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Is it half term already?
The half term after Christmas seems to fly, but the children have worked extremely hard during the last five weeks. We are hoping for drier weather soon so that we can all enjoy the school grounds, but who knows. (We suspect that rain and mud is actually more enjoyable than sunny weather for a Read More
Read newsYear 1 – 09.02.24
Phonics This week the children have revisited the split digraphs: i_e, o_e, and u_e. The focus words this week were: oh and out. Please continue to practise these at home. Maths During our maths sessions, the children have continued to look at addition within 20. The focus this week was doubling. They have worked Read More
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English We have loved reading George’s Marvellous Medicine. The children thoroughly enjoyed listening and reading along to the story. Yesterday we wrote some fantastic reviews of the story. children wrote about their favourite parts and characters. Perhaps you could try another of Roald Dahl’s books at home? Let us know if you would like Read More
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Phonics The children have continued to practise the phase 5 phonemes. This week we have focused on: au, ey, a_e, and e_e. We have looked at the tricky words ‘what‘ and ‘when‘. Please continue to practise reading and writing these tricky words at home. English This week we enjoyed the story ‘Katie and the Read More
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Science This week the children have been exploring adaptation. We have been looking at Charles Darwin’s finches from the Galapagos Islands and finding out why their beaks were different shapes. The children conducted an investigation using a range of ‘beaks’ to find out which was best suited to certain types of food. Please see Read More
Read newsYear 4 Blog 26.1.24
Maths We have continued with our multiplication and division topic in Maths this week, focussing mainly on formal methods of multiplication. We looked at how to multiply 2- and 3-digit numbers by a 1-digit number using a column method. Have a look at the video to recap this method. EnglishIn English this week, we Read More
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Women! Learn to make munitions This week in History we have continued our work on the Barnbow Lasses. Year 6 enjoyed researching some local history and finding out about the brave women who worked in the first National Filing and Munitions factory of WW1 located near Crossgates in Leeds. In groups the children made Read More
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Good evening parents and carers, Well what a great week in Year 5! In Maths we have been mastering long multiplication. Homework has been set on Mathletics. Science In science we have finished working on Forces, creating pulleys to lift objects. We have now begun a new topic on the properties of materials. The Read More
Read news“Give to me a fulcrum on which to plant my lever, and I will move the world.”
Science Our Science work this week was looking at levers and how they provide mechanical assistance. 5HB investigated what happens if you lengthen a lever, using newton meters to measure the effort required to move a bottle of fruit juice. I was very impressed with the methodical way the class worked, especially when some Read More
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English This week, we have started exploring our new class text, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We began by using clues from the front cover to help Predicting Pip make accurate suggestions about the characters and plot. We think that a boy called George is going to create a magical medicine for an old woman using Read More
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