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We had a special delivery, some magic beans. We think that they might grow into beanstalks just like story Jack and the Beanstalk. 

Year 6 took advantage of the sunshine this morning, to revise their SPAG knowledge in preparation for next week’s SATs. As well as practising our grammar and punctuation, we also got to work on our map-reading skills and had some exercise at the same time!

We enjoyed using our voices and exploring poems. 

We enjoyed measuring capacity using cubes, soil and water.

We had fun measuring the mass of objects and comparing them.

Today we had a great drama workshop. We learnt a poem about a budgie in a cage and made up some actions to go with it. Some of us were brave enough to perform the poem in front of everyone else!

This afternoon, we were investigating axels for our new DT topic on vehicles. The children were given some materials and had to work out how to make a moving vehicle. It was tricky but we managed to make some good ones. We will use this knowledge to design and make our own vehicles later this…

We had a fantastic history day today learning about the Ancient Egyptians. All morning we had a workshop with Professor Tuesday, who is an expert in Egyptology. She told us about the importance of the River Nile, some of her favourite pharaohs, the timeline of Ancient Egypt and, of course, all…

We have had a really fun afternoon learning all about the ancient Greeks. Professor Tuesday told us all about the different city-states and we acted out key parts of each one. We also made a human timeline showing the main periods of history during the Ancient Greek times. She then gave us lots of…

 The children looked outside for things that grow. They found lots of plants and flowers and used the IPad to take their own photos.

Our new topic is all about things that grow. We are learning the rhyme “Mary, Mary, quite contrary.” We used natural materials to make a garden we would like to grow.

On Monday we had a lovely afternoon with our Year 5 buddies. Lambs came to visit us at school, we got to feed them some milk and learn all about them.