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• Wednesday 15 September 2021 A warm welcome to Badger Class 2021-22 It has been a delight to welcome Year 3 and 4 into Badger Class to start the new academic year. The children have come in with such enthusiasm and energy - we are so proud of them all.
• Friday 16 July 2021 Badger Class - Summer Term -Week 13 This week has been full of lovely events including Sports Day and our Beach Day. During sports day, the children entered the activities with great enthusiasm, showed excellent team work and encouraged each other brilliantly. It was such fun to get out together as a whole school and enjoy some sporting activities together. Badger Class participated in the flat races, relay, skipping and three-legged race. Huge congratulations to everyone especially Red Team who were the overall winners of the event. 
• Friday 9 July 2021 Badger Class - Summer Term - Week 12 This week has been all about our trip to Holkham Hall. The children really enjoyed getting out of school and engaging in some forest school activities. Our leader, Sophie, told us all about the woodland and the fallow deer that roam the estate. We were lucky enough to see lots of adult deer and fawns.  During the day, we went on a mini-beast hunt and found lots of different insects and the children also looked for clues about the different animals that use the forest. The children had to work together on some team building activities and they built their own amazing dens. Finally, we finished the day with a campfire and marshmallows! 
• Friday 2 July 2021 Badger Class - Summer Term - Week 11 Badger Class have been busy artists over the last two weeks as they have been studying geography and art through George Seurat’s artwork. He often painted scenes by rivers in France. He was one of the first artists to use pointillism. The children had a go at doing some studies of his artwork and tried his pointillism technique using felt tips. We looked very closely at the different coloured dots that would make up parts of the picture. Next the children started sketching their own landscape picture of the school ready to continue work on next week. 
• Friday 11 June 2021 Badger Class - Summer - Week 8 Badger Class have returned well after the half term break and have enjoyed a (very!) warm first week back! The children have worked well to finish their assessments and showed some great maths skills. We have also continued our work on time. In English, we have started working on an alternative traditional tale and we are considering the story of The Three Little Pigs from the wolf's perspective! The children are using their creative writing techniques to re-write the story from this new point of view! In PE, the children are continuing to develop their cricket skills and show some good team work. For homework, the children also completed some super posters to help us all learn the Year 3/4 spelling words. What a super start to the final half term Badgers! 
• Friday 28 May 2021 Badger Class - Summer - Week 7 Badger Class have had a busy week before half term. They concentrated so well on their grammar and reading assessments. I was really impressed with their positive attitude and sustained focus. 
• Tuesday 25 May 2021 Badger Class -Summer Term - Week 6 This week we have been finishing off our work on Formentera. The children published their holiday brochures on the Spanish island and they look incredible. We joked that we could definitely sell them to the Spanish tourist board to increase tourism once travel restrictions are lifted! The children have worked so hard on these and shown a real flair for persuasive writing and used an informal tone to engage and interest the reader. Well done Badger Class - I am so proud of you. We then went on to explore Formentera in our art lesson where children worked in groups to create a paper map with 3D elements and some typography skills to denote the areas of the island. The children used a simple material very creatively to show the different human and natural features of the island and all it had to offer visitors. 
• Monday 17 May 2021 Badger Class - Summer Week 5 Apologies for the lack of pictures this week... We were so busy learning I forgot! Badger Class have been doing some excellent cricket work in PE focusing on their bowling skills and aim. Some children surprised themselves with their own accuracy hitting the stumps! In literacy, I have been hugely impressed with the children's application of their persuasive writing skills in their own independent writing all about Formentera in Spain. Bravo! 
• Tuesday 11 May 2021 Badger Class - Summer Week 4 Another week has flown by! This week Badger Class have been focussing on measure in maths and exploring mass and capacity. The considered the units we measure in including gams, kilograms, millilitres and litres. We also did lots of practical work so the children could experience the scales and different increments in real life and problem solve through exploring. Badger Class did brilliantly and have shown super measuring skills. Some children also looked at the links between fractions and decimals and how we can apply this previous learning to measure and develop further connections within maths and beyond.  
