Year 5 debating - Should we use plastic?

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In our Year 5 class this morning, students engaged in a spirited debate on plastic use after learning about ocean pollution from videos such as Blue Planet II.

They ranked everyday plastic items by necessity and discussed the material's pros and cons.

The debate highlighted the urgent…

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Romans sin sin dex sin

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We have been writing all about the Romans today. Wow! Didn't they invent a lot things?

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Big Blue Whale

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Year 3 have been using the story by Michael Morpurgo 'This morning I Met a Whale'.

Today we created our own leaflets detailing what amazing creatures whales are and

how important it is we think about protecting their habitat.

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Year 5 and The Darkest Dark

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In our literacy sessions this half term, Year 5 have been reading the story ‘The Darkest Dark’ written by Chris Hadfield (former astronaut). 
 

We’ve learnt how, as a young boy, Chris was afraid of the dark but after watching the moon landings (1969) he conquered his fear of the dark and set…

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Year 1 World Book Day

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We have dressed up as book characters and brought in our favourite books. We buddied up with Year 5 children to share our books with each other. 

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Year 5 - Bringing our characters to life

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Today in Year 5, we used the power of AI drawing to create images for our main characters from the stories we've created in our literacy sessions.
Pupils used a special program that used artificial intelligence (AI) to generate images based on their descriptions.

The results were amazing!…

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Y6 Literacy

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We are super proud of our Y6 story writers this week. We have written our own stories with a moral message. We then created illustrations and animations of our stories. Our results were FANTASTIC!

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Year 3

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Year 3 have been writing their own version of Stone Age Boy in literacy.

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Year 1 Reading

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Thank You

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Year 3 practised their ICT skills in literacy today and wrote thank you letters to Father Antony Dutton for hosting our class at St John's Church yesterday.

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Let It Snow

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Year 3 had a little break from their regular literacy lessons today.

We read the snowy poem 'Footprints' by Shirley Hughes

and were then inspired to create our own snowy poetry

based on this morning's experience.

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Y6 Battle of Britain

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Well done Y6 - Great World War 2 work!

We have been learning about World War 2 and specifically the Battle of Britain. In particular we:

identified the different phases of the battle and also compared the strengths of the Luftwaffe and the RAF.  We even had time to play our version of the…

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