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• 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!
• Friday 12 November 2021 Badger Class Awards Congratulations to our award winners this week:
• Friday 5 November 2021 Badger Class - Taekwondo Fun It has been a super busy but productive week back after half term. The children have enjoyed learning some new skills in Taekwondo sessions during PE and they focussed on technique rather than speed or strength. They had a lot of fun and we have some real ninjas within the class!
• Friday 22 October 2021 Happy Halloween and Half Term Badger Class rounded off a super half term with a Halloween dress up day. All the children looked amazing from werewolves to cats to witches to zombies - we had it all! The children enjoyed a fun day which had been organised by the Friends of Spooner Row. The hall was decorated beautifully and the children could enter a pumpkin carving competition if they wanted to. The entries were brilliant and it was such a close result!
• Friday 15 October 2021 Badger Class - Autumn Term 2021 - Week 6 It has been a busy week in Badger Class again with lots of work on our reading skills and we also looked at negative numbers in maths and enjoyed this nrich gamehttps://nrich.maths.org/5898
• Friday 8 October 2021 Badger Class Say Hello Yellow On 8th October Badger Class said Hello Yellow for World Mental Health Day and wore the sunniest clothing to raise funds and awareness for Young Minds charity. The children loved dressing up in bright clothing and enjoyed an assembly learning all about the work of Young Minds and how important taking care of our mental health is. In total the school raised £183... A little yellow can make a big difference! A huge thank you to all those who took part and supported the campaign.
• Friday 8 October 2021 Badger Class Award Winners A little late but no less brilliant! Our award winners for last week were Anthony for amazing listening and developing his skills in PE, Lara for being a star reader, Oli for ambitious use of vocabulary in his writing and Sonali for excellent maths presentation and logical working.
• Friday 24 September 2021 Badger Class Awards Badger Class have worked so hard over the first few weeks of term and here are our award winners so far.
• Friday 24 September 2021 Stone Age Take Over in Badger Class Badger Class were taken over by the Stone Age this week! The children took on different roles from within the Stone Age including making a campfire, flint knapping, skinning animals, cave painting, hunting and gathering, cooking food, building shelters, sewing clothes and fishing! It was a very productive camp. The children also explored how the Stone Age changed during periods - Paleolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic and decided which they would prefer to live in and why.
• Friday 24 September 2021 Badger Class - Fancy Footwork Badger Class have been working really hard on their footwork skills in Real PE over the last weeks. One of the challenges was to complete a footwork circuit using all the different techniques they had learnt. This included high knees, side stepping, pivots, zig zag and hopscotch.
• 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. 
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