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Today we learned about the Earth and the 3 parts it is split into. We learned that the imaginary line called the equator splits the world into the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. We learned that the closer a country is to the equator, the hotter it is. We also learned that the…

Today the children in Year 5 have work very hard to convert Improper Fractions into Mixed Numbers, we linked this to our prior learning non equivalent fractions and used this skill to answer a variety of problem solving and reasoning questions.

Wow! It was very exciting when we came into school and discovered that our caterpillars have now entered the next stage of their life cycle! They are in their cocoons and so we had to transfer them into the butterfly net. We talked about how long they might be in their cocoon for and realised that…

We had the BEST time celebrating the King’s Coronation! We enjoyed our afternoon tea and had an extra surprise at the end of the day when we were given a special mug from Emma Bridgewater. 

On Friday we celebrated the coronation of King Charles! I was very impressed with Stingrays creativity in creating decorative crowns for our parade. Well done to everyone they all looked brilliant! In the afternoon we then had a celebration buffet, where we enjoyed spending our time chatting,…

Year 1 enjoyed showcasing their fantastic crown designs in front of their friends, year 2 and year 3. They paraded on to the stage with confidence and wore their crowns with pride. The children continued to wear their crowns for the rest of the day’s celebrations including their royal tea party.…

We have had a lovely day beginning with our crown parade in the hall.  This afternoon we decorated Union Jack flags to take to our Cornonation party.  Later on, we made Coronation bookmarks and reflected upon previous Queen’s coronation.  We are all super excited for tomorrow and some of the…

Year 5 Dolphins had a great time celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III today!

This week in writing we have written our independent write which was an informal letter from the perspective of our main character Lila. Year 4 have produced some marvellous pieces of writing! We are now using our year 4 skills without even thinking. Well done year 4 keep up the hard work! 

Wow! Look at our wonderful crowns that we have created for King Charles’ Coronation! We talked about what the word coronation means and what we are celebrating so that the children understood why today is a special day. Lots of us recognised King Charles when we looked at some pictures!

Working as scientists, we set up various experiments around our classroom to see what plants really need in order to grow into healthy plants.  We placed some cress seeds in sunlight, some in dark places, watered some and didn’t water some of the cress seeds.  We’ll observe what happens to the…

We were super impressed with our Story Mountain for the Worst Witch today. We worked together to think about the features of a story including the introduction, build up, problem, resolution and the ending. We listened carefully to the story and participated in group discussion. This is something…