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Year One using 2animate on Purple Mash

As part of Unit One topic the children have been creating a fantasy character that can move, breath fire and sprinkle fairy dust. The children used a tool called 2animate on Purple Mash. They had lots of fun creating but learnt some new computing skills along the way.

Please take a look at a…

Stormbreaker

Miss Pollard's English group have been typing a letter as a characters from Stormbreaker to persuade each other that Alex Rider should or should not be a secret agent. After we finished our letters, we printed it, proof - read it and edited it to make a final draft. 

Miss Pollard is really…

Caterpillar Open Day

Parents and Carers came to help make a Hungry Caterpillar puppet at Shawclough Primary School's Nursery. We had lots of fun. Thanks to everyone who attended.

Train Information Text

Mr Clegg's English group are looking at information text and will be writing their own information text all about trains.  This topic currently fits in with the book we are reading in English, which is The Railway Children.

Can you find out any interesting facts about trains?

Is coding the most important language in the world?

Is Coding the Most Important Language in the World?

Activity

What things did they say and show to change people’s understanding of coders and coding?

Can you list as many cool places you can work or cool jobs you can have that use coding?

Please answer the following questions…

Ipad fun

We have been using the ipads to take photographs and videos of each other. We could see ourselves on the whiteboard and it was very funny.

We wanted to share our favourite song with you. Miss Marsden taught us the song in music. We miss you Miss Marsden!

WHAT IS YOUR FAVOURITE SONG?

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Rocket Science

We're very excited here in Unit 3 to be taking part in the Rocket Science project.  The project is in conjunction with ESA, RHS and UK Space Agency.

Two kilograms of rocket (Eruca sativa) seeds were launched on Soyuz 44S on 2nd September 2015 with European Space Agency astronaut Andreas…

The Romans

Unit 3's topic this term is The Rotten Romans.  Here are some useful web links to help your child find out more at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/topics/zwmpfg8

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/romans/

http://www.primaryhomeworkhelp.co.uk/Romans.html

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Vincent Van Gogh - Sunflowers

Year One children have been learning about the artist Vincent Van Gogh. They have looked at his paintings, in particular the sunflowers.

The children created their own paintings of sunflowers. 

Please take a look through the slideshow and leave a comment.

One Friday Art Exhibition

On Thursday 24th March, Mrs Mitchell took some pupils from Unit 3 to visit Thrum Hall Church.  The children had a great time looking their Easter Art exhibition entitled One Friday. Our current year 6 even contributed to the exhibition creating an incredibly creative "Last Supper", with Miss…

SPAG

The English language is notoriously difficult. Make sure you brush up on your SPAG skills on the links below:

• http://www.topmarks.co.uk/english-games/7-11-years/spelling-and-grammar
• http://www.grammarbank.com/grammar-revision.html

Do you know what all the words mean at the top of…

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages

FDP is an essential part of year 6 maths.

Below you will find plenty of revision to help keep you busy at home:

• http://nrich.maths.org/public/leg.php?code=19
• https://uk.ixl.com/math/year-6/convert-between-percents-fractions-and-decimals
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