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This week, in Class 3, we have been learning all about riddles in English. We have explored different types of riddles and had lots of fun discussing the answers to varying riddles. In Maths, Year 3 have moved onto the topic ‘Statistics’ where we have learnt how to draw and interpret tally charts…

This week we have tried NOT to be a Scallywag like the wolves in David Melling's story! We have spoken about good hygiene and how having great manners is respectful.

The children have written sentences about good manners. We really enjoyed the story.

In maths we have looked at ways of making…

This week has been about how Chinese people celebrate Chinese New Year!

We have a had a fantastic time making lanterns and dragons.

We talked about tigers and then the children had a go at colouring pictures of tigers, trying hard to keep within the lines and colouring neatly.

In math,…

Another great week in Care Club, the children have enjoyed painting dragons and tasting various Chinese foods for Chinese New Year, playing many board games together including greedy gorilla which teaches healthy food choices, creating magical rocket wands, Playing football and other games…

We have had great fun in our Art lessons this week. Our new topic is all about sketching and colour. we have looked at different ways to make lines and used these to make a background to a picture. We have also had a go at drawing a portrait in the style of Picasso, we had lots of laughs during…

This week in Class 3, we have been learning how to use subordinate clauses and fronted adverbials within sentences which have formal language linking to the Anglo-Saxons. In Maths Year 3 have been adding and subtracting various amounts of money. We have used number lines, part whole models and bar…

This week has been a little different to usual. On Tuesday we had a workshop, with the year 6s, that was run by two members of the Manchester Camerata Orchestra. Our school is taking part in a performance with other schools to tell the story of Ronald Dahl’s The Twits. Prior to the workshop the…

We have had another exciting week in Class 5. 
The big highlights have been our 2nd session of Greenpower Racing and the Manchester Camerata workshop. Two musicians came in and wrote a song with us based on the book ‘The Twits’. It was an amazing experience and the song we created, sounds…

Another fabulous week in Care Club, we have been sponge painting the Hungry Caterpillar, using stencils to make wonderful drawings, painting our clay ornaments that we made last week, racing bikes across the mats, taking part in a Table Tennis tournament (well done winners), making bird feeders…

This week we have had lots of fun linking balances, jumps and travelling in our gymnastics sessions, as well as working in pairs or small groups to create match and mirror routines. 

We have completed our multiplication and division block in maths and will be moving on to fractions next week,…

We have been very excited about learning a new foundation subject this week. In the afternoons we have moved onto Science and the topic of plants. So far we have looked at and labelled the different parts of plants. We have also had a go at using scrap materials to make our own plants. We really…

We have had an exciting week in Class 5. The highlight has been bikeability. We have been riding around the Muga and out of school on our bikes, all the time being supported by our bike instructors. They were extremely impressed with our behaviour and how hard we focused during the two days.

In…