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In Year 6, we love reading and listening to a good class novel!  We have a competition running called 'The Book Games' where the books we read compete against each other.  We have read  'The Wickford Doom' by Chris Priestley and this is battling it out with our current class novel 'The journey to…

In Year 5 we are running a competition called The Book Games.

Throughout the year we are reading different stories in class.  After reading 2 books, a winner is chosen.  In the Autumn Term we read Stig of the Dump and The Mischievians.  The children chose The Mischievians as the…

This term, Mrs Smith from Southlands High School, will be working with Year 4 on learning how to play handball.  Today, the children were introduced to the sport and had the opportunity to learn some important skills that will be useful when we are playing the game.  We learned how to catch and…

We have all worked very hard to build our vehicles. They are fantastic!

When we tested them in the hall some of them travelled a long way.

Well done Learning Lions.

To celebrate Shrove Tuesday we enjoyed choosing pancake toppings to taste.

We added the toppings ourselves and decided which was our favourite. Yum yum!

We have been using a range of fruit and vegetables this week to compare and measure their weights. One group had the difficult challenge of ordering 13 fruits and vegetables from lightest to heaviest using one balance scale! Other groups compared 3 or 4 fruits. Later we used cubes to estimate the…

Measuring

Look at us measuing using centimetres and metres in the playground.

Children in Antarctica and Africa groups peer supported the children in  Asia and South America groups with using a ruler.

This week we have taken part in #SID2016 - Safer Internet Day 2016. We have focused on what we would do if we came across something we didn't like on the internet or if someone tried to contact us online. We also thought about being kind to others through technology. We watched a short video about…

Safer Internet Day

Tuesday 9th  February was Safer Internet day. Year Two focused on why we shouldn't give our personal details out on the web. We watched a short vidoe from Hector's World to show how important it is not to share our details. Then we designed a poster to say what we should do…

Who do we talk to if we see something online that we don't like? How can we be kind to each other online?

 We thought about these questions and watched a short video with a little song to help us remember what we have learned.  

Internet Safety Day

This week we have been looking at different ways of staying safe online. These are some of our E-Safety tips:

• A new friend online is still a stranger.
• Tell a trusted adult about cyber bullying.
• Never upload pictures that show which school you go to.
• Don't open…