought some uninvited guests back into the classroom with us, thank goodnes Ben and Toby were there to return the woodlice and spiders to their actual…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 19 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Class 3 gather materials for making stone age shelters!
On Friday we were set the challenge of building stone age shelters using only natural ,materials that we could find outside.
Our first task was to gather these materials, so we wrapped up and set out with baskets to fill!
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 19 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3
Year 6 experience life as an evacuee!
As part of our World War 2 topic, we had a wonderful and interesting visit to Thwaite Mills yesterday. As you can see we entered the spirit by dessing like evacuees and when we arrived were issued with our own I.D. cards and Gas Mask boxes!
We split into groups and took part in 3 workshops…
Posted by Mr Rugg on 17 November 2017
Category: 2017 - 2018 Year 6
Tags: Class 6 Residentials
Star of the Week
Category: Star of the week
Our New Mark Making Board
Class R were thrilled to see our fabulous new blackboard wall. They set straight to work, designing and drawing fireworks and writing captions. The children are using the wall for independent work based on our class topics, enabling them to be creative and imaginative on a huge scale. The boys…
Posted by Mrs Barrett on 15 November 2017
Category: Class of 2018
Star of the week
Category: Star of the week
Class 3 made the digestive system!
In science we followed a set of instructions to make our own digestive system.
First we added a cream cracker, banana and orange juice (which represents stomach acid) into the
plastic sandwich bag which represented our stomach. Then we added water, which represented saliva.
We had to…
Posted by Mrs Pelc on 8 November 2017
Category: Class of 2015
Tags: Class 3