Tricky words

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Outside the children have enjoyed practising writing the tricky word 'into.'

Category: Ducklings

writing Tricky words

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Squarky turns 1!

On 5th October, our class heron Squarky turned 1. We celebrated by giving him a birthday party. We decorated the classroom with banners and balloons. We gave him a birthday card. Then we played musical bumps and statues. Max B and Sophia won. We sang "Happy Birthday" and ate birthday cake.

We…

Category: Herons

Year 2 writing herons year 1 English recount

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Traditional Tales

We have really enjoyed learning about traditional tales in English over the past 3 weeks. We have read the Wolf and The Seven Kids and The Cat, The Dog, Little red, Exploding Eggs, The Wolf and Grandma's Wardrobe. We have also had the opportunity to share your favourite stories from home including…

Category: Herons

Year 2 writing herons reading year 1 English traditional tales

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Dan Worsley Interview

It was great to have Dan Worsley in school today.  We were able to interview him so that we can write his biography.  Hopefully we'll be able to share our biographies when we've finished writing them.  We asked him a lot of questions and found out some funny moments from his childhood.  

What…

Category: Owls

year3 topic year4 writing English owls2018

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"Doves research facts about Roald Dahl"

All this week the children have been researching facts about Roald Dahl so that they can create their own fact file about this world famous author. We celebrated Roald Dahl Day yesterday by finding even more facts about this amazing man. We have already made a great start in revising the features…

Category: Doves

doves writing

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Fantastic Mr Fox

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This week in English we have been learning about Fantastic Mr Fox and the different characters that are in the story.  We have discussed lots about the setting and how the characters feelings change through the story.  We have enjoyed reading the story so far as there are lots of funny parts in…

Category: Robins

writing reading stories English robins2017

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Writing Rhyming Strings

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The Ducklings have enjoyed listening to lots of rhyming stories last week. We also played lots of rhyming games. Some of the children went on to write words of their own, adding them to a rhyming string.

Category: Ducklings

writing Rhyme

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Owls Big Bird Watch

This week in Owls we have had a fun week of learning based on bird watching.

We have researched and found out about many different types of birds and went out to spot as many as we could. We then wrote about what we saw. In Maths we created a tally of how many birds we saw in a period of time…

Category: Owls

owls year3 art year4 maths writing outdoor learning big bird watch DT

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Writing our ingredients

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The children wrote lists of ingredients to go alongside the imaginary recipes they had made in the mud kitchen! It really got the boys interested in writing!

Category: Ducklings

writing outdoor learning

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Name Writing

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We have been busy practising writing our names!

Category: Ducklings

writing fine motor

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Outdoor Physical skills

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Did you know that to be a successful writier our gross motor skills need to be developed too?

The ducklings were building up theor muscles ready to write by pushing tyres around the field. We had lots of fun too!

Have a look here.

Category: Ducklings

duckling writing

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Rainbow Writing

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Practising writing the s sound.

Category: Ducklings

writing fine motor

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