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The Year 3/4 children had a fabulous morning at Avenham Park this week. They collected data through sketching, questioning and recording information on a tally chart. They worked hard to gather all the information they needed and showed our Christian value 'responsibility' throughout the morning.…

In English, we are learning about the plot of Shakespeare's famous tragedy, Romeo and Juliet. We created actions for the different characters and then retold the plot through freeze frames. Take a look and see if you can guess which scenes we did.

As it’s Science Week, Y3/4 will be having extra science lessons this week. Today, we have been investigating the process of cleaning water and why clean water is so important to people.

The Reception children have been busy in our woodland role play area, telling stories with the animal puppets. 
We have been reading The Gruffalo this week, and they are sure that he is hiding somewhere close! 
The animals are feeling a bit frightened, so they have a campfire and toast…

In science we have been learning about properties of materials. As part of this we have looked at what a reversible change is (one where a material will return to its original state) and irreversible changes (one where the material will not return to its original state). We had lots of fun making…

On Wednesday, we had a different Maths lesson. For starters, we were in the hall--which was great fun--and then we had our parents in with us too! The Year 5s were starting a new decimals unit and working on numbers with two decimal places and the Year 6s were finishing off a unit on algebra,…

The whole school took part in an indoor athletics competition today. The Y3/4 children worked together as a team with other members of their class in races in order to improve their understanding of a relay race. They worked hard and remembered our Christian values supporting each other to try…

Year 3/4 were getting into character this week by hot seating different people in our book ‘The Witches’. They prepared questions for each character, then took it in turns to pretend to be that character and answer the questions. Their answers were fantastic and they really started to understand…

We have been learning a dance and are going to perform it for the rest of the school. It’s been lots of fun!

In DT, the Infants have been learning about wheels and axles! 

We spent time exploring different vehicles and objects that used wheels and axles, looking at how they fit together. We also looked at wheels and axles that did not work properly, and used our problem-solving skills to figure out…

We had a visit from our local fire service, reminding us about fire safety at home. The told us to make sure we have a plan to escape just in case of a fire and to make sure we check our smoke alarms at home. We also learned about keeping safe on roads too.

Year 3/4 have been having so much fun this week creating Christmas decorations for our classroom. We have been learning about accuracy and precision and the importance of creativity during this busy time of year.