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Parrots September 2022
We’ve had an exciting few weeks in Parrots and I hope you’re finding your children have settled in well and have enjoyed their first few weeks of learning in Year 1 & 2. As you can imagine every day is action packed and we typically teach 7 lessons in the time they’re in. It’s a big change for…
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Parrots Week 5
This week we have been practising our Nativity on the stage! It was so much fun and we have been working so hard to perfect it! We made our Rudolph Christmas crafts and made a great profit to go back into our class; thankyou to all of the parents who bought their child's Christmas craft.
We…
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Parrots Week 3 and 4
We have had a busy couple of weeks in school; so much so, Mrs Davis hasn't been able to write much for the blog. We have been getting stuck in with creating our Tudor houses, using different materials to create the plan we had in place. We also sang at the local church, Carleton St Hildas. It was…
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Parrots Autumn 2 Week 2
This week we have enjoyed learning about Christianity for interfaith week and we have thought carefully about how to be kind for our Anti-Bullying week. We made a poster for Christianity and used the computers to conduct 'safe' searches; finding out information about the church and what is inside…
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Week 4 Fun in Parrots Class
Another interesting and exciting week in Parrots, the children are working so well, settling in and trying their very best with the work.
In Maths we have done lots of practical work with addition- part-whole models, bar models and we have even used 10 frames. We enjoyed practically working…
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Parrots Week 3
Lots more learning has taken place this week in Parrots class; we haven’t stopped! We have enjoyed going on a hunt around the field looking for natural and physical features in our school environment. We used out knowledge from Science to discuss what materials we could see to!
We have done…
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Parrots Week 2
Another busy week in Parrot’s class with lots of learning taking place! The children have settled in really well; it is such a huge step up from Reception to Year 1 so I would like to say a big well done boys and girls for showing some great resilience to all the change!
This week we have…
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Parrots Science Investigation
The children in Parrots were all scientists yesterday. Poor Teddy had a hole in his umbrella and we needed to find which would be the best material to fix it. So all of the children conducted an investigation to test whether fabric, paper, tissue or plastic would be the best material to fix…
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Parrots' compared their voice to musical instruments.
Today in music the children in Parrots sang a song just using their own beautiful voices and then they compared this sound to various musical instruments. Well done Parrots.
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Parrots' Outdoor Learning with Mrs Hicks
Today the first group of children in Parrots worked with Mrs Hicks. They behaved wonderfully and thoroughly enjoyed planting seeds in self-made paper pots - which were very effective and excellent for our environment. Well done children you did great!!
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Parrots' Art linked to Geography
The children in Parrots learnt all about the different flags for the United Kingdom. They learnt where these countries are located on a map of the UK along with which flags belong to England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Then the children used various different art techniques and re-created the…
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Parrots' Science
The children in Parrots have been exploring different materials. They have been identifying different properties of these materials and describing them based on the properties. We have discussed properties such as: absorbent, transparent, hard, smooth, soft. The children enjoyed playing the 'Guess…
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