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  • Lila and the Secret of Rain

    Published 21/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    We have been exploring Lila and the Secret of Rain in our English lessons and today we retold the story using drama. We discussed our likes and dislikes whilst looking for patterns in the text. Ask me to retell you the story.
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  • Rain Gauge

    Published 21/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    We have been learning about the weather in our topic lessons and have been looking at different weather instruments scientists use to measure weather. We then made rain gauges and put them in our school garden. We will measure the rainfall over the n
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  • Measuring weight

    Published 15/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This week, we have been using balance scales to help us measure the weight of different objects. We started by looking at which objects in the classroom weighed more or less. We then measured the weight of objects using non-standard units such as cub
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  • Seasons Wheel

    Published 14/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This week we began to learn about the different seasons and created a 'seasons wheel' with different pictures to help us remember the weather and events of each different season. Ask me about the seasons!
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  • Art To Start

    Published 11/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    We had such a lovely Art to Start! We love having our adults in class. We focussed on artist David Hockney’s ‘My Window’ collection, where he followed the changing of the seasons through digital artwork. We linked this to Jeanie Bak
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  • The Littlest Yak

    Published 07/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    What a day! Today, we had LAS Theatre come in and perform their show 'The Littlest Yak', there was singing, dancing and puppets - it was AMAZING.  After the show, the theatre company showed us how to make our own puppets and develop our
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  • Poetry from Seterah!

    Published 04/03/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    We were treated to a lovely session with Seterah who is a local poet and also Freya's mummy! The children loved listening to the different rain sounds created by the instruments and also the little friends bought along! 
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  • A World of Weather, Love to Learn

    Published 28/02/25, by Rebecca Welvens
    TERM 4 LOVE TO LEARN! Our topic this term, ‘A World of Weather’, is unsurprisingly all about the four seasons and weather. Your next task is to create some weather art. You can choose any weather you would like to represent and in a
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  • Personal development week in Team O

    Published 24/02/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This week our value focus is creativity! In our personal development lesson we talked about creativity and the different types we might need for different activities. We then used our creative imaginations to design and make a monster! 
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  • Measurement

    Published 24/02/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    This week in maths we are studying measurement. Today we were looking at objects with different lengths and comparing them. We made sure we used mathematical language to describe things that were 'longer than and shorter than'. We began to co
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  • Welcome Back Team O!

    Published 24/02/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    Welcome back and welcome to term 4! It was wonderful to see such happy faces bounding through the school gates this morning. We have hit the ground running with personal development and the children have settled well!  Year 1 will now be d
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  • Literacy Week

    Published 14/02/25, by Claire O'Flaherty
    The RAPS Literacy Festival will be running from Monday 3rd March to Friday 7th March! This will be a week long festival where we celebrate reading and writing in all its different forms. Throughout the week, the children will be takin
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