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9P had a lot of essential learning experiences this week, which included: 

- learning about Remembrance Day and showing our respect by participating in a one-minute silence as a whole school 

- learning about Friendship week and participating in odd socks day as part of this essential…

9P had a fantastic week this week! 
 

We did our usual community visits of attending the library and going swimming. 
We celebrated bonfire night by creating our own bonfire crafts. 
We had two lovely visitors who read with us for their Duke of Edinburgh experience. 
 

We had such a good…

On Monday morning we learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about why we commemorate Remembrance Day and what happens on each year on the 11th November. We then went down to the cage at 11 o'clock to listen to Mrs Chaloner playing the Last Post on her trumpet. The whole class were very…

This week saw some of us continuing with addition and subtraction in maths, looking at how to break down word problems so solve the questions. Some of us worked on multiplication and division, using written methods to find the answers.

In English, we have been writing letters to local garden…

Today in Year 11 we have been looking at a very relevant news story, the election in the USA.

We discussed who the presidential candidates were and we looked at their policies. We then had a discussion about who we thought we would vote for. After discussing their manifesto we then voted. It…

This week willow class have had a very busy week. Some of the children went swimming working on their water confidence and techniques. On Wednesday some children had a lovely walk to the park working on their road safety and stranger danger. Towards the end of the week we explored the celebration…

Welcome back to Autumn 2 - this will be a long term with lots of exciting things happening along the way, leading up to Christmas! As I forgot to publish the blog at the end of last term, some of the photos are of our last week in term 1 - apologies! 

The week started off with us making some…

This week in English, we thought of a place we would like to visit on holiday and created a word bank to describe it. We then used these words to tell our families about our holiday on a postcard. We had to be sure to not write too much, as postcards aren't very big, but I think we all got across…

Maths this week has seen us continue with addition and subtraction, with some learners working on adding 3 1-digit numbers together, adding tens across 100s and even adding and subtracting fractions! 

In English we have been working on our reading skills, spending lots of time reading our books…

Our ‘new’ food this week was avocado, we had three who loved it but the majority of 7A didn’t like it!! On Wednesday the students were learning more on the topic Witches and Wizards with Miss Troughton. They played a game, which involved stealing a potion from the Grand High witch without being…

This week we finally finished our letters to Joe Wicks, telling him all about our Healthy Living topic and asking him questions about his favourite food and exercise. We posted them off and have already had a reply from one of his team to say he has received our letters and will reply as soon as…

Last week, we decided in our English lessons that we would write a letter to Joe Wicks to tell him all about our topic Healthy Living and to ask him if he has any tips for us, so today we thought about what we wanted to tell him and what questions we had for him. Hopefully we will get a reply! In…