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Today we tidied the gardening area and got the soil ready to begin planting this year’s crops. 

Today we’ve been using the microscopes. We had a play with them to of us them and try to look at different objects around the classroom using them.

Today we made triangles, drew triangles and cut out triangles as part of our work on Mr Rush. 

It’s time for the RSPB’s big birdwatch again. We will take part on Friday afternoon. Please send children in with warm clothes, hats and scarves on Friday so we can sit outside to watch birds on Friday afternoon. If you have any binoculars that you would like to bring in, please send them in for…

This week we have been perfecting our tagging skills in art!

We have been learning about the Anglo Saxons.They invaded Britain in AD 406.

In maths we have been doing multiplication.

In science we have been doing skeletons.

Some of our class have taken part in whole class reading over the past two weeks. We have enjoyed reading Paddington, echo reading, searching for vocabulary in the text and answering questions. Here we are highlighting key vocabulary in the text.

We’re all very excited in St Mary’s at the moment. We’ve borrowed a microscope kit from the Royal Microscopic Society and we can’t wait to use it!

In maths year 2 have been making arrays with counters and trying to work out what the calculations are for each of the arrays.

Nursery have been drawing the characters from the story The Gruffalo! We heard s for snake and had a go at writing the letter for the sound s! Nursery are also working very hard on their name writing development! 

We have been getting creative and freely painting our own Gruffalo! 

Reception learnt about the parable The Seed Sower. We started to talk about the key messages from the story. We then planted our own cress! We are already watching closely to see what happens to the seeds.