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The children have been expressing their creativity with our autumn leaves. They have been using the paint sticks to leaf print onto the paper. 
 

This week we have read The Gruffalo! We have enjoyed reading the story and have selected key nouns and verbs from the story to add actions too. We explored these key words to ensure our understanding of the story. We loved joining in with retelling the story using our new actions! 

Team Daffodils have been working hard to recite numbers to 5 and beyond! The children have been making the numberblocks and counting how many. We even had a competition to see who could make the largest numberblock, counting all the blocks! Well done. 

Team Daffodils have been sharing what makes their family and home special to them. We have look at families and shared how they are all different but all so special. We then explored our family special place - our homes! We shared our favourite things about our homes. In provision, we drew and…

Daffodils have enjoyed singing 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star' adding in actions. In provision, the children have been carefully threading string around their star as they sing the song. They even raced to see if they could finish threading before the song ends! Super fine motor skills…

Orchard have been learning all about Islam this half term and have focused on stories of the prophets. They have found it really interesting to learn about these and see the links between many Christian stories they already new.

LO: when i use mark making tools, my movements will come from my shoulder.

The Daisies have been creating letters to Santa, they have drawn a picture of what they would like and asked very nicely for Santa to bring it them. Some children have asked for a scooter, a train track but most have…

In PSHE this week, we have been understanding influences. It was really interesting hearing the children's favourite celebrities: everyone from Taylor Swift, footballers to Jesus, Paul Hollywood and Stephen Mulhern! 

This week in geography, we have been learning about multi-cultural Cardiff. We have learnt about the yearly Mela Festival they have and how it celebrates different cultures and ethnicities, to bring everyone together. As our task, we designed a poster to advertise next year's…

Mr Taylor would like to say a very big well done to the Year 4 team, for a poignant Remembrance Assembly. The children wrote some thought-provoking poems in groups which they shared during the assembly, alongside some lovely art work depicting poppies in Flanders Fields. 

In computing this week, we have been using our amazing coding skills to create some incredible maze games! Team Starlings have worked hard to use boolean variables, 'if-then' statements and loops to successfully create some excellent maze games. 

This week in Science, Team Starlings have been looking at the properties of materials. In this picture, we are testing the hardness of various materials by seeing how easy it is to scratch them. We then used our magnifying glass to see if there were any visible marks on our objects.