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Saturday 24 September 2022 Award Winners - 23.09.22 Congratulations to our award winners who have shown our learning values through their efforts this week.
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Saturday 24 September 2022 Badger Class - Emotions in art Badger Class have been looking at Genre artwork this term. Genre artwork depicts everyday life and is most common from the 17th Century. Some notable examples include Maddox, Brueghel, Wright, Metsu and Lowry. The children have been looking at a variety of different artwork and discussing the similarities and differences as well as developing their own opinions and thoughts about the artwork.
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Friday 23 September 2022 Fox Class 20th - 23rd September 2022 This week we have enjoyed lots of practical activities in Maths. We have played games to find 1 more and 1 less. We have represented numbers using the Numicon and Diennes blocks and matched numerals to pictures.
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Thursday 22 September 2022 Oak Class Blog - 23rd September 2022 This week, Oak Class have explored place value in Maths and sentence level work linked to the book 'The Nowhere Emporium'. They are really enjoying the drama aspect of English this term and we definitely have some budding thespians in our class.
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Monday 19 September 2022 Our First Week We have spent time getting to know each other and learning the classroom rules. We have learnt a rhyme to help us remember to pack away. We will continue to practise sitting still and listening in a group over the next few weeks. This is a key skill for learning.
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Friday 16 September 2022 Welcome Badger Class 2022-23 It has been a delight to see the children settle into Year 3 and 4 and come together as wonderful new class for this year. The first two weeks have been full of lots of fun and excitement and it has been great to see the children developing new friendships and getting to know each other.
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Friday 16 September 2022 Fox Class September 12th-16th September We have had a very busy weeks this week. We have been reading and writing about the story "The Storm Whale." We have been counting forwards and backwards in Maths and have started to investigate Henri Rousseau's jungle paintings. We even drew our own not very realistic animals. We have enjoyed dance in PE and explored the field looking at local habitats.
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Friday 16 September 2022 Oak Class Blog - 16th September 2022 Welcome to the first Oak Class blog of the new school year. All the children have come back to school enthusiastic and ready to learn. They have all settled into this new Oak Class very well and are embracing all the learning challenges.
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Tuesday 13 September 2022 Group 2 First Full Day We have had a fun day playing outside in the sunshine. We have played chasing games, counted sea creatures, played in the role play house, built obstacle courses and got to know each other better. We have also practised spelling and writing our names, tapped out syllables on the bucket drums, coloured and played in the sand and play dough areas.
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Monday 12 September 2022 Group 1 First Full Day We had a fun filled first full day. The weather was warm, so we played outside in the mud kitchen, in the role play house and in the water. When we went inside, we practised our names, played with the toys on the carpet and spent time getting to know each other.
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Friday 22 July 2022 Oak Class Blog - 22nd July 2022 I can't believe it is the end of the school year already and what a wonderful year it has been for the staff and children in Oak Class. We all agree that they have been a friendly, hardworking and enthusiastic class, who have also been brilliant student leaders. There have been so many highlights from this school year, too many to mention them all but the ones that spring to mind are the residential, Children in Need Day, Science Week, DT Week, sports day and our trip to High Altitude this week.
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Friday 22 July 2022 End of Summer Term A final blog post to say well done and congratulations to Badger Class for a fantastic year. The children have all shown the two attributes we look for - kindness and a hard working attitude. They have achieved so much and have such unique and special qualities.
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Wednesday 20 July 2022 Banham Zoo Trip Badger Class had a thoroughly enjoyable day out to Banham Zoo earlier in the term.
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Friday 15 July 2022 Badger Class - Printing Pros Over the last few weeks, Badger Class have been looking at different printing techniques and this week they created their own printing blocks based on designs and plans from the previous week.
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Friday 15 July 2022 Badger Class Awards 15.07.22 Congratulations to our award winners this week for their excellent approach and attitude towards learning and wider school activities.
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Friday 15 July 2022 Fox Class 11th-15th July 2022 We have had much more of a normal week this week and had our usual lessons.
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Friday 8 July 2022 Oak Class Blog - 8th July 2022 It has been a busy couple of weeks for Oak Class, with the main focus being our end of year production. In between rehearsals, the class have been enjoying a variety of sporting and STEM activities.
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Friday 1 July 2022 Super Sports Day Badger Class enjoyed a fantastic sports day on the field this week. The children participated brilliantly in a range of races from the sprints and obstacle course to three-legged races and the long run around the field! It was such a pleasure to invite parents back into school and the children loved celebrating with them.
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Wednesday 29 June 2022 Sports Day Today was Sports Day and it was great to have our parents there to watch. We competed in our houses and everyone took part in at least two races. A huge thank you to the sports leaders and house captains who helped organise the events and supported the younger children.
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Wednesday 29 June 2022 Opening Ceremony We started Sports Day with a Commonwealth themed opening ceremony. Each house represented a Commonwealth Country and each year group researched different facts about that country.
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Friday 24 June 2022 Badger Class - 24th June 2022 It has been a very busy half term so far with lots going on! The children worked really hard to finish their legend narratives and write them up as scrolls with beautiful illustrations. This was a writing topic that really captured the children's imagination and creativity!
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Friday 24 June 2022 Fox Class 20th-24th June 2022 Fox Class have worked hard this week in Literacy to write 'Sound Collector' poems. We have been revising addition and subtraction in Maths and started looking at Scratch Junior in computing. We enjoyed practising our racket skills in PE. In art we made collage faces, with some interesting results!
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Friday 24 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 24th June 2022 This week, has been 'Writing Week' in Oak Class. The children explored three different genres: balanced arguments, instructional writing and narrative writing. They were all really engaged, enthusiastic and imaginative in their writing, producing some wonderful pieces of work. Well done Oak Class for your dedication to writing!
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Friday 17 June 2022 Fox: Cricket at Kenninghall Last week some of Fox Class went to Kenninghall School to play a game of Cricket. It was a rather warm day but everyone tried their best and had lots of fun. I am very proud of how the children conducted themselves. (And we won too!) Well Done Foxes.
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Friday 17 June 2022 Fox class 13th-17th June 2022 This week we have been comparing capacity and volume in our Maths. We have been looking at sea poems and thinking about alliteration and rhyming words.
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Friday 17 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 17th June 2022 This week, Oak Class have been going full steam ahead with our end of year production. It has been great to see how many of the class have already learnt their lines and are getting into the performance aspects of the script.
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Wednesday 15 June 2022 Dynamos Cricket
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Friday 10 June 2022 Chance to Shine Cricket Coaching During the Summer Term, children in years one to six received cricket coaching through Chance to Shine (national cricket charity). They learned how to bowl, bat and field. The older children were provided with match practise ahead of their Dynamos Cricket competition.
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Friday 10 June 2022 Oak Class Blog - 10th June 2022 Today, Oak Class went to Wymondham High School to experience Science and Art learning, in a high school environment. In Science, the class enjoyed exploring the PH values of different liquids, learning all about acidic, alkaline and neural substances. As you can see from the photos below, all the children really enjoyed being able to carry out investigations in a proper science laboratory.
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Friday 27 May 2022 Badger Class - 27.05.22 What a busy and fun end to the half term! The last two weeks hasve been jam packed with lots of exciting learning and events.
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