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10 November 2023

Fantastic forest school!

Today Year 4 took part in forest school they had to complete a forest school hunt where they had to find- twigs of different sizes, leaves of various sizes & colours, insects, flowers & birds. Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed this outdoor experience and cannot wait for next Friday!

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20 October 2023

Creative clay tiles

This week year 4 had the opportunity to create their very own clay tiles. We had a wonderful time discovering the process of how clay tiles are made. Some of us even went back to visit with our family later the same day. We were very proud of how year 4 represented waterside! Well done Year…

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20 October 2023

Forest School - den building!

Today we had great fun, making dens!  We worked in teams to plan and build our dens. We had to think carefully about what would be the best location, what we needed, how to build it and what would offer us the most protection from the rain. 

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20 October 2023

Jabberwocky illustrations

This week we have illustrated our jabberwocky poems using the medium of charcoal. We have thoroughly enjoyed experimenting with charcoal and have produced some fantastic pieces of art. Well done Year 4!

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13 October 2023

Forest school - Let’s get creative!

We used a range of natural materials to make a variety of creative items, we had fun creating them, we hope you like them!

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13 October 2023

Awesome Addition

This week in Maths we have been focussing on adding two four digit numbers together with one or more exchange. Year 4 have shown determination in their Maths lessons this week, as at the beginning of the week we found exchanging to be a very tricky method to master. However by the end of the week…

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13 October 2023

Wonderful writing!

This week Year 4 have started their new text 'Charlotte's Web'. We have had some insightful discussions when discussing the book, and have created role on the walls for our main characters to understand their thoughts, feelings and emotions. Towards the end of the week, we acted out some of our…

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5 October 2023

Forest School - Mud and Bugs!

We had great fun today painting with MUD! We also explored and hunted for bugs, the rain meant we found lots of worms!

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28 September 2023

Nature hunt

We had great fun in our first after school, Forest school session, we explored our outdoor environment hunting for twigs, flowers, stones, leaves birds and BUGS! 

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17 July 2023

BeWILDerwood Adventures!

Last week, Year 4 went to BeWILDerwood to explore the outdoors. We had such a fantastic time zooming down zip lines, getting lost in sky mazes and sliding down super speedy slides! Both Manatees and Stingrays represented the school wonderfully and it was so lovely to see the children having a…

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17 July 2023

Let’s Go Fly a Kite!

This afternoon in DT we made kites using straws, feathers, wrapping paper and string in our DT topic ‘Let’s Go Fly a Kite’. We had great fun making them and I was so impressed with how they turned out

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6 July 2023

Transition day in Year 5

Stingrays have become Dolphins today! We have been working hard with a creative piece of writing based on a music video about a girl and her pet giraffe. We have created our own vocabulary word bank with some adventurous adjectives and adverbs. We have enjoyed reading the stories and we look…

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