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Fantastic Festive Week
Wow! What a wonderful week it has been.
We have been very busy taking part in lots of Christmas activities. The Doves have worked so hard.
We enjoyed our walk to the local park to record our Christmas Carol. Look out for this going live on our school website next week.
We…
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Year 3/4 Egyptian Day
We are having an Egyptian Day on Friday 3rd December. This will be to celebrate the end of our amazing topic.
If you would like to dress up for this special day you can come to school in Egyptian fancy dress. Please don’t worry about going out and buying a costume. You might like to come to…
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Egyptian Death Masks
Over the week we will be working hard to create our own death masks.
This afternoon, we prepared our resources, cut out our mask shape, added some outlines and began creating our pattern. We are very excited to see the masks when they are finished!
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Ancient Egypt
This week we have loved learning more about the Ancient Egyptians!
We have discovered why the River Nile was so important, we have learned about Howard Carter and his AMAZING discovery, we have learned about the Egyptian Gods and we have finally found out who King Tutankhamun…
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Roald Dahl Day
Today is Roald Dahl Day!
In Doves we have enjoyed talking about our favourite Roald Dahl books and learning about his fantastic career. Can you remember any facts about him?
This afternoon we enjoyed talking about Charlie and the chocolate factory. We talked about the story, watched a…
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Welcome Back!
Wow! What a fantastic week we have had back in school!
I am so proud of all the Doves. Everyone has come back to school with a big smile and ready to learn.
We have been extremely busy getting to know all of our new class friends, we have drawn self portraits and decided on our new class…
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Sports Day Dove Class
Doves had a fabulous sports day on Tuesday; the weather was hot but the children kept hydrated and enjoyed cheering on their teams in the shade. Mrs Davis and Mr Powell even joined in!
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Fantastic Field Day
Last Friday we had a wonderful day on the field; we went on an angle hunt, a leaf hunt (identifying leaves and seeing if we could work out what tree it was), minibeast hunts so we could classify any that we found! We also enjoyed following tracks and creating our own in the afternoon. This week we…
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Doves Week on TIME
WHAT TIME IS IT ?
This week in Dove class we have spent lots of time working on seconds, minutes and hours as well as looking at time duration and working out problems linked to analogue and digital clocks. We have played games, created number lines (linked to the hours on the clock) and…
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Doves Week
This week we have been non-stop in class and it has been so much fun! Firstly, it has been our outdoor learning week, so we have been able to do some planting and learning with Mrs Hicks. We have also conducted an experiment, dressing jacket potatoes in different materials to see which one was the…
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Doves Cricket
This week, Mr Thorpe organised for a cricket club to come in to school and give us a taster session for what we could expect when learning to play cricket. Even Mrs Davis had a go! We have also enjoyed using census data relating to Thornton-Cleveleys population over the years and inputting this…
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Doves - Art week - Modern and Roman patterns
This week we looked at patterns and textures and hunted around school and home to find interesting textures.
We then studied Laura Slater's modern patterns and had a go at creating our own.
Finally we looked at patterns on pottery in ancient Rome and designed our own amphoraes.
Here is a…
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