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This week Nursery have been exploring what happens when something melts.  We put coloured icebergs into the water tray.  Whilst the children explored how the icebergs felt and how they behaved in water, they noticed that the icebergs were getting smaller and the water was turning the colour of the…

This half term Year 2 have designed and made Australian animal puppets. We have had a variety of animals including snakes, frogs, sharks, koalas, kangaroos and even a duck billed platypus!  We used our puppets as inspiration to create a story including our animals and even made them into an ebook!…

We would like you to create an information leaflet or poster around Internet safety. You can base it on our discussion around group chats or you may want to look at social media, gaming… We would like you to target your information at adults and the best ones will be chosen and sent out to…

Can you solve these maths related puzzles?

Either add your responses to the blog or bring them in!

Mr H

This week we have been describing fruit and writing speech bubbles from Oliver or his Mum’s point of view.

We have discussed E-safety and created posters demonstrating that we know how to use technology safely.

During Maths we have been completing subtraction calculations using objects and…

This week in Nursery, we have been busy celebrating Chinese New Year.

We enjoyed eating egg fried rice using chopsticks, making dragon masks and then coming up with our own dragon dances. We tried on traditional Chinese clothes and explored Chinese artefacts, artwork and ornaments.

We now…

Year 4 have been investigating area and perimeter in Maths lessons this week by doing lots of practical work and investigations to secure our understanding. We have worked out the most efficient way to measure area and found out that shapes with the same areas can have different perimeters.

This week we have been thinking about how to stay safe when using the internet. Sometimes it can be difficult to know what to do when something appears onscreen that you are unsure of. Smartie the penguin helped us by teaching us this rhyme:

Before you tap and click…

You need to stop and…

This week’s homework covers Parenthesis and Order of Operations.

Please return it by Friday 8th February.

If you have any problem with it, speak to one of the team.

Mr H

This week for homework we would like you to research Stephen Hawking. Consider his childhood, education, adulthood, achievements… You will need to bring your research into school by Monday 4th February as we need it for our work next week.

Year 4 enjoyed a visit from Jean from Cleveland Ironstone Museum this afternoon to deliver a series of tasks based on different rock types to support our Mountain work. The children enjoyed sorting the rocks into different categories and learning about their different types and features. We then…