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Friday 7 March 2025 Meerkats in 'wordy' disguises! As I uploaded the photographs I realised what a busy week the Marvellous Meerkats have had growing their brains and being creative.
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day and Pancake Making! A fantastic second week back into term 4 continuing our topic ‘wriggle, crawl and roar’ with the story Farmer Duck. Children enjoyed learning new vocabulary including fatigued, eject, stunned and stealthy where they come up with actions to help remember the words and their meaning. In drawing club children created their own lazy farmer character, a farmer’s house for a setting and an adventure for the character to go on! They have also enjoyed farm themed activities around the classroom including making farm animals with play-doh, creating their own small world farm, observing and drawing fruit and vegetables that grow on our farms and making animal pens in the construction area.
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Friday 7 March 2025 World Book Day and other fun! We have had another fantastic week in Zebra Class. The children looked wonderful in their different costumes for World Book Day . Thank you for all your effort in supporting them with dressing as a word!
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Friday 7 March 2025 Friday 7th March Run, run, as fast as you can, you can't catch me, I'm the Gingerbread man! This week we started Drawing Club and our focus text was The Gingerbread Man. In Drawing club the children learn new vocabulary and add actions to help them understand the meaning of the words. This week we had sleek, sly, scamper, delicious, pursue, bellow, astonished and halt. The children then draw a picture linked to a character, setting or adventure. The last stage of Drawing club is to add a code. The code then makes something happen. For example on our adventure day, the children drew their ideas for how to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river without getting wet or being eaten by the sly fox. They had lots of different ideas, including building him a raft and helping him to fly over the river. The children have then written their own codes, such as 'up and away' to make the magic happen.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Fish sitters! Doesn’t it make such a difference when the sun shines! It has made everyone more cheerful than usual! This week Giraffe class have welcome 4 new fish to the class. We are looking after them and have to make sure we feed them each morning.
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Friday 7 March 2025 Hello Sunshine! How lovely has it been to see the sunshine again and feel a little bit of warmth from the sun hitting our skin? The children have thoroughly enjoyed being able to run around at playtimes and lunchtimes without always needing their coats on, and our walk down to the swimming pool on Tuesday was glorious!
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Friday 28 February 2025 28th February 2025 It was lovely to see everybody back and refreshed ready for the start of Term 4. The year is flying by! Our topic for this term is 'Wriggle, Crawl and Roar'. This week we have looked at the story of 'What the Ladybird Heard' and later in the term will we read other great books such as 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'The Tiger Who Came to Tea'. We have also looked for the first signs of spring, made collections of 9, started new Read, Write, Inc groups and have collaborated in small groups and as a whole class!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Great first week back! Welcome back Wallaby Class and what a lovely week it has been! We have had very mixed weather either very wet or lovely and sunny! When it has been sunny, Wallaby class have made the most of being outside playing in the water area, enjoying the Veterinary Surgery and playing on the trikes.
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Friday 28 February 2025 We are inspired! It was lovely to welcome everyone back this week and to begin our fantastic new art topic on Georgia O'Keeffe. We have learnt that she was an American artist who took her inspiration from natural objects around her. So we decided to try and take our inspiration from natural objects in our environment. We then used the leaves we collected to practice our sketching and shading skills. Georgia O'Keeffe also loved to use bold vibrant colours to paint her pictures, so we then looked at painting by recognising the three primary colours and using them to create secondary colours.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Arty Leopards! The children have settled back into term 4 amazingly and have shown a great attitude to get stuck straight into their learning!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Friday 28th February - Honeybee Class Welcome back! We hope you had a wonderful break!
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Friday 28 February 2025 Friday 28th February We have settled back in quickly following the half term and have started a new topic looking at the American artist Georgia O'Keeffe. We started the unit by looking at some of Georgia's art work and discussed what we liked/disliked about her paintings. Then we chose a piece of her work and used our sketching skills to have a go at copying it. On Wednesday, we looked at colour mixing and discovered that when you mix primary colours together you can make secondary colours. The primary colours are red, yellow and blue. Take a look at the photos to see what happened when we mixed them.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Arty Meerkats! Special news to share, Mrs Allen has had a baby boy – the children have seen some gorgeous pictures that Mrs Allen kindly shared with us and we all agree that he’s just adorable – a big Meerkat welcome to Baby Allen.
