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A trip to Cape Town!

This week, Year 2 have written their very own sequel to a book that we read about a Grandad who goes on an adventure in a camper van. Children imagined that they travelled to South Africa and visited sites such as Table Mountain, the Orange River and Cape Town. We used our learning in Geography …

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Hundreds of Howard Carters!

What a week, we hope the children have had a lot of fun and told you all about our trip to the Tutankhamun Experience! It was so exciting to learn about the artefacts of the Pharaohs, and take a virtual trip through the Egyptian afterlife. Everyone (including the adults!) had a lot of fun with …

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Sunny Days

This week, children have been learning about different methods we can use to divide in maths. We have made greeat progrerss so far! Learning times tables can help us to divide as it is the inverse. In Geography, we have started to learn about South Africa. We have used the Atlas to find out more.  …

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Bridges, buns and (Easter) baskets

A big thank you to the sun for shining on our last day of this term.  Let’s hope this glorious weather continues for the next two weeks. This week we have found some budding scientists and engineers in Year 2! In Science, as part of our learning about materials and their properties, we designed and …

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Fair tests and times tables

This week in  Science, Year 2 have set up a fair test to investigate how durable materials are. We used sandpaper to rub each material and discovered that fabrics such as denim were more durable than thin fabrics such as polyester.   In Maths we have been learning strategies to help us remember the  2’s, …

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Volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes!

Volcanoes have featured heavily in our learning this week! In Geography we learnt about the features of a volcano, how it erupts and the hazards associated with that. The children all became Tranio from our book ‘Escape from Pompeii’ and wrote powerful diary entries imagining they were there when Vesuvius erupted. Everyone wrote in first …

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Visiting the Cathedral

This week, both classes in Year 2 have enjoyed a wonderful visit to the Cathedral here in St Albans. We were reminded of our local history and how our city got its name.  Children really enjoyed the morning and were very well behaved. We all enjoyed dressing up to act out the story of St …

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World Book Day!

Where are the weeks going?  Time is certainly flying in Year 2 and things are looking up now that it is light in the mornings and the sun is shining! A highlight of the week has definitely been  ‘World Book Day’.  It was so lovely to see the excitement on everyone’s faces wearing their costumes …

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Happy World Book Day!

We’ve made it to the end of a very exciting week in Year 4! Year 4’s big event of the week was the trip to the Guru Nanak Gurdwara in Luton as part of our RE understanding of Sikhi. We were so impressed by how hard all of the children worked to be respectful as …

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Reception become authors!

We have been very busy in Reception this week as the children became authors and wrote their own books all about dinosaurs! They each choose different dinosaurs to draw and write a fact they had learnt about this dinosaur. We focused on using our segmenting and blending strategies for writing such as ‘robot arms’. We …

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