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Mrs Broomhall’s AM group Homework 24.1.19

Mrs Broomhall’s AM group Homework 24.1.19

This week's homework is as follows. Y6 English-p58-49 Fronted adverbials (commas) Maths-p66-67 Reflection. Comprehension-p32- School Herald Y5 English-p46-47 Fronted adverbials (commas) Maths-p57 Shape Spellings are all words starting with the prefix...

Robins are learning their 5s!

Robins are learning their 5s!

Robins are beginning to learn their times tables in class and what this actually means. We used cookie cereal to represent the 5 times table today and even managed to resist eating any! Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be...

Robins’ Royal Chocolate Cake Storyboards

Robins’ Royal Chocolate Cake Storyboards

This week, Robins have been reading and responding to the text Small Knight and George and the Royal Chocolate Cake. They've really enjoyed the story and have developed their prediction skills. Today, they had to read summaries of the text to draw images and complete...

High Drama in the Beeches!

High Drama in the Beeches!

As part of our English unit the Beeches are writing newspaper reports. We had a visitor who came in to read out a statement from the local hospital regarding a house fire. The class acted as reporters and wrote down some fantastic notes. Look out for their 'scoops'...

Beeches ‘Get in the Game’

Beeches ‘Get in the Game’

The Beeches were showing off their basketball talents today on a brisk but sunny afternoon. Passing, receiving and dribbling with the ball  were the skills that we were working on. Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to...

A plague on both your houses!

A plague on both your houses!

Today in Mrs Hope's English class we have been having a fantastic time acting out the death of Tybalt and Mercutio in the famous fight scene from Romeo and Juliet. We had sword fights and fury as we acted out the death of these two characters. We will be using the...

Nightingales had everything crossed!

Nightingales had everything crossed!

We couldn't decide if we were doing art, a science investigation or a maths calculation when we did colour mixing. We wanted to mix our own paint to make the colour brown so that we could use it to print stone colours on our 3-D castles we are going to make in...

Practical measuring!

Practical measuring!

Today in Bluebells we have been estimating and measuring volume and capacity. The children worked in small groups to estimate how much liquid was in different containers and then measured it to check how close they were. The Bluebells were very careful when measuring...

Robot Builders in Y5/Y6

Robot Builders in Y5/Y6

Article 28: You have the right to a good quality education. You should be encouraged to go to school to the highest level you can. As part of our new topic on instructional writing, Mrs Broomhall's morning class have been enriching their vocabulary by designing...

Bible study in Snowdrops

Bible study in Snowdrops

As part of our study of Christianity, the Snowdrops have been looking at passages from the Bible and considering how they could be used in a modern-day context. The children analysed the texts and looked for key vocabulary which was linked to various feelings and...