Bikeability
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Over the last week, Year 6 have been learning to ride with the Bikeability team. The class have shown amazing attitudes and great resilience throughout the sessions. Keep being incredible Year 6!
Year 6 take on Orienteering
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Year 6 have had a wonderful day at Ulley, taking part in a series of orienteering challenges. The class worked extremely well in their groups to find the 15 different points around the lake; putting their map reading skills to good use! Well done Year 6!
Orienteering Challenges!
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Y5 and Y6 took part in orienteering challenges at Ulley as part of their Adventurous activity work. They completed map reading skills and worked really hard with team work skills to complete challenges! #wetakerisks#wetakeonchallenges#theashwoodway
Y1/Y6 Buddy Sessions
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In our first buddy session of the academic year, Year 1 and Year 6 met with each other to share stories and to talk about how to fill in their reading diaries. Mrs Smith and Miss Webb were incredibly impressed with how the children worked together. “I enjoyed listening to my buddy read to me” […]
Place Value Knowledge with Year 1
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So far this week in Year 1 we have been playing lots of games to support our place value knowledge. We enjoyed creating our own snakes and ladders game using our 100 square carpet, playing bowling and recognising the numbers that we knocked down and identifying the different numbers that the dominos represent.
Y3/5 Reading Buddies
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During the first buddy session of the year, Year 5 spent time listening to our new Year 3 class reading. Year 3 were eager to read to their buddies and Year 5 were brilliant when supporting. At the end of the session, Year 3 were given the chance to hear Year 5 read their books […]
Year 4’s New Art Topic
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In year 4 we are looking at Anglo Saxon masks this half term in Art. We are looking at how portraits are created and how shape plays an important role. We will build on our portrait work, eventually creating our own masks in the Anglo Saxon style using clay.
Author Visit for Year 1
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Year 1 really enjoyed our visit from the Author Jenny York. We loved listening to her share some of her stories and we even got to dress up as some of the characters!
Y6 Computing Curriculum
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Year 6 started their computing learning this year by revisiting what they already knew and applying some of the basic loop skills to a scratch programme. Well done Year 6 – a great start to the computing curriculum!
Y1 Budding Artists
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Last week Year 1 have started their learning about artist Claude Monet. We know that he is a French artist who painted landscapes. We spoke like artists when discussing different pieces of his artwork. “It makes me feel calm because he has painted nature and there are no people there”. We then developed our painting […]