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This afternoon we took our art lesson outside to put our skills to the test by painting the sky. We talked about colour mixing, tones, shades, brush strokes, abstract concepts and artistic license. They all created beautiful pieces that embodied everything we have learnt this term. 

This week in maths we have been exploring addition and subtraction by answering the question ‘how many now?’.

This morning, we took our maths work to our outdoor area and used the natural resources to help us find the answer to some subtraction number sentences we found in the environment. 
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Today some children started work with Money in Maths. We used replica coins to count how much we had in total for each question, then found different ways to make the same amount. 
 

Today we have been celebrating the 100th birthday of David Attenborough.  We’ve been doing word searches, bug hunts and even embracing the Attenborough whisper! The children were challenged with finding 3 extraordinary wonders in our outdoor classroom; something that moves, something that grows…

During our Geography lesson, we worked in table groups to come up with a list of amenities we think our village lacks. We have created a questionnaire to complete at home, to ask other people to give their opinion. We will use the results next week to create a new sketch map of Great Haywood,…

Class 3 have been working hard in a Times Table Rock Stars tournament this weekend. 

We have 3 winners - well done! Great times table work! 

We’ve been learning all about absorbent materials this afternoon and how astronauts were Maximum Absorbency Garments (giant nappies!) whilst in their space suits.  They children experimented with different materials, testing their absorbency to determine which would be best in for making the…

The children have been listening to music that tells a story and have created their own storyboards, thinking about which instruments will work best to depict each section of their story.  Next week they will be using the instruments to turn their drawings into music!

This afternoon, after such an amazing week in class, Class 1 enjoyed their afternoon snack on the grass in the shade and then had a bonus treat of working together to complete the trim trail. All the children worked well to help and encourage each other and enjoyed showing Mrs Philp their skills! 
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This afternoon with one of our parent helpers, we had a quick tidy up of the outdoor classroom, weeding, labelling the vegetable beds and watering. We also found quite a lot of minibeasts enjoying our outdoor space! 
 

Wow! The children have been exploring colour mixing and adding black and white to experiment with tone and shade. They produced some thoughtful and dramatic skies, inspired by the work of William Turner.

In RE this week, we continued to explore churches. We looked at lots of different churches around the world and saw how they can vary in size and design. We spoke about how important churches are to Christians and discussed what different types of celebrations we have been to in church. 
 

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