05 Dec 2025 archive

What big eyes you have!

In Phonics, we have continued to revise the Phase 5 sounds and the harder to read words. We have been using our segmenting and blending skills to read and write words. We have also spent time thinking about sentence structure, including capital letters, full stops, finger spaces. We are encouraging the children to check their …

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Go wild!

We have worked hard on our final piece of writing about the story of Rapunzel and are proud of the results.  In Maths we worked on finding the difference using unifix blocks: Find the difference between 24 and 9. For our independent tasks we made a poster about doubling numbers and edited a piece of …

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Penguin Huddle!

Reception have really enjoyed the storybook ‘Penguin Huddle’ this week in topic lessons. We spent time making story predictions and discussed the thoughts and feelings of the characters. We then thought about what we already knew about penguins and what else we would like to find out. We researched these questions using non-fiction books and …

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A busy few weeks!

Over the past few weeks Year 5 have performed their wonderful sharing assemblies. Both classes should be very proud of themselves – lots of great acting going on! We will miss the Ancient Greek song – I bet it is stuck in everybody’s head! We have also finished writing our stories based on Athena. The …

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Animals, Art and (South) America

We are really enjoying our new art project this term.  We have chosen an animal, linked to South America and used a technique to upscale and make it bigger.  We will back it onto cardboard, collage it and eventually hope to make it stand up! We have had a successful week in maths, revisiting percentages …

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Our classrooms have become a little more festive this week, with Christmas decorations. This week in English, we have been continuing to look at the Pied Piper book. We have enjoyed reading the book, discussing its vocabulary, and making inferences about the characters. This then led to a class debate over whether the Pied Piper …

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