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25 June 2021

Story telling puppets

our art this half term is making puppets. We have been working hard with our sewing but you will have to wait a bit longer to see the finished results. Our card stick puppets were much easier to make. We are going to use them to help us retell our class story.  

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25 June 2021

Reason to write...

Our new topic ‘Old Favourites’ has got off to a great start with some really beautiful writing from Year 1.  They were so enthusiastic to share information about their favourite stories and toys that it has given them a real purpose for their writing and has really motivated them to produce…

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7 June 2021

Fabulous Topic work

I thought you might like to see the display of the children’s super work from our plants topic. There was so much beautiful work that I had to make little boxes so everyone could see all of their great work. The children should feel really proud when they see their work in the hall.

Here is a…

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14 May 2021

Odysseus and the Cyclops storyboards

 

I can’t wait to read the stories which will be created with the storyboards! 

 

Well ill done Team5

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16 April 2021

Growing a beanstalk...

Hopefully the children have told you all about our mysterious seeds. After a lot of thoughtful discussion we decided to plant them for the weekend as there would be no one in school.  Mr Pickersgill is on standby incase a beanstalk really does grow.  The children made some great warning signs and…

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12 October 2020

Wonderful World

As you may of heard from the children, we have created our very own Year1 version of the song Wonderful World. The children have really worked hard to think of what they love about the world, and what makes it wonderful. Each child has drawn, helped to write and sung this beautiful song, and I am…

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25 September 2020

Out and about in nature.

This week, despite the weather, we have been trying to get out and about and explore nature.  We have been gaining first hand experience to write our own out and about poems.  We used all our senses and thought of lots of great describing words for our poem.  We also found lots of creative ways to…

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15 September 2020

How does it feel to be back in school?

As part of our topic ‘Here we are’, we have been talking about how it feels to be back in school.  It was great to hear the children say how much they were enjoying being back in school and how important seeing their friends was to them.  Lots of them talked about missing family and feeling tired…

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17 January 2020

Investigating Coral Reefs

This week we have been investigating the creatures that live in the coral reefs and finding out what coral is.  We have been drawing and painting the creatures that live on the reef as well as having a go at modelling coral with play dough.  We have written facts that we already knew and spent…

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10 January 2020

Amazing Adjectives

This week we have been describing the setting from our new book. At first we thought the story would happen in the small, quiet town overlooking the brilliant blue ocean but we have now realised the story is happening beneath the surface of the warm shallow water!

 We have used lots of…

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11 September 2019

Nouns Everywhere!

This week we have started to read our Power of Reading text 'Stone Age Boy'. We have been identifying nouns and verbs in sentences, constructing our own expanded noun phrases and looking at how we can improve word choices to make our descriptions of settings…

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