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 The Juniors have come to school today looking amazing! They were asked to come dressed as a rockstar as part of our Maths Week England celebrations. I have to say that they really went to town and they totally rocked the rockstar look! Well done Juniors, you rock! 

Today for Maths Week England we took part in an online escape room called The Bullion Heist. We had to solve lots of clues and learn lots of maths to solve it and recover the gold bullion which had been stolen by the Metza tribe.  There were 5 missions to complete and some were really tricky.  We managed to solve the escape room though with only a few questions that we couldn’t figure out straight away.  As part of it we learnt about prime numbers, square numbers, factors and palindromes.  What a busy morning! 

 Today is the first day of Maths Week England and we have started to plan an enterprise project. Miss B gave us £10 and said we had to plan and cost a project that would make us more money by the end of the week. We each came up with ideas of how to make money then we had a vote.  We had to cost each of the activities so we knew we were going to be able to make money. We also took part in an outdoor maths lesson about time and estimating where we had to estimate how many hops, skips or runs we could do in 90 seconds. We found out that 90 seconds is a LONG time when you are running up and down the playground!

 This afternoon we have talked about e safety and how to make sure we stay safe online. We have talked about how to safely share information and who we should share it with as well as thinking about gaming and keeping our information private. We have begun to design posters and talked about our use of technology in school. We also looked at the CEOP logo and talked about how we can report things that make us uncomfortable. Here are some games that may help you to stay safe online;  https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-internet-safety-games-kids-cyber-smart/

Adventure, fantasy, sci-if : there are so many genres to choose from and sometimes it is hard to know what to choose. We have read a range of authors from Ahlberg to Williams, yet there are so many we haven’t read..YET! To highlight some of our favourites, we chose a  brilliant read  to recommend to others. We  crafted super sentences  to write a  blurb , which will hopefully encourage someone else to read the book. Which book would you like to read next?

 Leopards have been working super hard on their times tables and today some of them were presented with certificates for their effort. We are going to continue to practice our times tables ready for an exciting and interesting competition coming up. We may be challenging you so get practicing!

  Yesterday afternoon we had our first formal debate in Topic and loved every minute of it. We had the statement: This house believes that Scientists were right to demote Pluto from planet status to dwarf planet status. We looked at the language and structure of a debate then did some research into the reasons behind the statement before finally having our debate which we all really enjoyed.  

I just wanted to say a huge well done to Leopards, who pulled together a great Harvest service in record time.  You're all wonderful! Mrs C

 Today a planetarium came in, it was so realistic ! Isaac W I learnt a lot about space today. Bea I really loved the planetarium it was so magical it made me cry. Florence I loved the planetarium it was so fun! Robert I loved the planetarium because it blew my socks off with everything I learnt. William I liked the planetarium so much because it was so fun to learn about all the planets. Sol The planetarium was amazing, there were lots of facts that I didn’t know about. Oscar It was so cool. Isabella I loved the planetarium because I loved seeing all the planets and I loved Saturn’s rings. Samuel When I went in it felt like I was actually in space. Elsie The planetarium was amazing! Jess When we saw Saturn’s rings it was really cool. Emma It was really good when we saw the planets and their size. Layla When I came out of the planetarium my eyes were hurting because of the light. Olivia I loved the part where we first went it because it was a surprise. Amber I loved Saturn’s rings w...

 This afternoon we have had lots of fun with magnets. We had to help some scientists who had accidentally mixed up their sand, spoons, paper clips and coins. We decided to try magnets to see if they would help us to collect the magnetic objects. We had a lot of fun playing with different magnets 

 Over the last few weeks, we've been on a mission to make Blackberry jam. We started by going on a walk around Taddington (led by the locals) to collect the Blackberries. The children worked so well together as a team that they were very fruitful. The children decided that whilst we were walking, it would be a good idea to take some bin bags and do a spot of letter picking at the same time, this proved to be less fruitful, which we were delighted about. On our return, we froze the berries, ready for the next week. The following week, we made the jam. The children split into 3 groups and rotated around the different activities. As a collective they managed to; split the wood using a bill hook and mallet ready to use for kindling, collect birch bark to start the fire, light the fire, maintain the fire. They also, prepared the Blackberries, added the other ingredients to the mixture and cooked the jam on the fire. The jam was then left to cool and transferred into jars for t...