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Living or dead?

It has been great to see everyone back and eager to learn after the half term break. In Science, we have started the unit Living Things and their Habitats. This week, we identified a specific criteria that allowed us to scientifically identify if something is living, dead or never alive. We now know that for …

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Autumn has arrived!

Autumn has arrived in Year 3; we learnt the meaning of new words such as umber and translucent to help us write acrostic poems. We are very proud of them. In Maths we continued to work on written column addition and subtraction with exchanging across tens and hundreds. Your child has a sheet of sums …

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Autumn leaves are falling!

Sequencing and planning has been the focus in English this week. Last week we explored what makes up a sentence such as nouns, verbs and adjectives so that this week we could extend that further with more adventurous vocabulary for our pirate story and we’ve even used a thesaurus to help.  We are ready to …

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Stone Age investigations

Week 6 started with a very interesting investigation into what people ate in the Stone Age. We found some leftover Stone Age food and took a close look at it. Each group created a poster of all the different foods we found: oats, grains, mini apples, sweetcorn and also lots of different types of leaves …

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A time travelling week!

We travelled back to the Stone Age in English this week. We wrote a diary entry imagining we were the boy in Stone Age Boy. Everyone loved writing about everything they saw and experienced.  As we wrote we thought about our word choices and tried really hard to make our tall letters tall and small …

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Sustainable Day 2024

This year our focus was on saving energy and understanding more about waste. The Eco-Committee discussed a range of possible tasks and agreed on each class having an energy free lesson at some point during the day and a lesson all about waste. When we got back together it was so wonderful to hear all …

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A week of music and art!

What a great week we’ve had in Year 3. We worked hard at our rehearsal for our recorder performance, which I think you will all agree was amazing ! Well done everyone and a big thank you to our wonderful music teachers. We hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. Then later in …

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If you go down to the woods today…

Last week, Year 4 had a wonderful time on our trip to Epping Forest. We had fantastic weather for being outdoors enjoying all the beauty that Epping Forest has to offer. We all took part in minibeast hunting and identifying in the grasslands as well as learning how to survive by building a shelter and …

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Cathedral visit.

This week, Crimson and Scarlett class went on a special visit to the Cathedral in St Albans.  We were greeted by a Roman solider who taught us all about the armor he was wearing. We then role-played the story of Alban. We all had a wonderful time and learnt so much more about our local …

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A day at Cairo City School!

Well done this week to Gold Class, who completed their presentation assembly and wowed us all with facts and laughs. Everyone loved the chance to see what a day in Egyptian school (CCS -Cairo City School) looked like, and we are especially proud of everyone for still trying so hard despite a few technical issues! …

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