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Reception have started an after school Cookery club! On Wednesday we prepared ourselves by washing our hands with soap and water and put on our aprons and chef hats. We each made a pitta bread pizza ready for our tea that night. Whilst we were making our pizza we all tried the ingredients to see…

They're beginning to grow and move about now! We on the way to butterflies!

Last week, we read the story 'We're Going on a Bear Hunt'. We learnt some facts about bears and thought about where we could look for information on bears. On Thursday, we went on our very own bear hunt and found a bear in the woods! We brought it back with us and let it have dinner with the…

Year 1 have enjoyed their music lesson, we sang songs and listened to the beat, we added different actions to the song listening carefully for the right time to do them.

Year 1 have enjoyed designing and making a model toy with moving parts. We designed our model on paper and labelled what moving parts it would have and what materials we would use. We had to think about how we could make the parts of our model move. Some children chose split pins, some chose rods…

Well not quite yet! Our butterflies have arrived but as you can see we have a fair way to go before we are fluttering off into the woods. Will keep updates coming on the growth of them.

We will now use our ideas to write a discussion text on whether deforestation should continue. Watch this space!

We held a debate to discuss whether deforestation is necessary and should continue. We looked at reasons for and against before working with our partners to produce our points to be raised in the discussion. Some clear ideas on both sides were put forward and some counter arguments were launched…

Today we used Espresso Block Coding to construct code, moving characters and objects within the program.

Having fun in our dance lesson today.

4 Poplar have been using dot work to create Aboriginal Art as part of their Australia topic. We saw some amazing pieces of art which were unique to each child and what interests them! There are hidden meanings within aboriginal art... Can you spot any from our class?

In Design and Technology, we practised how to sew a running stitch, using neat and evenly spaced stitches to join fabric together to make felt heart cushions.