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The Nursery children have been reading 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab' and discussing how many feet different creatures have.

 They then made footprints with paint, counting the footprints as they walked.

We have been revisiting addition and subtraction problem solving using our knowledge of number bonds to 100.

Knowledge: use number bonds to 100 

Skills: use the inverse to check my calculations

Vocab: inverse, number bonds

Children in Year 4 have been independently using websites to gain facts about stalactites and stalagmites.  The children will use these facts next week to write explanations and fact files in Literacy.  

Children in Year 4 have been exploring different types of cladding to decorate, strengthen and/or improve the appearance of their frame structures. 

Children in Year 4 have been working hard to develop their knowledge and understanding of technical vocabulary. 

The children used dictionaries to define the word, before placing the words into alphabetical order to create a glossary. 

Year 3 have enjoyed learning all about mummification in our Ancient Egypt topic, 'Who's the Mummy?'

In Science, we have been exploring the suitability of materials.  This experiment involved testing the strength of paper and cardboard.

Knowledge: 

Identify and compare the suitability of a variety of everyday materials, including wood, metal, plastic, glass, brick, rock, paper and cardboard…

We are using maps to locate the Jurassic coast

Knowledge:

Locate coasts in the UK

Skills: 

Identify physical features of a coast

Vocab: coast, coastline, arch, stack, shoreline, beach

We have been learning all about |Position and Direction in maths using the Beebot

Knowledge: to recognise full turns, half turns and quarter turns.

Skills: to use the language of ":forwards, backwards, left and right"

Vocab: as above

Year 4 have been consolidating their angles and triangle knowledge with lollipops sticks. 

Well Done Year 4! 

Flashback to a great Y3 Class Assembly for parents and for the whole school. Well done!  

The Nursery children went on a shape hunt around the classroom, and then sorted the shapes. We then talked about how many sides and corners each shape has, and sang some shape songs.