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This week in Parrots
Please look at the photographs showing what we have been doing this week and leave your comments! We have impressed Mrs Claydon with our work on data handling: we sorted information given to us; we collected our own information and presented it in tally charts/tables; we sorted presents for Father…
Category: Parrots
Tricky word hopscotch
We are continuing to learn our tricky words, both indoors and out! The children love playing tricky word hopscotch, challenging themselves to read words faster each time.
Category: Ducklings
Exploring ice
Today some of the children braved the cold and went outside to search for hailstones. The children discussed how it felt and the effects of holding it in their warm hands. We even had a mini snowball fight!
Category: Ducklings
Our funny Elf
Last night we think that Lucky had a disco tea party. When we arrived this morning we found Lucky having a tea party with Teddy and Robbie Robin. It looks like they had fun and they had some tasty food and drinks. We think they have been eating mince pies.
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What do you think Lucky…
Category: Robins
Problem Solving Day in Herons
Today was maths problem solving day and we loved it in Herons class.
We had to solve the problem of sorting out the natural materials outside into a pictogram. We sorted out the leaves, bark, twigs and stones.
We also had the problem of interpreting our data from our tally chart. We needed…
Category: Herons
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Owls Outdoor Homework
Part of Owls homework this week was to go on an outdoor walk and observe the things that you see at this time of the year. Below is a selection of the photos that children sent into school.
What did you notice about the outdoors at this time of year? Is this season your favourite? Why/why…
Category: Owls
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Problem Solving in Hawk Class
Well done Hawks for some fantastic problem solving. You all worked well to a budget and managed to recalcualte when given specific items to buy, applying your methods accurately.
Category: Hawks
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*Doves' Problem Solving Day
The children in Doves were presented with a problem: Father Christmas’ toy workshop has broken down and there are only 19 days left before Christmas day!!! Father Christmas needs your help. You are tasked with: Finding as many toys as you can and adding up the price to see how much you have…
Category: Doves
This week in Parrots
We have had fun this week using our measuring skills to help Mrs Hicks cut lots of sticks to the correct length for our huge Christmas pudding! We also solved problems using length to create straw trees with Miss Ashall. We enjoyed putting amounts of money into coin bags and filling out paying in…
Category: Parrots
Buddy eats the Advent chocolate!
Buddy had a mission sent by Father Christmas to deliver Advent calendars, but when we turned up to school there was chocolates all over the classroom floor. We could not believe that he ate the chocolates. Luckily, the cakes sent for Miss H and Mrs C hadn't been…
Category: Herons
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Halifax Bank visit Herons
The children in KS1 have had a fantastic day with the people from Halifax Bank. The children had a brilliant workshop learning all about were money comes from and the sensible ways of using money. We listened to a story and now understand the importance of saving our money. The children had the…
Category: Herons
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Buddy the Elf!
We have been very busy this week at Little Chicks! We have continued with our topic of nursery rhymes, were we have been looking at rhyming words, discovering rhythm by clapping the syllables in our names, and singing lots of different nursery rhymes. Outside in the water, Incy Wincy spider got…
Category: Little Chicks