• Monday 3 May 2021 Badger Class - Summer Term -Week 3 It has been a very busy week in Badger Class with some fantastic creative work going on. The children explored Spanish artists including Gaudi, Picasso and Dali and discussed and compared the work of these inspirational artists. Then we focused in on Picasso's style of cubism where different angles are bought together in one picture. Badger Class used photographs of themselves face on and in profile to develop their own cubist style portraits. They sketched their ideas before finalising their designs on board. We used watercolours to bring vibrancy to the portraits and discussed the use of warm and cool colours to create an impact and contrast just like Picasso did. The children worked brilliantly and really showcased Picasso's mantra of 'learn the rules like a professional so you can break them like an artist' and 'all children are born artists'. 
• Wednesday 28 April 2021 Badger Class - Summer Week 1 and 2 It has been a very busy first couple of weeks back in Badger Class. The children have all settled back into class well and are already enjoying our Modern Europe topic. In literacy the children are developing their persuasive writing skills by exploring holiday brochures and developing their writing techniques. In maths, we have been continuing our work on fractions and decimals. Art has involved work on typography where the children created lettering inspired by nature. Lots of hard work and fun had by all! 
• Friday 26 March 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 11 What a super exciting last week of term it has been! It was our British Science Week 2021 this week and the children were brilliant. The theme for this year was innovation for the future and in our class we focused on Space Travel theme and experimented with lots of ideas linked to this theme throughout the week. 
• Thursday 25 March 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 10 Another week has zoomed by! The children wrote some fantastic mountain poems inspired by Valerie Blooms - The River. Their use of imagery, metaphors and personification was really impressive and they performed them aloud with great expression and enthusiasm. 
• Friday 12 March 2021 Badger Class _ Spring Week 9 It has been an absolute delight to have Badger Class back in the classroom altogether. It was lovely to see the children reconnect with their friends, have fun and just enjoy a bit of normal(ish) school life! 
• Friday 5 March 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 8 Woo hoo! Badger Class have continued to do brilliantly all the way through remote learning and they finished in style by celebrating World Book Day during our zoom lesson and through their assignments that day. There were so many amazing entries into the 'Unusual Reading Spot' competition and the winner will be announced on Monday.... so watch this space. 
• Sunday 28 February 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 7 Another super week of home learning in Badger Class. The children have been working super hard to create there own versions of Valerie Bloom's poem 'The River'. I have been very impressed with their vocabulary and use if imagery through use of metaphors and personification. There has also been some super work on zoom with the children building on their maths learning in measurement and fractions - excellent work! In science the children explored sound and will build on this next week and in PSHE we looked at oral hygiene and how to get a million dollar smile. 
• Friday 12 February 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 6 I cannot believe we are at half term and what a half term it has been! I am sure it has felt like a very long six weeks for some parents but the children of Badger Class have been amazing given the difficult situation. They have worked so hard this week even with the full school closure for snow. The children submitted brilliant news reports and have been enthusiastic learners every day on our zoom lessons. their maths work is coming on so well with Year 3 becoming statistics experts and Year 4 developing their knowledge of improper fractions and mixed numbers.
• Friday 5 February 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 5 Another super week on learning from the children in Badger Class. 
• Friday 29 January 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 4 Another super week of home learning and work in school for some children. The children have been writing their own adventure narratives inspired by The Whale. It has been brilliant to see the children applying the writing skills they have worked on over the last few weeks. Lots of future authors in the making - watch out J.K. Rowling!
• Thursday 21 January 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 3 This week Badger Class has been looking at the character of Lucy from our story the ‘The Whale’ by Vita and Ethan Murrow. The children became Lucy and had to build a boat showing resilience, resourcefulness and positivity just like she did.
• Friday 15 January 2021 Badger Class - Spring Week 2 Badger Class, you have all done so well this week and we are really starting to get into a routine with home learning. You have adjusted to Teams brilliantly and it has been a joy to read all your literacy work this week. There won't be many pictures for the blog as everything is submitted via teams. For this week I have just included your sketch books - what a fabulous array of designs you created! I am so proud of all of you, those children working at home and those children coming into school -  you are all super stars. I can't wait to see you again on Zoom on Monday but enjoy the weekend and make sure you and your parents/family get a rest!
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