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We’ve been learning about hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age and had to work out which items of food were hunted and which items were gathered by our human ancestors.

We have been exploring emotions and using our group working skills, we sorted the emotions into positive and negative categories.  We discussed why we had put particular emotions in a category.

Today we had great fun planting cress seeds! We talked about the different things that plants need to grow before we began. Then, we created our own name labels to stick on our pots and went on to follow step by step instructions in order to plant the cress seeds. We talked about the most…

Ducklings have had a very exciting week this week! We welcomed 5 new members to our class - Colin, Kelly, Kim, Benjamin and Betty our real life caterpillars! We can't wait to watch them grow, change and experience the life cycle of a caterpillar first hand!

Today Puffins did some fantastic weaving, creating an under the sea placemat, making their own weft and carefully weaving strips of paper through the weft.  Amazing efforts all around!

Year 5 Dolphins really enjoyed investigating our new text 'Varjak Paw' by SF Said this week. We used our summarising skills to find the main points of each chapter, before bullet pointing them into a list.

This week we learnt all about the Islamic Festival Eid-Al-Fitr. We created a lantern design and wrote acrostic poems to recognise and learn more about this important festival. For those who are celebrating Eid this week, we wish you all a very Happy Eid! 

This week, Y4 have been introduced to their brand new Class Text 'The Firework Maker's Daughter'. Y4 are really enjoying this adventure story so far. We can't wait to find out more about Lila's inspirational journey to Mount Merapi! 

We’ve been looking at lines of symmetry in maths and applying this knowledge to 2D shapes.

Puffins were excited to listen to the first chapter of our new story which is our writing focus for this half-term.   We encountered Mildred, Maud and Miss Hardbroom.   We’re looking forward to finding out what really happens at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches.

This week we have been talking about Spring and the different signs of Spring. One that we discussed was the fact that lots of flowers start to grow in Spring. On our creative table we enjoyed drawing observational pictures of a bunch of flowers. Our pictures were amazing!

Y5 Narwhals hit the ground running on their first day back with some new vocabulary from their reading text!