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With our growing knowledge of materials and their properties, we conducted an investigation to answer the question “Which materials are best to protect fragile objects.” First we discussed a range of materials, decided on three to test, conducted our investigation and recorded our results. With a…

We had a fantastic afternoon walking around Elford village today. We spotted key features of the village such as the village hall, the school and the park to tie in with our Marty Maps it Out book. We are looking forward to making some of our own maps now that we know the way around our village.

This week we have explored the art term ‘hue’. We were given two primary colours and tasked the make different hues of green. Great art skills shown by everyone. 
 

We welcomed a special guest into our class today to talk to us about their life as a child- our wonderful governor, Mrs Billingham. Thank you so much for helping to bring our history topic to life. The children asked thoughtful questions and gathered their answers. Quote of the afternoon, “I could…

Year 1 love an alien word Thursday disco! The rules are you have to show the alien words your best dance moves, zap their sound buttons then blend to read their words. So much fun and learning too!

We have really enjoyed our topic this week exploring different jobs of people who help us. We especially enjoyed our visit from a local fireman who brought us some fire fighter uniforms and helmets to try on. We shared stories about fire safety and he taught us how to check our fire alarms and…

Today we have conducted a science experiment looking at the difference in shadow length and direction at various times of the day.

Today we explored lego printing using primary colours. We explored making patterns and overlapping colours to colour mix. 

We were met with a break in on Monday. Someone with muddy feet, blond hair and who is clearly a huge fan of porridge has been in our classroom. She may have had three accomplices….one large, one medium and one small. Any thoughts?

Our science topic has been all about people who help us. We have focussed this week on dentists and looked at how to keep our teeth healthy. We used an apple to represent our teeth piercing holes in it to show what could happen to the enamel  if we didn’t brush our teeth. The children made some…

This term we have been studying a text called The Shadow Cage by Phillipa Pierce.  It is a suspense story and in our English lessons we have been looking at what makes a story really hook a reader.  We then planned our stories using the boxing up method and a storyboard.  We are really proud of…

Congratulations to all the athletes who took part in the annual cross country running event last week that was held at Richard Crosse.  16 runners from various age groups took part in the event which was made up of the 7 schools in our trust.  It was such an amazing sight to watch so many runners…