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  • An Arctic Afternoon

    Published 01/02/22

    Yesterday afternoon, Amazon Class enjoyed an Arctic Afternoon, which started by debating, 'Would you like to live in the Arctic?'

    The children used sentence stems to share their opinions;

    "I would not like to live in the Arctic because it is too cold and I don't like the cold."

    "Perhaps it would be exciting to live in the Arctic because you can do tobogganing and go on a snowmobile."

    "I don't think I would like to live in the Arctic because I wouldn't want to wear animal skins because I really like animals."

    "If I lived in the Arctic I could build snowmen every day!"

    "In my opinion it would be good to live in the Arctic because you can build an igloo and live in it."

    "I would like to live in the Arctic because I would like to have an Arctic hare."

    "I would and I wouldn't like to live in the Arctic because I love playing in snow but I don't want to eat meat all the time because I like sweets too much!"

    We then took part in a carousel of activities;

    - Making Inuit snow glasses to protect our eyes from the sun rays reflecting off the snow.

    - Working as a team to build an igloo using sugar cubes.

    - Exploring some wonderful books all about the Arctic, including breath- taking photographs.

    - Using the computers to draw a picture of the Arctic and type a sentence.

    We used lots of different skills!

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  • Sketching Penguin Chicks

    Published 31/01/22

    Amazon Class have been developing their observation and sketching skills, practising different techniques such as shading and hatching to create these super baby penguin sketches.

     

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  • A visitor from Rhine Class

    Published 30/01/22

    This week, Amazon Class enjoyed having a visitor from Rhine Class, who shared her wonderfully written myth with the children. The children were in awe of her writing and suitably inspired to continue to grow as young writers. It’s always so special when the children can share their learning with each other.


    A huge well done to our special visitor!

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  • Dancing Through the Decades

    Published 30/01/22

    Over the past few weeks, the children in Amazon Class have been learning popular dance moves from the 1950s-2020s, during our Thursday PE sessions.

    Dance is a fantastic way to keep fit and also aids co-ordination and memory. We have had such a lot of fun learning these dances and the children have been fantastic!

    You can find our video here: https://fb.watch/aSMSTdChz4/ 

    We hope you enjoy our final cut!

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  • Rekenreks!

    Published 18/01/22

    Today Year 1 have been exploring our new Rekenreks in maths. Rekenreks help children to develop early number sense and addition and subtraction strategies.

    We're very lucky to have a new class set to support the teaching of maths in KS1.

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