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5 May 2023

Coronation celebrations

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…

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4 May 2023

Super scientists!

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…

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26 April 2023

Stone Age hunter-gatherers

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.

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26 April 2023

Exploring emotions

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.

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21 April 2023

Wonderful weaving!

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!

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20 April 2023

Seeing double!

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

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20 April 2023

Puffins, witches and writing!

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.

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20 March 2023

20.03.23

In our English lessons this week, we have been planning and then completing our independent write - a letter from Paddington to Aunt Lucy, telling her all about our exciting adventures in London.  We have been focusing on using the correct punctuation and a range of sentence types within our…

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13 March 2023

13.03.23

This week in our English lessons, we have completed our independent write of an alternative setting in our first chapter of Paddington.  We then moved to looking at informal features of a letter and began to plan our letter to Aunt Lucy.  We used our prior knowledge of London to describe places…

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6 March 2023

06.03.23

In English lessons this week, we have been using conjunctions to extend our sentences and looking at alternative vocabulary to use to write an alternative setting to our story.  We have discussed various nouns, adjectives and adverbs to describe our new setting - at an airport, instead of at a…

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27 February 2023

27.02.23

This week in English, we have started to explore our new text ‘Paddington.’  The children predicted that it is a fiction text and were able to explain why. We focused on the first chapter of the story and are we are exploring vocabulary to use in an alternative setting.  

A highlight of the…

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13 February 2023

13/02/23

In English this week, the Puffins have developed their cinquain poetry skills by writing a poem about Spring.  At the end of the week, they performed their poems to the rest of the class and it was a delight to watch how their performing skills had improved.

In Maths, we have been learning…

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