Kestrels
Kestrels - 7th May
This week we have continued to learn all about Money. We have been adding and subtracting amounts and have finished the week by calculation change and solving multi-step money problems.
We have also begun to look at spreadsheets in computing and how we can use them to sort and show data.…
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Money, Money, Money.
This week we have been exploring the world of money. We have been identifying the value of all the different coins and notes, we have been rounding and estimating with amounts of money and ended the week adding and subtracting amounts of money. Next week we will be looking at finding change, so if…
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Kestrels - 23rd April
Friday 23rd April - Happy St. George's Day!
Yet another fun and busy week in Kestrels.
This week we have been learning all about keeping our bodies healthy and healthy eating. We have explored the many things we can do day to day to maintain an active and healthy lifestyle and have been…
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Kestrels Message in a Bottle
This week we have enjoyed exploring our new topic for Summer term 1. We are going to be learning all about Stanah Estuary and all about the human skeleton.
To begin our topic, we received a message in a bottle from a Pirate, sailing across the High Seas. Pirate Blackbeard is the Captain of the…
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Kestrels 19th March 2021
We have had another busy and exciting week in Kestrels. In Maths we have been learning about decimal numbers, tenths and hundredths. We have also been converting fractions to decimal numbers and vice versa. In our English lessons we have been planning and writing our own narrative and having SPaG…
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Kestrels - Welcome Back
All the Kestrels have had a great first week back in school after a long period of remote learning. The children were all really excited to be back in the classroom with their friends and it was soon like we had never been away.
Mrs Soneya, Miss Roe and myself were all also really delighted to…
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Kestrels - December 18th 2020
This week our blog has been written by 3 more of the Kestrels class. Here's what they had to say.
This week in Kestrels we have been learning how to do different stitched. The ones that we did were cross stitch, running stitch and back stitch. Also this week we have had some fun with our…
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Kestrels - 11th December
Our class blog this week has been written by Milo and Alice.
This is what they had to say.
Milo
This week I have enjoyed reading and writing about The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse. In Maths I have really liked finding perimeter of different shapes.
I enjoy it when we do 5 in…
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Kestrels - 27th November
Another great week for the Kestrels.
We have really enjoyed learning all about newspapers, how they are written and their features. We have then created our own newspapers.
In our Maths lessons we have been learning how to divide mentally using multiplication facts we already know to help…
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Kestrels 20th November
An other great week for the Kestrels.
We have loved discovering the remains of an Iron Age fort within our school grounds and exploring artifacts from history.
We have been looking at features of newspapers and learning how to use puns and alliteration to write catchy headlines.
This…
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Remembrance & Poetry Week in Kestrels
Remembrance & Poetry Week in Kestrels
This week in Kestrels we have been looking at different types of poetry. We have explored haikus, kennings and limericks. We have also looked at rhyming couplets and narrative poetry.
We have had a go at writing our own version of each type of poetry.…
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Kestrels - 6th November 2020
The highlight of our week this week was our Outdoor Learning Day.
In the morning we went on a multiples hunt to find and match multiples to the correct times table. We then began to hunt for common multiples.
We then took some time to sit and look and listen to nature. We then used this to…
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