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Coach Steve is coming in this half term to help teach us the fundamentals in cricket. Not only are we working on throwing, hitting and catching, but also to be a good sport and show the ‘ spirit of cricket’. 

This week we took our first look at the operation of division.  Here we are exploring division as 'sharing'.

Today in French we had the opportunity to have simple conversations with Monsieur Pouey and Mademoiselle Lemaire who are visiting from France. We practised talking about the weather, describing ourselves and where we live as well as what foods we like. It was great to improve our…

In RE we have been learning about the Jewish Passover, which celebrates the freedom of the Jewish people from slavery in Egypt. Today we recapped the story and re-enacted the traditional Seder meal. We learnt about the significance and symbolism of the different food items that are…

Coach Steve has been coming in to teach us some cricket skills in P.E. this term.  We have learnt to hold the bat properly and to strike a ball off a tee or cone.  We have also brushed up on our rolling and underarm throwing skills.

We made masks and either a cape or a shield when we celebrated together on our Superhero Day. Then we went flying through the sky! Can you recognise us behind our masks?

At long last the materials arrived so we could make our plasticine relief faces.  Can you tell who is who?

We used multi-link cubes to take a first look at multiplication.  We learnt about multiplication as 'groups of' and made groups of cubes before writing the number sentences.

Just a few of our Christmassy themed craft activities for you all to see this week.

As it's nearly Christmas, we thought we'd treat ourselves by decorating some biscuits.  They were delicious apparently!!

We have been studying the exciting story of the adventurer Shackleton. In art we have also been looking at creating perspective in a picture through use of colour as well as the size of objects. We painted these pictures based on Shackleton's journey across South Georgia and added a family motto…

Today we had our annual Christmas party.  Great fun was had by all as we played many Christmassy games including the Chocolate Game, the Nativity Dash and, of course, Johnny Smartie!