Super Similes

Today, we have been writing similes to describe Mr Tiger from The Tiger Who Came to Tea.

 

 

Here are some of our wonderful similes...

 

Mr Tiger is as big as a giant. By Nicole and Oliver R.

Mr Tiger is as big as Blackpool Tower. By Maya and Leo.

Mr Tiger is as big as a…

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Fundamental Skills Fun

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Today we have had Fleetwood Football club in school to play some games with the Year Two children. They have been great fun and helped us practise our skills too.

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Our Learning...

We have been extremely busy in Herons.
Over the last two weeks we have been learning all about non-fiction books!
The Herons were reading detectives to identify what special features information books include and they have also been learning to write facts, in order to teach the…

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Dodge skills

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Our PE lesson today we practiced our dodging skills. We jumped from one foot to another trying to move away from the beanbag. Everyone worked in pairs; one person was the dodger and one was the thrower.

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Special Delivery

On Tuesday, our first day back after the half term, Herons received some very special post...

 

As part of our Julia Donaldson work last half term, Herons decided to write a letter to Julia, to find out more about the author who writes some of our favourite stories.

 

We all got very…

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Happy Half Term!!!

I can't believe we have reached the end of our first half term in Herons already. We have had a wonderful and incrediby busy 6 weeks and I have been so impressed with how all of the Herons have settled into their new class. 
 
Over the last few weeks we have been doing lots of wonderful…

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Our trip to Blackpool Zoo!

What a wonderful day...

On Thursday 8th October, all of us in Key Stage 1 visited Blackpool Zoo as part of our Topic work. We have been doing lots of fantastic learning about different animals, their habitats and their body structures. So we were extremely excited to visit the zoo and learn…

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Homework!

KS1 Homework Menu

 

The homework 'menu' has been sent home with the children today (Monday 21st September). The 'menu' style format enables the children to choose which homework tasks they would like to do.

 

If you do not have a homework menu, please let me know and I can get another…

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A wonderful first week!

Wow! What a busy week it has been. I am extremely proud of all of the Herons this week, the children have settled into their new class brilliantly and they have all been working really hard, getting to know their new routines. I have been so impressed!

Thank you to all of you who brought a…

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Watch out Alan Sugar, here come the Heron's business teams!

Today we received a very important, hand delivered parcel, Jamie Oliver has set us a challenge! We are to create an exciting, new, healthy snack to sell to our friends next week during healthy living week. First we had to think about the task and what skills we have that would help us complete the…

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A Visitor

~~We all enjoyed a visit from Mrs Cassidy today, she was positively blooming!  It was lovely to see her and we were very excited to hear her special news, she is expecting her third baby in September!  We were a little bit sad to hear that she won’t be teaching us again this year as she needs to…

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Art

As part of our topic, The Great Outdoors, we have been studying the work of the artist Andy Goldsworthy.  Last week we worked together with the rest of the children from KS1 to create pieces of art simliar to that of Andy Goldsworthy.  Do you like them?

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