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Class 1 are exploring all things Chinese New Year this week. So far we have listened to the language and we have learned how to say "Hello I am___" in Mandarin.

We have all tried to use Chinese symbols to write our name, it was very tricky and the symbols were much more complex than our…

Class 1 have listened to the story of the Zodiac and have acted out the story using animal masks. We remembered parts in the story and that the rat and the cat had a lift across from the Ox, but the rat was not kind and pushed the cat off! We had such fun reenacting the story and learning about…

This afternoon we took part in the Big Bird watch, counting how many birds we saw in our school grounds and keeping a tally of which type of bird it was each time we spotted one. It made us think, what could we do to encourage more wildlife in our school? 
 

Today we spent some time in our lovely school grounds spotting birds and recording our findings. We also spotted a lovely sign of Spring - snowdrops! 

We had a great morning at Stafford Fire Station learning how to stay safe.

It was a very rainy Thursday this week but that doesn’t stop us!

With wellies on and our hoods up we made sure that our birds have lots to nibble on for the week ahead.

We have been investigating sound in Science. We understand that sound is created by vibrations. We created some cup and string devices and measured the sound using a Data Logger. We know that sound is measured in decibels (DB). 

Class 1 have been discovering different emotions and how to manage those feelings.

We listened the beautiful story Find Your Happy and listened to how the character finds his happy after experiencing emotions of feeling sad, shy, angry, worried. One of the things the character does is think of…

After learning all about birds and how to identify them Class 1 headed out to complete our big garden bird watch. We put on our rain suits so that we could lay down to camouflage ourselves and to not scare the birds away We tried our best to be quiet and headed out to the different areas of our…

In preparation for our Big Garden Big Watch Class 1 have been learning all about birds, watched a video on how to encourage birds into our gardens and how to identify each bird. We looked at the markings on the different birds and listened to their bird songs. Class 1 enjoyed sharing what birds…

This term in art Class 2 are training to be sculptor.

Today we practiced our pinching pot method and made our very own pots!

More still to come…

We have had lots of fun using the gymnastics equipment in the hall.