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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.
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!
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.
Tuesday 24 May 2022 Mask Self Portraits Badger Class were inspired by Joan Jonas' performance art and her mask style self portraits. Working in performance, video, installation, sculpture, and drawing, Jonas finds inspiration in mythic stories, investigating texts from the past. The class watched a short film where Joan Jonas describes her approach to drawing and its role within her overall practice. "Drawing is like practicing the piano, because the first ones that I do often don't come out so I have to practice," she says.
Monday 16 May 2022 Badger Class Award Winners Congratulations to our class award winners over the last two weeks. These children have shown the great learning attributes we value so highly.
Monday 16 May 2022 Badger Class - Myth inspired art Over the last two weeks, Badger Class have been exploring myth based art and been inspired by the work of Joan Jonas especially her installation artwork called 'The Juniper Tree'.https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joan-jonas-7726
Friday 29 April 2022 Badger Class Awards 29.04.22 Badger Class have enjoyed some fantastic learning this week including brilliant work on myths and legends in literacy and working on comparing and ordering fractions in maths.
Tuesday 26 April 2022 Cricket Coaching It has been great to begin cricket coaching again thisterm and the children started by focusing on their batting skills. The class worked in teams and had three strikes of the ball to build up the highest run total they could. Then the fielding team had to retrieve all the balls as quickly as possible to stop the batting team scoring more runs. There were lots of shouts of 'Howzat' from the pavilion and the children are very excited for the next session.
Tuesday 26 April 2022 Quad Kids Athletic Competition It was a pleasure to support Albie, Rose, Chris, Lola, Oli, Georgina, William, Lara, Sonny and Nellie from Badger Class attend the Quad Kids athletic event at the UEA this week. The children had to compete in four different events - 400m run, 50m sprint, standing long jump and vortex throw. All the children had different levels of experienceand for many of them this was their first athletics competition. They supported and encouraged each other brilliantly.
Friday 22 April 2022 Ted Harrison Inspired Cushions Badger Class have worked so hard on designing, making and evaluating their cushions. Initially children studied the artwork of Ted Harrison and then they used his bold colours and fluid landscape lines to inspire the design of their cushion. Some children had to adapt their design ideas as they progressed through the making process. It was great to see the children develop sewing skills and use various stitching techniques. Everyone was very proud of their final products!
Friday 25 March 2022 Wonderful Watercolours Badger Class had a really exciting and arty day as two art specialist from Wymondham High Academy came to teach them. They worked on their water skills to create a polar scene of the icy tundra. The children focussed on colour mixing, creating texture with media and mark making in different ways. What a super effort! And a big thank you to Mrs Craft and Mrs Fisher for the expertise and enthusiasm - the children loved it!
Friday 18 March 2022 Badger Class Award Winners Congratulations to our weekly award winners this week who have worked especially hard in one area of the curriculum this week.
Friday 18 March 2022 Super Science Week in Badger Class Badger Class had a brilliant week during British Science Week with a focus on the theme of 'Growth'. We investigated how much we could make slime grow by mixing the consistency to make it the stretchiest it could be! I think the faces of the children show how much they enjoyed this investigation!
Friday 11 March 2022 Year 4 Tennis Festival Year 4 had a fantastic morning at Easton College enjoying some tennis themed activities run by Year 9pupils from Old Buckenham High School. The activities aimed to help improve the children's hand-eye coordination, agility, aim and ball control as well as being lots of fun!
Friday 11 March 2022 Badger Class Awards 11.3.22 Congratulations to our award winners this week!
Friday 4 March 2022 Badger Class Awards Congratulations to our ward winners this week:
Thursday 3 March 2022 Badger Class Celebrate World Book Day Badger Class have loved celebrating World Book Day 2022! We had some wonderful costumes from The Wizard of Oz to Tom Gates to Harry Potter to Dragons to Mary Poppins and so many more!
Friday 25 February 2022 Badger Class - 'Sew' creative! I hope everyone had a lovely half term and enjoyed some family time despite the pretty awful weather!
Friday 11 February 2022 Badger Class - Spring Half Term A huge congratulations to all of Badger Class on a fantastic half term. They have really engaged with the Frozen Kingdom topic and are hugely enthusiastic about it. This week some of the children created some Polar themed games for their homework and shared these with the class. There was lots of brilliant ideas and the children had so much fun playing the games!
Tuesday 8 February 2022 Science news Badgers have had a fascinating fortnight learning all about the human body in our current science topic.
Friday 4 February 2022 Frozen Kingdom Writing Badger Class have been working really hard on their literacy skills over the last two weeks. They have explored some of the adventures of Shackleton and his epic adventure across the Antarctic. The children applied to be part of Shackleton's brave and resilient crew. They then switched roles and wrote a speech as Shackleton to motivate his crew in some of the tougher times.
Friday 28 January 2022 Badger Class - Award Winners Congratulations to our award winners this week:
Friday 14 January 2022 Badger Class - Spring Term 1 A warm welcome back to everyone! It has been great to have Badger Class back for the Spring Term and it has already been a busy one with lots of work linked to our new topic of 'Frozen Kingdom'.
Friday 17 December 2021 Happy Christmas I can't believe it is the last week of the Autumn Term. Badger Class have been very busy filming their production, enjoying Christmas dinner day and having a Christmas party day! They have all worked so hard this term and managed some super learning (both in school and at home for some children). Well done to all the children and thank you to our families for your continued support.
Friday 10 December 2021 Award Winners After a very busy week, it was a delight to celebrate our award winners this week.
Friday 10 December 2021 The Stone Age Visits Badger Class It was a huge surprise when the the Stone Age came to visit Badger Class in the middle of Kenninghall field! Two cave people, Memma and Oaka, guided the children through the prehistory and showed what a significant role the Stone Age plays. The children were immersed in the period and shared their excellent knowledge and development their interest even further. From studying cave paintings and making fire, to cooking fish and crafting tools - the children loved the whole experience and really embraced the opportunity.
Tuesday 7 December 2021 Badger Class - The Bag that went BOO! We were so lucky to get a fantastic visit from The Garlic Theatre company in Wicklewood this morning. Mark performed his amazing mime show called 'The Bag that went Boo' to a captivated audience. The use of music, puppetry, mime and props was incredible and the children loved every second with lots of audience participation. It followed the story of little lost bag that just wanted to find their way home. It was a pleasure to see live theatre again in school and see the how thrilled and engaged the children were.
Friday 3 December 2021 Badger Class - Christmas Preparations Badger Class have been working super hard on the Christmas play this week and they have started to practice it on the stage with the scenery and dances. It is so great to see how much joy they are getting from it. It has also really helped our literacy work on playscripts as the children have real life experience of stage directions and the layout.
Monday 29 November 2021 Badger Class Awards It has been another busy week with Christmas fast approaching and the children are working extra hard to learn their lines and the songs for the Christmas play. In literacy, we have matched this with work on analysing and writing playscripts of our own including stage directions.
Friday 19 November 2021 Badger Class Support Children in Need What a fabulous Friday! Badger Class came into school wearing their own clothes from Pudsey ears to spots to sports kits and they donated money to Children in Need. As part of our day, Oak Class had organised some super games on the playground for everyone to enjoy. The Year 5/6 children had done an amazing job and there were many stalls including pin the bandana on Pudsey, drop a penny in a bucket, find the hidden Pudsey, noughts and crosses, Pudsey exercise challenge and even more!
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