This week, Year 2 worked hard in English to produce detailed instructions explaining how to build a suitable habitat for a Bog Baby. Before half-term, the children looked at the features of instructions and so…
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Year 5: Cookies and Creations!
We’ve had a great couple of weeks in Year 5, with so much interactive fun! We have finished making our Doodlers, after a successful design process where the children investigated circuits and evaluated the effectiveness…
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On Thursday Years 5 and 6 went to the Royal Opera House to watch a performance of the Magic Flute. This clip will give you a taste of the atmosphere at the Royal Opera House….
Read MoreReception: looking into space
Reception children have had such an exciting few days starting with a special delivery to help us see into space. Each class was given a telescope to look into the sky with. We learnt how…
Read MoreYear 2: Creating weird and wonderful creatures
This week in English, Year 2 have been hard at work. On Monday they identified noun phrases, contractions and time adverbials in ‘The Bog Baby’. They then recapped the four sentence types before writing commands…
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Another exciting week in Reception continuing to learn about space. We have been using different resources to build our own rockets to then add to our space small world where we can create our own…
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The children in Reception have enjoyed listening to the book ‘The Gruffalo’, they know lots of the words and join in with the story. Some children made their own Gruffalo using playdough and lots of…
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In Reception we have been reading the book ‘Little Red’. We have been thinking about the different characters in the story, how they might feel at different points in the books as well as learning…
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This week in Reception we have been busy practising our phonics skills using the giant letters outside, we have been using our phonics fingers to sound out words and find the matching letter. We made…
Read MoreYear 6: A day of remarkable visitors
We were incredibly lucky to have not one, but two stellar visitors at St Joseph’s today, both of whom thrilled, informed and entertained us, though in very different ways. First, we had the bestselling children’s…
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