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Year 1 Entry Point

This week in Year 1 we've had a very exciting start to our new topic 'Say Cheese!'. We set up our very own catwalk in the hall and the children came to school dressed as their favourite book or film character. We walked down the catwalk doing our best poses whilst our peers used the

Boothferry Bake Off 2015

Boothferry Bake Off 2015 The annual Boothferry Bake off took place over the month month of February. This year, Years 1 and 2 had to design and bake a biscuit, Years 3 and 4, a cup cake and Year 5 and 6 took on bread.  Every child in the school spent time researching their product,

Volcanoes in Year 3

  In year 3 over the last couple of weeks, they have had lots of fun exploring the different parts of volcanoes and understanding why we have natural disasters such as earthquakes in our world. They have been making jigsaws of the world to help understand the tectonic plates and see where these meet, also

Drug Awareness

On Monday 25th January, PC Day from Humberside Police force spent the morning with Year 5 and Year 6 as part of our health studies. He spent time explaining that Drugs fall into 3 categories. Those that stimulate, those that depress and those that cause hallucinations. All drugs are chemicals and change the way our

Exploring Power

This week in Year 1 the children were invited to bring in a battery operated toy from home. We explored how a battery works and looked at the use of a switch on a toy. We also looked at how  batteries power the toys to do different things. The children then drew a picture of

Chocolate Day

For the entrance of the new Year 4 topic we invited chocolate by design to come and share their expert information with us. They told us all about where chocolate came from, how it is made, how to find the healthiest chocolate and most excitedly we tempered chocolate. They created a Chocolate Pizza Bake Off,

Aliens love… Socks!

This week in Year 1 we have been reading "Aliens love underpants save the world". We retold the story in our own words, thinking carefully about the structure of our writing. On Wednesday, the Aliens visited us, leaving behind a trail of socks! We followed the trail to the school field where we found a

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