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30 October 2018

Half Term

We hope you have a fantastic half term break after eight weeks of hard work.

We will see you all back on Monday 5th November. Our topic for the following half term will be ‘The Vikings’!

Year 4 Team

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29 October 2018

Saxon Sounds investigated

For the 3rd Year running the Year 4 classes have constructed musical instruments known as lyres. These were popular in the days of the Anglo Saxons and often accompanied story telling. This time we’ve recorded the instruments and put them onto a video which you can access on our very own YP Nation…

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26 October 2018

The day the fair came to school…

Yesterday, the school hall transformed into a bustling fairground space.

The rides looked amazing, with programmed movements, incredible designs and wonderful stories. Each group did themselves proud and were able to discuss with parents what had happened during the process and how their ride…

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26 October 2018

Rose Wylie

Our inspiration for this years BIG  Draw was the artist Rose Wylie – who really likes to have fun with scale and colour.

Well done to everyone who contributed by adding great marks to their year group pieces.

Mrs W.

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24 October 2018

Peace a Last!

This week reception has be reading the book ‘Peace at last’. They have been learning about night and day and discussing how we will see and hear different things depending on the time. Reception have also been designing and creating their own musical instruments. In math children have been…

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24 October 2018

Our animations

This week Year 2 have been making an animation using I can animate software.

They worked in small groups to create the props and film a scene. Each animation shows the key events from The Great Fire of London.

Ask our history detectives all about what happened in 1666.

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24 October 2018

Musical Anglo-Saxon melodies

Today, Year 4 enjoyed a celebration assembly of their hard work in constructing Anglo-Saxon lyres as a homework task for Mr Newton. The range  of different shapes and construction methods was vast, from blocks of wood to lego and pie tins. However, all were able t make a really interesting sound…

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24 October 2018

End of the the first half term

Where has the time gone?!

It seems like only two minutes ago that we were all just beginning our new learning journey together.

We have crammed so much into the past eight weeks!

We have learnt about volcanoes, earthquakes and tsunamis through our topic work, discovered how rocks and soil…

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23 October 2018

Autumn continues …

This week the children have been continuing their learning about Autumn.  They have had the opportunity to explore pumpkins and find out what is inside.  They found lots of seeds and they  had fun using spoons and tweezers to pick the seeds up and put them into bowls.  A couple of weeks ago the…

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19 October 2018

Wonderful homework

This is just a selection of the fantastic homework we have seen this half term. Well done Year 2, you’ve produced some great homework with lots of different facts about our body!

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19 October 2018

Tuneful tooting

Year 4 have started learning how to play the recorder. Mr Hadfield taught us about  the different lengths of note and how to recognise rests. If you hear wonderful sounds floating along the corridor, it must be Year 4.

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19 October 2018

Homework…

To help consolidate our learning from this week, please have a go at the following pages!

Remember, if you get stuck, come and see us before Friday.

Mr H and Mr W

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