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This week we have been representing numbers and amounts in a variety of ways. During this lesson Year One represented objects practically using counters or bears in a tens frame.

In RE we are learning all about Christians and their beliefs. This week we have heard the creation story and how Christians believe God created the world over 7 days. We used our talk for writing map to sequence the seven days into the correct order.

This week we have been unscrambling words to make super sentences which make sense. Some other children have been unscrambling letters to make words. We are then going to write the sentences and words which we have made remembering all of the letter formation which we have been practising in our…

This week in Science, we made a model of the human blood using different materials. We really enjoyed this lesson even though it was a little bit gross!

Last week in Maths, we learnt to round numbers up to 10,000,000. This was a tricky lesson that will require more work however we showed our determination and resilience to try our best with our learning!

As part of our topic 'Me and My World', we learnt about the different features of a street. We looked at photographs of streets in Hanley, and identified features including roads, pavements, lampposts, traffic lights and roundabouts. We spoke about the role of these features and shared our own…

Year 4 loved worked together to begin to create sentences together using their sense plan. They are working extremely hard to create a dark, eerie forest for their reader.

In science we are learning about humans, this week we have been learning about body parts. Some children worked in groups to label each others body parts. 

This half term in Writing Y6 will be studying the book ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. This is a fantastic book with some amazing descriptive language. For our first independent write, we shall be writing a setting description of Hogwarts. Y6 are really enjoying this text so far and I…

This week in Science, we have been learning all about how blood gets around our bodies. We learnt about arteries, veins and capillaries and their functions within the circulatory system. We also analysed blood pressure readings. Y6 are really enjoying this topic so far and have produced some…

Year 6 have been busy creating a model heart in our Science lessons this week. As part of our ‘Animals including Humans’ topic, we have shown how the heart pumps blood to other parts of the body using its thick, muscular walls and pressure within the arteries.