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14 September 2018

Goldilocks and the three bears

This week reception have been doing all about Goldilocks and the three bears. The children have made paper plate bears and even designed and built a house for the bears to live in. The children have settled in really well and seem to be enjoying our topic which is bears.

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12 September 2018

Volcano Art

Here is some of our fantastic art on display in our Year 3 classrooms. The work was inspired  by the artist Nick Rowland who uses maritime and nature to inspire his work.

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12 September 2018

Amazing Anglo-Saxon Treasure

Our topic for this term is the Anglo-Saxons. Soon we will be going on a trip to take part in some Anglo-Saxon worships which will give us a flavour of what is was like to live during this time in history.Before we go, can you do some research on the spectacular gold jewellery that was found in a…

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10 September 2018

Learning about ourselves

We have introduced the children to our topic of ‘Me Me Me’ by opening up our new role play ‘Doctors Surgery’. The children have learnt all about what a doctors surgery is used for, why we go, and who might work there. They have had fun dressing up as Doctors and Nurses, writing prescriptions,…

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9 September 2018

Creativity Suite becomes Crime scene for Year 2 Music Detectives

Various musical clues have been left n the Creativity Suite for the Year 2 budding detectives. They have to collect the evidence and solve the mystery. Questions  to be asked are:

  1. Which instruments have been guilty of playing in the middle of the night and waking people up?
  2. What can you…
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7 September 2018

Welcome to Reception

The children have settled in nicely this week and completed lots of super learning. Well done.

We have discussed the Golden Rules and all agreed to follow them.

Our first topic is Bears. The children have loved bringing in their own teddies from home and talking about them.

We have…

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7 September 2018

Welcome back!

It’s been a busy week across school, welcoming everyone back after the holiday and making a great start to the new year.

We have been talking about our New Years resolutions about learning , making a difference and beautiful work.

I have been really lucky today to spend my time with our Y6…

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7 September 2018

Goodnight Mr Tom

Monday sees the launch of our topic linked to a significant event in our countries history.

We will be focusing our attention on the wonderful story ‘Goodnight Mr Tom’ by Michelle Magorian.

What event is the topic linked to?

What is the novel about?

Mr H and Mr W

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7 September 2018

Crucial Crew

Today we have visited Crucial Crew in Billingham. We have learnt a vast array of facts all about keeping safe in a number of situations.

We met the RNLI, Police, Fire Brigade and Road Safety team.

The questions asked and answered by the children were fantastic and showed just how…

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6 September 2018

Welcome back Year 1!

We have had a busy week settling back into school life and have started our new topic on dinosaurs. We already know lots of interesting facts about dinosaurs. Here are a few of them:

“Triceratops have horns on the top of their head.”

“Dinosaurs were alive in the Jurassic…

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5 September 2018

Welcome back!

It was great to see the children return to school with such enthusiasm yesterday on their first day back after the summer break. They were excited to be in their new classrooms and are looking forward to their learning within the new topic of ‘Volcanoes’. Watch this space for more updates on the…

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