Articles from January 2012



Bloggers survey of sporting opinions.

Choose your favourite sport and we will start blogging about it. We have 10 bloggers ready to tell you all about these fantastic sports. Create your free online surveys with SurveyMonkey, the world’s leading questionnaire tool. yours sincerely Breaktime Bloggers

Key Stage 1 Homework 31.1.12

Write your own poem about an animal of your choice. Remember Andy Tooze’s Writing Tips: 1. Think of great idea 2. Think of a fabulous first line 3. Don’t panic – be confident! Good luck and have fun!

500 Words

Here is Chris Evans with last year’s winners…. 2012 …It could be you this year!

Writing Tips from Jacqueline Wilson

If you would like to enter the 500 words competition then check out this link: dame-jacqueline-wilson Jacqueline Wilson offers advice on how to write the winning entry. Good luck writing your stories!

YEAR 6 Survey

Can you take part in our survey this week to help year 6 gather some data for their maths lessons? Which Learning Muscle do you use most?

3AG Multiplication medalists.

After a frantic Multiplication medalists session we have new winners in 3AG. All the children have been working very hard to improve their times tables and we are nearly ready to take on the rest of Key stage 2. I hope you join me in celebrating this success. Congratualtions 3AG

Maths Puzzle of the Week 2

Congratulations to everyone who attempted the maths puzzle this week, and well done to all of you who managed to solve it – there were a few different ways of doing it! SIRAJ in 6DL was chosen from the correct entries from the puzzle last week to choose the puzzle this week! This puzzle was [...]

Ever wondered what is inside a TV?

This week Hamzah, Abu Jandal and Malaika attempted to answer the question, what is inside a TV. The best way to do this is to get our hands dirty and take one to pieces. Ever wondered what was inside a tv? on PhotoPeach Do you know how a television works?

Deforestation and destruction poems.

After being truely inspired by our visiting poet Andy Tooze this week, year 3 took on the challenge of wrtiting all about forests.                   Lots of children chose to focus on the animals of the forest. Zahra M Some decided they wanted to talk about the destruction caused. Mariam Others [...]

Mr G’s Puzzle of the week 7.

Congratulations to Aroosa from 6DL, who correctly solved my puzzle from week 6. The zoomed in picture was of course a clothes peg. We had some fantastic guesses and I am pleased to see so many people joining in. So onto this weeks puzzle. I have gone for something extra tricky, a puzzle to beat [...]

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Year 2 visit The Deep

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Year 1 Homework 24.1.12

Year 2 Homework 24.1.12

Year 3 Poetry day.

Today in Year 3 we have been creating exciting animal poetry. We had a poet, Andy Tooze in our class and he taught us three important rules for writing poetry. 1. Start with a great idea or something exciting. 2. Have a great opening. 3. Don’t worry if you get it wrong. Year 3 are [...]

5DH’s Weekly Round-up! 20/01/12

Good afternoon everyone, time for another year 5 instalment! This week we have been busy finding out lots of interesting facts about energy. We researched where energy comes from, what types of fuel we use and whether they are sustainable or non-renewable. What do these words mean? We took part in a carousel of activities: Clear [...]

Maths puzzle of the week

Have a go at this puzzle and submit your answers below, by four sevens and a 1, it means 7,7,7,7,1. good luck! You will have until Thursday night to submit your answers, as the winner will be decided on Friday.

Stop motion animation.

Today I went on a fantastic course to find out all about stop motion animations.   Stop motion animations are just a series of pictures of characters, who are being moved very slowly. With sounds then layered over the top.   Have a look at the animation I made today with the help of Mr [...]

Mr G’s Puzzle of the week 6

First let me start by congratualting everyone who tried to solve my puzzle last week.  The answer was of course fountain, our winner was Aksa from 6GS, who remembered to put her answer into a rainbow sentence.   This week I have an interesting puzzle for you to solve.  My camera accidentally zoomed in when I [...]

Fancy being wonderful at typing?

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