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This week in maths Class 1 have been exploring simple repeating patterns and earlier this week enjoyed creating movement patterns.
 

This afternoon, the children went outside to our outside classroom to create their own repeating patterns using natural resources of their choice. How fabulous…

This afternoon we all designed a poster for the Colwich Parish Council Christmas lights switch on next month. 
 

From flying cars to time machines, Lego club were looking into the future with their builds from the year 3000 this lunchtime. 

The children had an interesting afternoon predicting and experimenting with different materials, exploring their properties. 

We have been investigating shadows in Science. We went outside at different times of the day and measured the length of our shadows. At one point, we thought that we were shrinking! We now know that our shadows are bigger at the start of the day and smaller in the middle of the day. When the sun…

This week as part of our People who Help Us topic, we are thinking about Dentists and keeping our teeth healthy.

We have had a lot of fun today painting teeth with toothbrushes, flossing dirty teeth at our funky fingers table, making toothbrushes for our Monster Phonics teddies and…

We have been learning about monuments and drawing our own today.

We’ve been learning about Traditional tales this week and have enjoyed reading Little Red Riding Hood. This afternoon we’ve been looking at ‘sequencing’ our story.

This morning the children made a fantastic start on their Clarice Cliff plates.  They put all of their colour mixing skills to use and began their designs.  

In our RE topic this term, we are thinking about the question, Why is God so important to Christians. Today we discovered that to Christians, God is a VIP! We talked about what it means to be a VIP and shared who are our VIPs.

We then found out about how God created our world and all that…

We have started our computing sessions by learning about online safety. We began by watching a video about the ‘spaghetti tree’ in Switzerland that had a bumper crop! We were intrigued to learn more about this but then discovered it was a prank! It highlighted how easy it is to spread fake news…

In our History lesson, we learnt more about the Ancient Egyptian mummification process. We used a tomato to represent the human body and scooped out the seeds (which represented internal organs), before covering the inside of the tomato in salt to preserve it, just like the Egyptians did to…