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20 March 2025

Making butterflies!

In maths today, Class 1 have been exploring how to double numbers and using our fabulous numicon to help us. 
 

The children used the numicon pieces to create their own butterflies and then recorded each double as a number sentence. All the children remembered that to show a double you get an…

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20 March 2025

Class 4 - 5 times reader challenge 20.3.25

Congratulations to Hope, who was our 5 times reader challenge winner this week.

 

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20 March 2025

Scholastics Book Fair

Thanks to our 4 fantastic helpers from Class 4, we raised enough money from the Scholastics Book Fair to purchase 44 books for the school. Well done and thank you to everybody who bought a book.

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20 March 2025

Staffordshire plate competition

Our year 5 pupils have entered a competition to design the next Staffordshire plate. This competition is between all primary schools in Staffordshire and 9 winning designs will be made into real plates.

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20 March 2025

We love outdoor Thursdays

Class 2 started to plant their sunflower seeds this morning. We are going to pop them in a nice sunny spot in the classroom until they’re ready to pop in our class area outside.

 

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19 March 2025

Chicks!

Class 1 were very kindly invited down to take a look at GHU5’s Living Eggs Chicks. We popped down on Tuesday to see the eggs in the incubator and were so fascinated by them! On Wednesday we went back down to see that 5 of the chicks had hatched and were warming up and drying out in their incubator…

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19 March 2025

Lent reflections

Today we looked back at the plans we made for Lent a few weeks ago. We reflected back on what we planned we could give up, or what new skill we could learn during Lent. We discussed obstacles to our plans, how to overcome them and how it is never to late to start and make that important change. 

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18 March 2025

Class 3 Easter Play

Wow - we are so proud of the performance by Class 3, in our Easter play of The Tale of Three Trees. 

Your singing and acting was incredible. Each and every one of you shone on the stage. A very well done! We hope you all loved it! 

 

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17 March 2025

Holy Week

This term in class 2 the children have been exploring salvation and what Easter means to Christian’s.

They have been looking at the main events of Holy Week and how Christian’s feel about what happened to Jesus.

Today the children thought carefully about the different things that made Jesus’…

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17 March 2025

Minibeast hunt

In science and topic lessons Class 1 have been learning all about minibeasts.

Today we had a Big Word Alert in our science lesson where we learnt what the words Invertebrate and Anthropoid mean. We explored what makes up an insect and what the minibeasts needs to have to be classed as an…

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14 March 2025

We love to read!

Class 2 loved exploring all of the different books scholastic had to offer this year at our book fair here at Anson.

We love reading here in class 2, so it’s lovely to see the children taking this love of reading back home with them to share with their grown ups!

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14 March 2025

Class 4 Classifying Nature

We have been searching for forms of life in the outdoor classroom and classifying what we have found.

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