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Today the children have learnt about the discovery of Sutton Hoo and why this was an important discovery for Britains understanding of Anglo-Saxon Britain, as part of our learning we re-enacted the discovery of the ship and how the conversation might have gone between Basil Brown (an excavator)…

The children have been practising their pencil grips and pencil control to trace over different pre-writing shapes. They have also applied this independently within the provision. 
Brilliant concentration and determination. 

We have been doing Gymnastics this half term on a Friday with Miss Cawley. We have used our body to make shapes such as a pike, tuck, straddle. Today we have begun to practise different jumps. We really enjoy our PE lessons!

To end our Science topic - Animals including Humans. We have carried out an investigation answering the question ‘What animals live in our School grounds?’ We made a prediction using our scientific knowledge of animal groups and then used our IPads to take photographs of the wildlife that we found…

On Wednesday year 4 started planning for their independent writes. We had some insightful discussions and worked together on whiteboards to create some high level sentences using our year 4 skills together!

This week Year 4 have been practising their multiplication skills, some of us have even challenged ourselves to use our skills to answer difficult reasoning and problem solving questions!

Today Year 4 went down to our local woods in forest school to explore nature on a beautiful frosty morning!

This week we have been reading one of our treasure stories ‘What About Me’. We listened to the story and took part in extended discussions about the characters and key events in the story. 
To begin with we discussed the two features of a book we have been focusing on - the title and…

Today we have looked at a range of grammar skills that we have covered so far this  year in preparation for our Grammar Test next week!

In our Science lesson this week, we have been modelling the movement of the Earth, Sun and Moon. We then made a model and wrote a short explanation in our books. 

The children have been learning all about shapes this week. We have been focusing on sorting  simple 2D shapes into groups. The children are focusing on recognising the shapes in different ways such as size and colour but knowing they are still the same shape represented in different ways. They…

This morning the children were showing a strong interest in the frosty morning. We discussed what we could see and feel this morning as a group and we then recapped previously taught knowledge of Autumn. 
We talked about Autumn having lots of different weather types over the month. 

We then…