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Today, we have been representing numbers to 100 using tens and ones. The children worked in pairs to choose a number and find different ways to represent it. They used concrete resources such as; numicon, base 10, counters, multi-link cubes and bead strings. They also drew pictorial representations to represent numbers to 100.

This morning, we have been celebrating Roald Dahl’s birthday. We have been learning about who Roald Dahl is and why he is important. We have discussed different books he wrote for children and even had chance to read some of them with our friends.

This half term we have been learning about the history of our local area – Guiseley. Jacob from Codswallop came in to teach the children about a famous local figure – Abraham Moon. Abraham Moon founded Moon’s Mills which is now known internationally for the quality fabric it produces. We started off the session by …

This year our school council have been incredibly busy. They’ve held story writing, poetry and design competitions, helped the school save energy and stay tidy, rescued a sea-turtle, made bird feeders, hosted Chill Out Tuesdays, collected for the food bank, recycled thousands of batteries for Duracell’s Big Battery Hunt, met the Mayor of Leeds…and so …

This afternoon, Heron and Dove class buddied up outside. The children worked together in small groups and played a variety of different games, including football and tennis, using the PE equipment. They had a lovely afternoon despite the rain!

Today, the children completed a carousel of practical activities about mass and using grams.

The Big Battery Hunt is over! A HUGE well done and thank you to everyone who has contributed to the competition. So many of you have brought in THOUSANDS of dead and used batteries, and so many of you have done a fantastic job of helping us to count and recycle these too. Overall, we …

Today in Herons class, we looked at the key features of a persuasive letter. We discussed the structure of the letter; greeting, opening, argument (reasons), conclusions and signature. We also looked at other features like adjectives, bossy verbs and questions (including rhetorical questions). The children worked in small groups to annotate letters from our class …

In maths, the children were divided into two large groups. Group 1 learned what mass is and how to compare mass using the following words; heavier, heaviest, lighter and lightest. Group 2 were practising their times tables on TTRockstars. Group 1 worked in pairs and chose two different objects to compare. They had to predict …

Today, we explored the emotions of the characters in our class book, The Day the Crayons Quit. We discussed which crayon was the angriest, the happiest and the saddest. We made suggestions on how Duncan could cheer his crayons up. Next, we worked in pairs or groups of 3 and used drama techniques to act …
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