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14 November 2024

Origami ‘Chatterboxes’ in English.

Did you know that a tiger’s yawn smells like popcorn?

Today in English, the children completed research on tigers as we work towards writing non-chronological reports next week. After completing their research using our Chromebooks, the children presented their fun facts using (handmade)…

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8 November 2024

Learning About Classification

Today in science, we learnt about classification and taxonomy. The children designed their very own classification chart to sort different sweets!

 

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24 October 2024

Western Approaches Trip

Calling all able people! Join the Royal Navy and do you bit for the war effort! 

 

Today, the children from Year 6 became evacuees and travelled to the Western Approaches museum in Liverpool. We learnt about Liverpool’s vital role in the defence of Britain and the Battle of the Atlantic. It…

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17 October 2024

Can Street Food save us?

Design Technology - Can Street Food Save Us?

Yesterday, the children made their very own healthy burritos. As part of our unit on researching and creating traditional street food from around the world, the children thought about the nutritional benefits of the various ingredients used. We…

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14 October 2024

Preparing for our Writeaway

Preparing for our Writeaway

The children worked in groups to oblate ideas on what may have happened to one of our key characters. To finish our unit on Star of Fear, Star of Hope - the children will be retelling the story from the point of view of another character.

 

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14 October 2024

Music: Songs from World War 2

In our current music unit, we are looking at songs from World War 2. We have been listening to the famous song: White Cliffs of Dover and have been learning how to read different styles of notation. 


 

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4 October 2024

Self Portraits

Today, we completed our unit on drawing by adding some finishing touches to our self portraits inspired by the legendary Frida Kahlo.

 

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1 October 2024

Subject Revolution

The Dark Code! 

Year 6 were tasked with a challenge this morning - to crack the codes and defeat the Robotrons! We came to school today to find that we had been invaded and had to work quickly and efficiently to crack several codes and send the Robotrons back to their own dimension. 

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25 September 2024

Using numberlines to represent large numbers

Numberlines: A very useful tool

Today in maths, Y6 looked at using numberlines to represent VERY large numbers. The children investigated how to find the mid-point of a numberlines along with deciding any intervals that may (or may not) be marked. 

 

“Numberlines help us to measure and…

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23 September 2024

Spanish - Days of the Week/Months of the Year

¡Hola! Bienvenido a nuestro blog.

Today in Spanish, the children have been looking back at the days of the week and months of the year. We are working towards being able to say and write our date of birth.

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23 September 2024

Anatomy of the eyeball

Learning about how our eyes work

As part of our topic on light, today we learnt about the different parts of our eyes and their functions. We worked in pairs to correctly label scientific drawings.

Mia said, “I’ve learnt today that the different parts of the eye all have a special job…

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20 September 2024

Friday ERIC time

Everyone Reading in Class 

After a long and fun-packed week of learning, there’s nothing better than relaxing on a Friday afternoon with out favourite books

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