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23 July 2024

Bouncy Castle Fun!

Thank you for a wonderful morning on the bouncy castle! 

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17 July 2024

Let’s go fly a kite!

We have had great fun this morning finishing off our ‘Carp Kites’ in DT. The children spent yesterday afternoon decorating their kites with tissue paper and this morning we constructed them. The children have had lots of fun flying their kites around our playground! Great work Year 1 and 2! Your…

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11 July 2024

Getting ready for year 3!

Year 2 are proving how ready they are for year 3. Today they have been practising subtracting with and without exchanging. They used base 10 and wrote on the tables to help them grasp the tricky concept of exchanging. They then moved on to their times tables and practised writing these. Finally…

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28 June 2024

Which material is the stretchiest and strongest?

We really enjoyed investigating our enquiry question in science today!

We tested lots of materials from marshmallows to tights to see which were the stretchiest and then evaluated our results.

 

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26 June 2024

Year 1 and 2 entertain royalty

The children in Year 1 & 2 had a wonderful afternoon learning more about Queen Elizabeth l and King Henry Vlll, as part of our history. They were given the task of acting as ‘jesters’, ‘kings’ or ‘queens’ to entertain each other. The royal jesters had a great time on stage entertaining our royal…

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21 June 2024

Which materials are opaque and which materials are transparent?

Key stage 1 have explored the meanings of opaque and transparent. They were set a challenge from NASA to find the best material for curtains to block out the sun on their next space mission. What fun we had exploring this question!

 

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21 June 2024

Shapes, shapes, shapes!

Reception have had a super week exploring 2D shapes. They have identified the number of sides of common 2D shapes, explored shapes that have been rotated and applied their knowledge to make tangram pictures. Fabulous work!

 

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14 June 2024

Which materials float and which materials sink?

Reception have continued their science learning studying the oceans. Today they have thought about which objects might float and which objects might sink. They talked about the materials the objects were made of and made predictions before testing them out. Super science work…

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14 June 2024

Which materials are absorbent?

Years 1 & 2 have been investigating the question “Which materials are absorbent?” They learnt how to conduct a fair test, interpret results and make a conclusion. Super science work everyone!

 

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14 May 2024

Reception visit Stickman

What a wonderful day we have had at Arboretum! Our Reception children were so excited to see Stickman this morning. We were so lucky that the rain stopped before we visited him and his friends. Here are a selection of photos of our fabulous day. Well done Reception! You were all superstars and I…

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13 May 2024

We are Stickman ready!

Our last two science lessons of this half term are all about ‘Stickman’. The children have made their own stick people and dressed them in some wonderful outfits.
Today we have immersed ourselves in the story, all ready for our exciting trip tomorrow. Well done Reception!

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13 May 2024

Exploring numbers to 20 and beyond

Our Reception children have started their new maths topic this week - To 20 and beyond. They have had lots of fun exploring how to make different numbers using a variety of maths equipment. Great work everyone!

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