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Today we’ve been learning about the countries that are taking part in the Euros. We have started learning about Switzerland, the host country and will be making fact files.

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Today the pupils have been inspired by the Women's Euro teams and have designed their own kits.

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A fantastic workshop sorting rubbish into order of decomposition, then a litter pick by the Buckshaft entrance to school

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Sight - guiding each other around the room

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Touch - what’s in the bag?

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Taste- bitter, sweet, salty

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Today KS1 were lucky enough to be joined by Life’s a Beach for an assembly, telling us all about plastic pollution

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We ran out of time to try the spring rolls but I hope they enjoyed them!

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After we had practiced with chopsticks and tried different vegetables and dipping sauces, the children chopped their chosen vegetables and made their spring rolls.

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Inspired by our Chinese themed geography, the children explored sinking and floating before designing and making their own boats

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Heron class were our partner class for our experiment looking investigating which variable would affect how far our mouse travelled.

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Discussing algorithms and how we can share equally

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After many weeks of designing, sewing and embellishing, we finally finished our puppets!

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During our writing for change, we focused on the amount of litter that had been left in the local area and the children made posters to encourage people to pick up litter and take dog poo bags home

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In learning about Midsummer's Night Dream, the children were passionate about creating their own potions so they made fairy potion, following instructions and working as a team to make the potion.

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The children created paper template hand puppets. We quickly learned that the bottom was too narrow so they wouldn't fit! Hopefully the real things will be better!

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Nightingale class had a fantastic time learning about the importance of VE day and wrote some lovely postcards to our veterans. Well done Nightingale class.

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Matt Davies visited KS1 and gave us some activities to do. The children loved being creative and creating their own characters. Some are featured below!

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We have been learning about animal groups. The children have been sorting animals into mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish and birds.

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On our trip to Gloucester Cathedral the children had the opportunity to create stained glass windows illustrating some of the things they had been learning about in relation to Christian beliefs about Easter. They created some beautiful designs!

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During our fluency lessons, we have the opportunity to read out to the class. This practices our oracy as well. During Spring 2 we have been focused on our expression - we practiced this reading 'Don't tell fibs'

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We have been learning about multiplication and division during our lessons. We have been working on arrays - learning both the multiplication and division facts that go with each array.

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During World Book Day we learned the Shakespeare play of 'Midsummer Night's Dream'. The children thinking about potions and fairy powers so created their own fairy potions. This included measuring, following instructions and working in a group. Fantastic team work was seen throughout.

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Following our litter pick, the children wanted to create posters to tell people to pick up litter and dog poo, as this was something that we found a lot of in the local area.

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Wow! The children were amazing during our geography day and collected over 17kg of rubbish during our litter pick.

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We have been learning how to type on a keyboard this week, including learning how to write with capital letters and full stops. Great work team!

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Clare then showed us what the inside of the piano looked like whilst playing two pieces of music by Chopin with the piano open. What a brilliant experience!

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During our concert, Clare taught us about the parts of a piano and how it works.

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Today we were lucky enough to have a piano concert performed by Clare Hammond. She performed a range of different classical pieces, educating us about different European composers. The children were a brilliant audience.

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Today we wrote our own riddles to turn in to a Nightingale class riddle book - we have all done really well at keeping our animals secret! Ssshh

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In English this week we have been learning about riddles. We have learnt about the different sentences types and used our reading skills to match riddles to animals.

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We have been learning about jobs during the Spring term. Today we focused on jobs that used the internet. The children read through different captions and matched them to the correct job.

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Our vehicles, with axles and wheels, have now been finished and sent home. We had some fabulous designs and the children worked incredibly hard over a number of weeks. Well done Nightingale!

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Today, Nightingale class spent an hour outside bird watching in the school grounds. This is in support of work Mr Brown is doing with the RSPB. We saw starlings, sparrows, magpies, crows and a chaffinch.

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In computing, we are learning about technology and how to use a laptop. The children have practiced using a mouse to draw pictures and are learning to type on a keyboard.

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We have been learning about plants in science during the Spring term. We have learned the name of key parts of the plant and have learned about the life cycle of a plant, putting photos and captions in order.

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Following our axle investigations, we are now making our cars using the our preferred method of fixing the axle.

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To conclude our series of lessons on weather, the children took it in turns to deliver their own weather report. It was fantastic to listen to the vocabulary they had learned, together with their oracy skills to present great reports! Well done Nightingale

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In DT we have been learning about axles and wheels and investigating the best way to attach the axle to the chassis of our car. This included using fixed axles, using a straw thread the axle through and using cardboard and pegs to support the axle.

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Today we have been recapping our learning of the four main points of the compass. We have been using a map to give our partner directions, using a counter to mark their journey. Great use of oracy Nightingale!

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During no pen day, we had a puzzle morning. Each child had an opportunity to try a variety of puzzles, looking at shape and patterns to complete each task. Well done team!

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Using our Instructions to make a shield 

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Using our Instructions to make a shield 

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After writing our instructions this week, we had time to make our shields. We made sure our instructions made sense and editing them as we went. Once we had made them, we had an opportunity to add a little bit more decoration and sparkle!

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We have been learning to write instructions in English. To understand how to write instructions, we practiced following instructions to make paper cup jellyfish.

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Linking to our Zones of Regulation work, we have been looking at the feelings tree. The children discussed who they thought was happy, sad, scared, calm and a variety of other emotions. This led to discussions about our opinions and understanding of other peoples feelings. Well done Nightingale class.

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Before October half term, we buried a variety of materials in compost to see if they would rot or not. We left the materials for 5 weeks before digging them up.

We then compared this with our predictions.

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Some incredible illustrations on our seasons wheels. The children were able to match the months to the seasons and then draw images that represented them.

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We started our geography work for this term talking about the seasons. The class were given images to discuss what seasons they thought each image belonged to. We had some great discussions. Well done team!

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We learned about the importance of a torah and what they looked like. We then made our own ones and decorated them with special symbols.

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In RE we have been learning about Judaism and have learned how to make a mezuzah

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We have put all of our learning in to practice in our final beebot lesson. We have programmed algorithms and debugged them to make sure our beebot got to where we wanted them to go.