Articles from March 2012



3AG sign off Spring term on a high!

As the bell rang for the end of Spring term, 3AG rushed to take a picture of their fantastic achievement of the final day. This term 3AG have developed fantastically as learners and their collaboration skills now allow them to be a wonderful team. Behaviour in 3AG has vastly improved this term and as a [...]

Saphia’s Killer Cat Report

Saphia used all the features of reports, her Talk for Writing text map and her target card to write a report about Lions. We have been looking the Diary of a Killer Cat in Literacy and decided to research real killer cats. This was the end result. I’m sure Saphia would love to know what [...]

3AG Reading Circuit – Carl and Ellie’s Married Life!

In 3AG we have been looking at the PIXAR short film: Carl and Ellie’s married life! The video follows two people in love throughout their life. We have been exploring the themes throughout the video, especially the effect the music has on the viewer. Here is the original Followed by some of our own versions [...]

Maths Puzzle of the Week 6

A big congratulations to Yusra in year 6 for solving the puzzle. This week Yusra has chosen the type of puzzle and it is as follows…. Detective Dahlia, needs your help before her case deadline, which is Friday lunchtime. Good luck, Miss Lawton.

Year 3 take on a Learning treasure hunt!

A super Tuesday was topped off for Year 3 in Literacy when they took part in a wonderfully fun learning hunt. Each stage of the hunt posed a new problem and a challenge for us to solve. The hunt helped us all work collaboratively and listen to the suggestions and ideas of those around us. [...]

20 Words to describe…

Over the past week Year 3 have been looking at selecting and improving the words we use to describe everything around us. We have looked at ourselves and we can describe ourselves fabulously and the Year 3 pupils will be posting some of their fantastic descriptions over the coming days. So if you only had [...]

YEAR 6 VISIT B.R.I

YEAR 6 AT Bradford Royal Infirmary on PhotoPeach Year 6 visited Bradford Royal Infirmary this week and learnt some key life saving skills. We had a go at CPR using training dolls. We all left the hospital with our fingers in little plaster casts too – but don’t worry we didn’t break our fingers it [...]

Maths Puzzle of the Week 5

The previous puzzle was quite tricky and unfortunately no-one managed to solve it correctly, so here is a sequence puzzle for you to have a go at. Have a look at the sequence What number comes next? 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, ___ Try to come up with a rule that makes [...]

World Maths Day

World Maths Day was a great success thanks to the staff and children who took part. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Over the course of the day 293,571,831 questions were answered correctly and each and every member of our school contributed towards that. A massive congratualtions is in order! I [...]

Key Stage 1 Homework 5.3.12

Hello there Key Stage 1! The blog homework this week will earn you 15 points! Tell us everything you know about the circus so far. Make sure you write in full sentences and use capital letters and full stops. Ask an adult to read your comment with you before you press send.