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Handwriting fun and games with Year 3

September 14, 2011 by

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To improve their handwriting, Year 3 have been having some fun and games. Our activities have included: How many pegs can you peg on a plate in a minute? How many beads can you pick up with the tweezers in a minute? Sewing and play doe modelling, cutting small squares and drawing patterns. Oh how… [Read more…]

Roald Dahl’s Birthday – Follow that peach

September 14, 2011 by

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On tuesday 13th September Year 2 celebrated Roald Dahl’s birthday by taking part in the mission to roll Jame’s Giant Peach around the school. The children gave their peach a name and wrote on it 5 places they would like to roll it around the school. In English the children have been learning about familiar… [Read more…]

Year 4 stories using PowerPoint

April 7, 2011 by

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In year 4 we have been reading lots of stories in which the characters face a dilemma.  We read lots of Anthony Browne books and talking about the dilemmas the characters were facing and we wrote letters to characters offering them advice.  We also liked his illustrations because there are lots of things hidden in… [Read more…]

Our favourite Horrid Henry Characters 2RW

March 16, 2011 by

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This week the children have been looking at the Horrid Henry books written by Francesca Simon. They found out about Francesca Simon using the internet and wrote down some notes about her and her books.  Today the children wrote about their favourite character in her Horrid Henry stories and wanted to share them on the… [Read more…]

World Book Day

March 4, 2011 by

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Children at Springmead Primary School left their uniform at home for the day to celebrate World Book Day. An assortment of characters took part, from The Enormous Crocodile to Angelina Ballerina while staff dressed as the well known character Where’s Wally. Children from Nursery to Year 6 all took part in a Giant Book Swap… [Read more…]

Our trip to The Lion King

March 4, 2011 by

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By Taylor (6CB) On Wednesday 2nd  March 2011,I went with my school to the Lyceum Theatre. In London to watch the inspirational lion King. We went there because we are doing a whole school project on Africa.  We all got on the coach at 12:30 with excitement The coach began to start moving;  there was… [Read more…]

Official Library Opening and Author Visit!

March 9, 2010 by

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On Monday 1st March a famous children’s author came in to visit our school. He was called John Dougherty. He read poems and parts of his books to each year group that were very funny and made us laugh out loud! His very first book was called Zeus on the Loose, a very humorous story… [Read more…]

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