“We have the best prices starting at $1!

“We make your bills smaller with our prices…”

“Remember our prices cannot be beaten!”

 “We have it all! Groceries, toys, DVD’s, clothes, sports equipment and more!”

“You want it…We have it!”

Have we persuaded you to come in and buy from the Year 3 class shop? We had a lot of fun designing persuasive posters and adverts to entice customers to come and shop with us. We have bargains galore!

Year 3 Dolphins have not only been co-operatively building a class shop, they have also been busy:  Estimating the cost of their shopping; finding the totals and, just as importantly, checking their change!

It’s been great fun to work together, learning from each other and of course, having the chance to shop during ‘school time’! Super work Year 3!  Take a look at the photos of our amazing shop and super-duper Maths calculations.

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In Osprey class this half term, as part of our PSHCE lessons, we are looking at how to be a good friend.  In our circle times we have talked about what makes a good friend then wrote our ideas on ‘colourful bricks’ to create a Friendship Wall.  Some of our thoughts included:

A friend is someone who…

• makes us laugh
• cares for us
• helps us
• we can trust
• we can talk to

To show what good friends we are in Osprey and how much we trust each other, everyone got the chance to try a Trust Fall.  This is an exercise where a person allows themselves to fall from a height and trusts their friends to catch them and stop them from hitting the ground.  Everyone was really brave and had a go and you’ll be pleased to know we are all trustworthy friends and caught each other.

If you want to know how to be a good friend, drop in to Osprey class and look at our Friendship Wall.  Soon there will also be a compliment tree which you will be more than welcome to add a compliment to!

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What wonderful colour mixing and brush control from the Year 3 Dolphins! They have brought a ‘blast’ of beautiful colour into our classroom.  The bright and bold colour creations was inspired by our Numeracy work on  shape and our Social Studies work – looking at different climates around the world.  Can you feel which colours may make you feel ‘cold’ and which colours may make you feel ‘hot’?

The art work of Kandinsky was the original source of inspiration for these designs, yet the line and form were taken from the US artist, Alma Lee.  The end products, lively colour and happy designs are the creations of the one and only talented Year 3  –  well done Dolphins!

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As part of our Journeys topic this half term, Year 1 has been learning all about different ways of travelling. During our “taking flight” week, we learned all about different animals that fly, both at night and during the day. We also brainstormed all different sorts of objects that travel in the sky. One of those objects was an airplane!

One super fun activity the children did was learn how to make a paper airplane and then they got to take their planes outside and watch them take flight! It was great to see how interested the children were in learning to fold their airplane (remember lots of straight edges!) and also really enjoyed decorating them. Please read on to see the amazing paper airplanes flying by Year 1!

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Recently in our Literacy classes, the Year 5s have been learning about persuasive techniques.  People use these skills to persuade others in different situations, for example, from children persuading their parents in their home life, to candidates in a presidential campaign! We have had fun making persuasive posters, selling different products.  We also created conversations to exchange items in shops.

We are now focusing on a very famous man and his very famous speech – Martin Luther King Junior. We spent a long time listening to his speech and looking for the persuasive techniques he used.  We discussed and wrote down how we felt listening to this speech and the issues it brought up.  We then thought about what we ‘have a dream’ about in terms of the world.  We had some really great discussions about this! We have now began to write our own powerful  ‘I have a dream..’ speeches,  thinking about what is really important to us and what we might like to change about the world.

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Wow! The 5th November was a busy day in Year 4!

Any passers by would have heard discussions and debates spilling from the classroom walls. As part of our new class topic, Let’s Celebrate, we were preparing to take part in the School Council’s Bonfire Night party in real style.

In our Design and Technology project children were challenged to work collaboratively to create a Guy for the bonfire. To make the challenge especially difficult, our Guy had to sewed together and had to be wearing traditional Stewart costume! Having planned how they would build their Guy, the class were given some final pieces of advice from Year 5 students who completed the challenge last year. This advice proved vital, as it allowed groups to get off to a flying start with their construction. It took all morning to build each section of our rather fine Guy Fawkes!

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