News Groovy Shoes  School looked very bright and colourful today with the children in their 'groovy shoes'. We will let you know how much money we raised for the Rennie Grove Hospice in due course. Robin Hood Day On Wednesday we had a lovely day imagining that we lived in the time of Robin Hood. During the day the children carried out five activities: ·        Cooking around the camp fire ·        Making bows and arrows ·        Building rafts (mini) and then seeing if they would float ·        Creating and following a trail ·        Designing flags and then playing the game capture the flag The children all thoroughly enjoyed the day and were extremely well behaved. Now the children have experienced these activities we are looking forward to reading about them in some of their literacy during the final weeks of term. Here are some of their comments of the day: "During the day I enjoyed cooking dough balls over the campfire, mmm! They were delicious!" - Jake "I enjoyed making bows and arrows because it was fun to be outside and then shooting at targets" -Noah "I enjoyed everything on Robin Hood day especially flag making because we got to get messy! Also we played a capture the flag came, unfortunately my team lost but it was good fun" - Freya "I really enjoyed toasting bread because it was fun searching for the perfect branch and the bread and jam were delicious" - James "I enjoyed sitting near the campfire and making bread" - Safiya "I loved all the activities but my favourite was the bow and arrows." - Tia "At the end I really enjoyed the hot chocolate and the orange cake!" - George "I enjoyed doing the tracking because you had to follow the arrows. If you see an 'X' that means 'obstacle' " - Davoy "Robin Hood day made me feel like Robin Hood".  Ruby L "I really enjoyed Robin Hood day.  We did lots of fun activities and they were all to do with nature." Joshua W

Literacy We have written the final chapters of our Dragonland fantasy stories and we are beginning to edit and improve them before they are illustrated and published. There are lots of fantastic ideas and many, varied dragons! Homework: Grammar sheet about pronouns and their uses.

Mathematics In Mrs Prowle’s group, we practised different calculation methods and completed some investigations about decimals while Mrs Prowle was away. On her return we resumed our learning about coordinates and translation using the iPads. Mrs Williams and Mrs Gilder’s group are practising putting numbers on a number line - check your active learn account. In Mrs Roche's group we have been looking again at fractions and finding equivalent fractions. We also did some work adding fractions. Homework: Schofield and Sims

Science Maple Class completed our last task as 'Rock Detectives' by studying fossils. We had the chance to handle some ammonite fossils and drew storyboards to show how they formed before using hand lenses and microscopes to do detailed observational drawings.

History All three classes have begun their new topic Stone age to Bronze Age. We have been discussing how historians are able to collect evidence to tell us how people lived 300,000 years ago.