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Two weeks ago, we made our own dragon pots. We added soil and planted the seeds. We decided how much water we thought they would need and measured it carefully. We were given the task of looking after them at home to see if we could make them grow and how tall we could get … Read more

Today we went on a magic carpet ride and used our imagination to compose some expanded noun phrases. We imagined we were high above a majestic city of domes and towers. There were some fabulous ideas that gave us lots of inspiration for our writing.

On Tuesday we have been thinking about story settings. We are starting to build our own ideas ready for when we write our own adventure stories. We used images from ‘Journey’ to compose sentences that include prepositions. Ther were some very imaginative ideas.

On Wednesday we have been learning how to program a simple algorithm using block coding. There was some super team work to help each other!

On Tuesday we were giving our partners instructions to reach certain points in a grid. We used quarter and half turns, clockwise and anti-clockwise, left, right, forwards and backwards.  We had to think very carefully when we had to give a block of instructions to our partner!

After 2 weeks our caterpillars have grown very big and they are nearly ready to turn into their chrysalis.

To make up for the disappointment of missing out on the Wrexham football tournament, we held our own in school. Lots of talent on display, lots of goals and lots of fun.

We have had lots of fun the last two weeks in forest school.  We have been whittling twigs, making stick men, putting on shows, playing games, relaxing in the hammock and enjoying hot chocolate and biscuits.