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Year 3/4 have had lots of fun today raising money for Red Nose Day. They especially enjoyed sharing their best jokes with each other.

The Year 5/6 boys' football team were in action at Bradley Development Centre yesterday. They began their tournament with a 1-1 draw against Scartho Juniors, with a fantastic goal from Braydon. Game 2 saw them beat Signhills A with Braydon netting once again. Game 3, against Signhills B finished…

To celebrate British Science Week, we have been investigating materials. We pretended to be the Big Bad Wolf to test the strength of different materials. We made predictions about which we thought would be the strongest materials. We then tried to blow away bricks, pom poms, chocolate, paper, wood…

Confidently demonstrating to the rest of the class how to use standard method to work out the difference between two numbers. 

Fantastic collaboration between partners today in maths when learning how to work out the perimeter of a shape.

Today’s maths was a practical session getting to grips with tenths and hundredths. The children worked together to create patterns for their partners to find the fractions. 

The children had a lot of fun learning how to do a half and a full turn in gymnastics. They then challenged each other to see who could jump the furthest. They learnt that swinging their arms and bending their knees helped with this. 

We have mastered the art of using compasses to draw circles. We then created patterns inspired by traditional navigational compass designs and mandala patterns. The next tricky stage was to transfer our designs to polystyrene press print. Once our design was ready we selected our colours and…

Today all classes in Y5/6 took part in an interesting and enjoyable online lesson with Amy from the WWF (World Wildlife Fund). She talked to us about how the planet is heating up and how this is affecting life for all plants and animals - including humans. We built on what we have been learning…

We have enjoyed learning about Traditional Tales. This week we have been reading Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The children have enjoyed acting out the story, making bears out of play dough, trying porridge and writing an apology letter to the bears from Goldilocks.

We have been taking part in lots of games with the Parachute, it was so much fun! We listened to instructions to changes places with a friend and even pretended it was a spaceship and hid underneath it!    We also enjoyed singing whilst playing some ring games and had to take turns to go in the…

We loved World Book Day! We all came dressed up as our favourite book character and shared our books with the rest of the class. We’ve also been learning all about traditional tales and acting them out with role play props.