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Friday 28 February 2025 Welcome Back to Term 4 Welcome back to Term 4 in Giraffe Class. Hopefully you had a restful break and haven’t been too blown away by the half term weather. We are all looking forward to the sunshine, fingers crossed!
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Friday 14 February 2025 What a Great Term! What a fabulous term we have had! We hope everyone has had a great day today and are looking forward to a lovely week next week.
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Friday 7 February 2025 Fruit salad, yummy yummy! In English, the children have written the fantastic non-chronological reports all about some landmarks in London and how amazing it is. They all included features in their writing and thought about some great did you know facts!
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Friday 7 February 2025 7th February 2025 The children have enjoyed the story of The Three Billy Goats Gruff as part of our Drawing Club this week. They have worked hard in Maths, learning about doubles and subitising two amounts and finding the total, sometimes in different ways. Koalas have also looked at different materials and talked about why certain products are made from certain materials. The children have also started to make their own musical instruments, ready for this week.
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Friday 7 February 2025 Culinary delights! It’s hard to believe we are just one week away from the end of Term 3 and half way through the school year. Our gem pot is again full, so next week the children will have extra playtime as their reward! The Meerkats are a fantastically kind bunch of children and it is so lovely to hear reports from other members of staff who also notice their kindness and general helpful ways – keep it up marvellous Meerkats!
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Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February 2025 Trip Trap Trip Trap....Who's that trip trapping over my bridge?
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Friday 7 February 2025 Three Billy Goat's Gruff The Three Billy Goats Gruff-Whose that Trip Trapping Over my Bridge!
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Friday 7 February 2025 Healthy fruit salads for everyone! What a fun week we have had in Panda Class this week. We have been thinking about what foods help us to stay healthy and how we can prepare them safely. We talked about how to use the claw and bridge technique to chop, slice and cut fruit safely and which parts of the fruit we could eat. After we had designed our fruit salads, we then prepared them carefully and safely before we enjoyed eating them. It was delicious, colouful and nutritious and the children worked safely and carefully. Great job Panda Class!
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Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February 2025 - Honeybees We have had a wonderful week in Honeybee Class with our focus being The Three Billy Goats Gruff. We have been story tellers, recalling the repeated parts of the story and thought about what else the characters may say. We have built bridges large and small using a range of construction, the children particularly enjoyed creating a large scale bridge and obstacle course in which they were challenged to jump, hop, skip and crawl across before being gobbled up by the hungry troll.
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Friday 7 February 2025 Chopping and cooking! We have had another busy week in Zebra Class. The children have fully embraced our DT topic and have loved exploring different recipes. This week, it has been all about balanced, healthy eating and we enjoyed tasting different fruits at the beginning of the week. The children tried red grapes, white grapes, pomegranate, kiwi, strawberries, blueberries and cherries. We talked about the different tastes and whether we could spot seeds/stones inside. Many of us had never tasted pomegranate but we enjoyed it very much. The children then went on to design and make a healthy fruit salad. They practised their chopping, grating and slicing skills and I think we definitely have many chefs in the making!
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Friday 7 February 2025 Friday 7th February We have had a fantastic week this week designing and making our own fruit salads. On Monday, we sorted foods into fruits and vegetables and then spent some time looking at a range of different fruits. We talked about the colour, shape and smell of the fruits before having a little taste. We used adjectives to describe them and thought about which were our favourites.
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Friday 7 February 2025 Fruit Salad! The ‘gemometer’ in Giraffe class is close to exploding with the great work that has been happening this week. The writing has been amazing and so has all the fantastic number work.
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Friday 31 January 2025 Friday 31st January 2025 I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down! The Big Bad Wolf strikes again!
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Friday 31 January 2025 UK's traditional treats Leopard Class started a new topic in DT this week, we are looking at 'Where in the UK do these traditional treats come from and can I make a healthy snack to go with them?' We started the week by learning about recipes and the importance of following them in order, to practise we made playdough. On Thursday, we had a very busy morning of making scones, a traditional treat for England. The children were ready to add all of the ingredients together and learn new skills such as mixing, pinching, kneeding, rolling and cutting. At the end of the day, we had a mini tea party and tried our scones, with jam, and a bit of Welsh cake. Mrs Kerbey kindly baked fifteens (Northern Irish) and Shortbread (Scottish) for us to try on Friday afternoon. The children loved all of the treats they tried! Next week we will be continuing our DT topic and practising our cutting skills when we make fruit salads.
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