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Friday 14 March 2025 14th March 2025 The children loved meeting and holding a tortoise on Friday. They sat for ages, chatting and talking about him. Also on Friday, we 'visited' Africa, looking at how varied and beautiful the continent is. The children enjoyed learning some African dance moves and had a go at drumming. They also had the chance to explore some artifacts. Throughout the week, they also spent time making a collage, overlapping different textures and designs of paper, before showing off their ever improving cutting skills to add a creature in the foreground. In Drawing Club, the children listened to the story of 'Handa's Surprise', drawing three different adventures and learning eight new words!
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Friday 14 March 2025 Artistic Leopards! We have now finished our art topic- looking at the artist Georgia O'Keeffe. Using their knowledge of colour mixing the children painted their close-up flower sketches this week. Then, the children did their final write up of everything they learned about the artist and finally, we used our skills to sketch flowers from images.
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Friday 14 March 2025 Meerkats have a 'spring' in their step! Spring is in the air and brighter days are definitely having a positive impact on the marvellous Meerkats. So much enthusiasm for all learning this week!
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Friday 14 March 2025 Honeybees Friday 14th March 2025 What a fabulous week we have had in Honeybee Class!
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Friday 14 March 2025 Africa and Timmy the Tortoise Well I can’t quite believe we are half way through Term 4! Time flies when you are having so much fun! And fun we have had this week in Wallaby Class.
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Friday 14 March 2025 Marvelous Metre Measuring and Pretty Painted Pictures Spring is definitely in the air! Despite the cold mornings, the sun has been bright and the days are getting longer. Panda Class have worked super hard this week and should feel proud of all of their achievements. We have continued to enjoy learning lots of new and interesting things this week as well as consolidating things we have already learned.
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Friday 14 March 2025 Zebras 14.03.25 Well the children have had a very busy week of learning this week. We have been measuring in Maths using rulers and meter sticks to find things longer and shorter. We have then recorded the length checking carefully that we put the ruler in the correct place and that we write cm after the amount. Maybe you could find some things at home to measure?
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Friday 14 March 2025 Friday 14th March Woosh, this week has gone fast - just like the witch's broomstick in our drawing club story 'Room on a Broom'! We had great fun learning lots of lovely new words (clambered, magnificent, woosh, fearsome, clutch, stormy, disheveled, shriek) and enjoyed drawing the dragon, the swamp, our own magnificent broomsticks and a potion to make the dragon disappear. It is lovely to hear the children talking about their ideas and making suggestions to help others improve.
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Friday 14 March 2025 Spring is in the air! This week the weather has been so lovely that we have managed to get onto the Trim Trail for our class playtimes. It has made such a difference to our learning and meant that we can develop our climbing and running skills. We have had such a lovely amount of space to run around.
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Sunday 9 March 2025 Friday 7th March 2025 - Honeybee Class We have had a wonderful week in Honeybee Class made even sunnier now Spring is on the way!
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Friday 7 March 2025 7th March 2025 The children enjoyed dressing up for World Book Day. In class, the children described their costumes and worked together thinking of words that work with the outfits worn. In maths we have been looking at ways 9 and 10 are made and how this can be made with fingers, ten frames and on bead strings.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Meerkats in 'wordy' disguises! As I uploaded the photographs I realised what a busy week the Marvellous Meerkats have had growing their brains and being creative.
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day and Pancake Making! A fantastic second week back into term 4 continuing our topic ‘wriggle, crawl and roar’ with the story Farmer Duck. Children enjoyed learning new vocabulary including fatigued, eject, stunned and stealthy where they come up with actions to help remember the words and their meaning. In drawing club children created their own lazy farmer character, a farmer’s house for a setting and an adventure for the character to go on! They have also enjoyed farm themed activities around the classroom including making farm animals with play-doh, creating their own small world farm, observing and drawing fruit and vegetables that grow on our farms and making animal pens in the construction area.
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day and other fun! We have had another fantastic week in Zebra Class. The children looked wonderful in their different costumes for World Book Day . Thank you for all your effort in supporting them with dressing as a word!
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Friday 7 March 2025 Friday 7th March Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread man! This week we started Drawing Club and our focus text was The Gingerbread Man. In Drawing club the children learn new vocabulary and add actions to help them understand the meaning of the words. This week we had sleek, sly, scamper, delicious, pursue, bellow, astonished and halt. The children then draw a picture linked to a character, setting or adventure. The last stage of Drawing club is to add a code. The code then makes something happen. For example on our adventure day, the children drew their ideas for how to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river without getting wet or being eaten by the sly fox. They had lots of different ideas, including building him a raft and helping him to fly over the river. The children have then written their own codes, such as 'up and away' to make the magic happen.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Fish sitters! Doesn’t it make such a difference when the sun shines! It has made everyone more cheerful than usual! This week Giraffe class have welcome 4 new fish to the class. We are looking after them and have to make sure we feed them each morning.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Hello Sunshine! How lovely has it been to see the sunshine again and feel a little bit of warmth from the sun hitting our skin? The children have thoroughly enjoyed being able to run around at playtimes and lunchtimes without always needing their coats on, and our walk down to the swimming pool on Tuesday was glorious!
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Friday 28 February 2025 28th February 2025 It was lovely to see everybody back and refreshed ready for the start of Term 4. The year is flying by! Our topic for this term is 'Wriggle, Crawl and Roar'. This week we have looked at the story of 'What the Ladybird Heard' and later in the term will we read other great books such as 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. We have also looked for the first signs of spring, made collections of 9, started new Read, Write, Inc groups and have collaborated in small groups and as a whole class!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Great first week back! Welcome back Wallaby Class and what a lovely week it has been! We have had very mixed weather either very wet or lovely and sunny! When it has been sunny, Wallaby class have made the most of being outside playing in the water area, enjoying the Veterinary Surgery and playing on the trikes.
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Friday 28 February 2025 We are inspired! It was lovely to welcome everyone back this week and to begin our fantastic new art topic on Georgia O'Keeffe. We have learnt that she was an American artist who took her inspiration from natural objects around her. So we decided to try and take our inspiration from natural objects in our environment. We then used the leaves we collected to practice our sketching and shading skills. Georgia O'Keeffe also loved to use bold vibrant colours to paint her pictures, so we then looked at painting by recognising the three primary colours and using them to create secondary colours.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Arty Leopards! The children have settled back into term 4 amazingly and have shown a great attitude to get stuck straight into their learning!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Friday 28th February - Honeybee Class Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful break!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Friday 28th February We have settled back in quickly following the half term and have started a new topic looking at the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. We started the unit by looking at some of Georgia's art work and discussed what we liked/disliked about her paintings. Then we chose a piece of her work and used our sketching skills to have a go at copying it. On Wednesday, we looked at colour mixing and discovered that when you mix primary colours together you can make secondary colours. The primary colours are red, yellow and blue. Take a look at the photos to see what happened when we mixed them.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Arty Meerkats! Special news to share, Mrs Allen has had a baby boy – the children have seen some gorgeous pictures that Mrs Allen kindly shared with us and we all agree that he’s just adorable – a big Meerkat welcome to Baby Allen.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Welcome Back to Term 4 Welcome back to Term 4 in Giraffe Class. Hopefully you had a restful break and haven’t been too blown away by the half term weather. We are all looking forward to the sunshine, fingers crossed!
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