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Building Castles

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This week, Foxes and Otters worked together to build castles out of recyclables following our trip last week. They showed amazing creativity and exceptional teamwork skills!

Our Amazing Castles – Art

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In Art, the children created their own painting based on Paul Klee’s ‘The Castle and the Sun’. They used 2D shapes to draw around to build their castle and then used wax crayon over the lines to resist the paint. The children chose smaller paintbrushes to paint each shape carefully, and then painted the background […]

Bassoon Instrument

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Rachel the musician came into the Moles class to show us her Bassoon instrument and she played it. The pupils enjoyed watching and listened to the sounds.

Berkhamsted Trip

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Yesterday, Fox and Otters went to Berkhamsted Castle to see the old ruins of a real castle from 1066. Although much of the castle is no longer there, our guide had photos of what it used to look like so students could imagine what it would like many, many years ago. It was a fantastic […]

Prepositions are magic

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Moles class learnt the magic of prepositions to change an objects place. Three children created a video and added their own captions. https://fb.watch/GP8ddsWLjo/

Ancient Egypt Trading

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The Moles class pupils drew pictures of clothes, food, jewellery, paper etc on blank trading cards. They learnt how to trade food, clothes, etc with each other and learnt how ancient Egyptians traded their stock, as they didn’t have money.

Creative with Castles

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The children have been learning about Motte and Bailey castles ready for their trip to Berkhamsted Castle next week (Thursday 30th April) They have been working together to build their own castles using different resources.

Money

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This week, we have been learning about money! Students have learned about the value of each coin, how to calculate totals using 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p, and how to create totals using these coins up to the value of £1. Students have been enjoying learning these concepts with the fake coins.

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