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Literacy and Topic This week’s theme was something a bit hairy and has 8 legs……spiders!!! We read the story ‘Spider Sandwiches’ by Claire Freedman and it inspired us to make

Topic We have been learning about minibeasts as part of our topic work. This week’s theme was snails and we are very lucky to have our very own giant african

Topic Our current topic is ‘Minibeasts’. We have been learning about what a minibeast is and what features they may have. We talked about the different types of minibeasts there

Phonics We have been revisiting some of the Phase 3 digraphs we need a little bit more practise with and we have been finding fun ways to write words with

Health and Fitness Week This week we have taken part in All Saints’ annual Health and Fitness week. It is a week where we go off timetable and enjoy a

Literacy We have been learning about healthy living and eating this week so in our Literacy lessons we read the story ‘Supertato’ which is all about some superhero veggies! We

P.E This week in P.E we have been focusing on cricket skills. We played a fun game first having to move the balls around our bodies whilst running around the

Easter We have been learning about the Easter story this week and celebrating all things Easter. We ate hot cross buns and talked about the significance of the cross. We

Topic We visited Africa this week! We found the country on our class globe and learnt about it’s climate. We focused on Kenya and learnt about the Maasai Tribe, how

Acorn Class 8th-12th March 2021 It has been so lovely to be reunited this week with all the Acorns and we have even welcomed two new members too! It has

Christingle On Monday, we celebrated Christingle. We learnt about the meaning of Christingle and what each part means. We watched a special live Christingle Service at Ely Cathedral- we were

Snowball throwing! We have been really working on our gross motor skills this term and today Mrs Marsden challenged us to see how good we are at throwing snowballs. We

Maths This week, we have been learning about 2D shapes. We talked about the properties and names of a circle, triangle, square and rectangle. We went on a shape hunt

Literacy This week, we have been learning about lists. We talked about the features of a list and why we might need to make them. The Acorns came up with

Topic This week, we celebrated Diwali. We learnt about how it is celebrated and the traditions that are followed. We then made our very own salt dough diva lamps. We

Acorn Class 9th- 13th November Topic This week we learnt about Remembrance Day. We talked about the why every year we remember 11th November every year as a sign of

Literacy This week, we learnt how to segment sounds to spell a word. Mrs Marsden introduced us to phoneme fingers and phoneme frames to help us. We had to talk