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With a week to go until Primary SATs I wanted to share with you some practical advice to help prepare your child for these tests. Try to manage and limit the amount of time your child spends on revision and follow the ‘little and often’ rule which will allow...
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Lots of singing today as our younger pupils learnt their alphabet and we started to build our phonics and develop basic writing skills. Younger pupils love looking at the brightly coloured chart on our learning space wall and as they become proficient they will learn to write the three...
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Our younger pupils today looked at and used the multiplication table poster to support their understanding of the times tables. Singing the tables out loud re-inforces learning and improves retention for those who are visual learners and who like to learn through repetition.
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In today’s lesson we talked about dinosaurs and prehistoric ages and what it may have been like to live in times when dinosaurs were alive. The younger children used plastic and rubber toys and models to plan stories and to add pictures to their words. We also used picture...
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In today’s lesson we talked about the ocean and the creatures that we may find in the world’s seas and oceans. We discussed how plastic waste is ruining and polluting the oceans. One pupil used tracing paper to trace a sea picture and added my name to it as...
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We went outside and it was a cloudy day and we talked about the different cloud shapes we could see and make out in the sky. We then linked this to the cloud images in one of my children’s educational books ‘Me, You and the cloudy sky’ as well...
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Some of the older pupils continued with their work on the Famous Five books during today’s session using the support and planning sheets to inform their thinking and written responses.
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Today we had a reading day at Elisa’s Tutorial School and one of our favourite story series is the Enid Blyton Famous Five series. Our pupils used the sheets we have to guide them in reviewing their favourite book and the characters they most enjoyed.
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Certificates of Achievement were handed out today – Maths and English are both subjects in which pupils are recognised in terms of improvement and making exceptional advancement in.
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Today we looked at all the different products we are unable to recycle so easily and talked about what we could build with these items. We read the story about Frankie The Little Adventurer.
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