A massive well done to everyone in Owl, Falcon and Hawk classes this week for their fantastic performance of Go for Gold. I am sure everyone who was able to come along and watch one of the performances will agree that the pupils did an amazing job of remembering a lot of lines (including some …
Category Archive: Class News
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Mar 12 2012
Targets
In Kite and Eagle class, we focus on a new spelling rule and strategies each week. Our current writing focus is based on text structure and organisation. Most of us are making sure that we can organise our writing into sensible paragraphs with an appropriate opening and closing. We are also exploring how we can …
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Mar 12 2012
Didcot Music Festival
At the moment we are busy learning a range of songs from the musicals! These will be performed with other schools in the Didcot area during the annual music festival. Many of our children thoroughly enjoy the opportunity to sing with others and perform for their parents at such a special event.
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Mar 12 2012
Operation Christmas Child
This year, we supported the work of ‘Operation Christmas Child’ and worked together to create a combination of individual and communal shoe boxes. They were sent to children across the world who otherwise not have had anything at Christmas due to war, poverty or famine. Everyone in school was very excited by this project and …
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Mar 12 2012
SATS
In order to prepare our pupils for this, our next topic will be an author study. This will give the children in Kite and Eagle class, the opportunity to become familiar with another children’s author and to complete some exciting reading and writing activities. Our chosen author this year is Frank Cottrell Boyce, and we …
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Mar 12 2012
Plas Pencelli
Some of the children in Kite and Eagle class are currently very excited about their forth coming visit to Plas Pencelli for our residential visit. Every year we take a group of children to this beautiful location to enjoy a range of outdoor activities which promote communication, confidence and collaboration as well as physical and …
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Mar 12 2012
Bullets, Blitz and Bravery
Currently, we are learning about World War Two. We have been learning about when World War Two happened and what happened, as well as which countries were involved and what happened. In addition to this, we have explored the impact of the war on the people of Britain and some of the strategies that helped, …
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Mar 12 2012
Anti-bullying week
During anti-bullying week, we spent some time thinking about the fact that, ‘Words can hurt’ and that what we say to one another matters. Consequently, during this week we made a special effort to give compliments to one another and to celebrate all of our strengths and special qualities. We discussed what bullying is and …
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Mar 12 2012
Greece is the word
In the second part of the autumn term, we began a new topic learning all about Ancient Greece. We focused on learning about many aspects of life in Ancient Greece, such as: Greek theatres, myths, homes, clothes and food! We enjoyed a ‘Bush tucker trial’ style activity where we found that olives weren’t very popular …
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Mar 12 2012
IMPS visit
As an important follow up to this learning, we were lucky enough to be invited to an Injury Minimisation Programme for Schools (IMPS) training session at the JR Hospital in Oxford. We had an amazing time, learning some very important life saving skills such as CPR and how to use public defibrillators safely. In addition …
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