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Author Archives: Abigail Miller

Scratch mazes in year 4

Wednesday, 9th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 6 have been learning to create and code their own mazes in Scratch. They have been using coding blocks to guide Robin Hood through a forest!

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Computing, Year 4

Diwali workshop with Balbir Singh

Monday, 30th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

A dance company called Balbir Singh worked with Year 3/4 over Zoom to teach the children about Diwali and to teach them a dance to represent the story. We had […]

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RE, Year 3, Year 4

Y4 STEM Shelters

Thursday, 26th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 have been doing lots of learning and research about shelters as part of our Survival/Robin Hood topic. Today we finally made our own models of shelters! The children […]

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Science, Year 4

Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!

Thursday, 5th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 had a fabulous session with Pop’s Outdoor Adventure, learning all about making fires and building shelters as part of our Robin Hood and survival topic. It was a […]

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Educational Visit, Year 4

Year 4’s survival adventure with Pop’s!

Thursday, 5th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 had a fabulous session with Pop’s Outdoor Adventure, learning all about making fires and building shelters as part of our Robin Hood and survival topic. It was a […]

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Zentangle leaves

Friday, 2nd Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 learnt a new art skill yesterday and practised zentangle patterns. We tried some in our sketchpads first and then went onto our leaf pictures. It took a lot […]

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Art, Year 4

Les Couleurs

Thursday, 24th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 have been practising their colours in French. Class 5 and 6 practised by playing some vocab games and then painted a colour wheel to show our learning.

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Languages, Year 4

Scrabble spelling in Class 6

Thursday, 24th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

This week we tried another spelling activity and had a go at scrabble spelling – criss-crossing our spellings through a shared letter. Class 6 did this really well – some […]

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Literacy, Year 4

Super spelling in Class 6

Thursday, 17th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been taking time each day to practise our spellings, looking at the rules and completing activities to practise. We had a go at shape spellings; creating shapes out […]

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Literacy, Year 4

Creating art with nature in year 4

Tuesday, 15th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

As part of our Survivial/Robin Hood topic, we looked at how people have used nature and natural surroundings to create artwork. We then created our own, making weavings using resources […]

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Art, Year 4

Fabulous learning in Year 4

Monday, 14th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We had a great first full week in year 4. Fantastic spelling and handwriting practise, great maths learning, using drama in literacy and good collaboration and ICT skills in History. […]

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A great start to learning from Class 6

Monday, 7th Septemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

I am already very impressed with class 6’s learning and attitude. They have impressed me with their maths and handwriting, and have settled back in very quickly after not being […]

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Y5 moon phases animations

Wednesday, 15th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Year 5 we have been learning about the phases of the moon and created animations to show this. We used paper first and then created an animation using a […]

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Computing, Science, Year 5

Y5 pen and ink astronauts

Monday, 6th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Phenomenal artwork in Mrs Miller’s Year 5 bubble today! It took the children a lot of patience and resilience but the results are outstanding.

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Art, Year 5

Planning for Secondary

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Y6 have used Google maps to plan their route to secondary school.

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Geography, Year 6

Year 5 solar system pastel artwork

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 5 created some stunning pastel artwork based on the solar system.

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Art, Science, Year 5

Year 5 colour wheels

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We learnt about primary, secondary and tertiary colours and practised our colour mixing skills

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Art, Year 5

Y5 problem solving in maths

Thursday, 2nd Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We converted 2 metres into centimetres and millimetres, and then investigate how many straws we would need. We then used that to work out how many we’d need for 4m, […]

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Maths, Year 5

Year 5 colour wheels

Monday, 15th Juneby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 produced some fantastic colour wheels at home to show their understanding of primary, secondary and tertiary colours

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Art, Distance Learning, Year 5

Y5/6 Space Buggies

Wednesday, 6th Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 once again wowed their teachers with their effort and creativity, and created some space buggies! They had to research them, create a plan and then find […]

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Design & Technology, Distance Learning, Our learning, Year 5, Year 6

Year 5M Earth Collages

Friday, 24th Aprilby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

It was back to distance learning on Monday and WOW! Class 7 were certainly ready and raring to go. Look at these outstanding collages they produced at home – the […]

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Art, Distance Learning, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Dragon poems from Y5M

Wednesday, 22nd Aprilby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Just before Easter, Class 7 researched and wrote dragon and Viking poems in a variety of styles, such as haikus and cinquains. Have a look at their research, fabulous writing […]

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Literacy, Year 5

Distance learning in class 7

Monday, 30th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Fabulous distance learning from class 7 this week. Here are some fantastic examples of creative, good quality learning, children working hard and even doing some extra bingo tasks!

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Distance Learning, Our learning, Year 5

Antonym practise

Monday, 16th Marchby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Class 7, we have been learning about antonyms, which are opposites. We have been practising together and then today we have tried some on our own.  We are learning […]

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Literacy, News and Events, Year 5

Vegetative propagation Part 1

Tuesday, 25th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 have been learning about sexual and asexual reproduction in plants, and about vegetative propagation – artificially regrowing plants. Today we set up our own investigation to regrow spring […]

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News and Events, Our learning, Science, Year 5

Internet Safety in Year 5/6

Thursday, 13th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

A fantastic session with Ann Foxley-Johnson about staying safe on the apps we use. We have now created our own posters about using these apps.

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News and Events, Online Safety, PSHCE, Year 5, Year 6

Courage – Mental Health Week

Wednesday, 5th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Y5, we looked at some statements and decided which ones were brave and which ones weren’t. We decided on different ways to categorise them; some of us ranked them […]

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News and Events, Philosophy for Children, PSHCE, Year 5

Dragon pencil artwork in Class 7

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been learning how to use our pencils to create effective artwork, using shade and tone.

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Art, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

Terrific thaumatropes

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

As part of our learning about animation, we made our own examples of thaumatropes to understand how animation was created many years ago. Watch our videos at the end to […]

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Design & Technology, History, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

Creating a PowerPoint quiz in Y5

Tuesday, 4th Februaryby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been researching Dreamworks Animation, linking to our class text of How to Train Your Dragon. We are now creating our own quizzes and learning how to add effects […]

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Computing, History, News and Events, Our learning, Year 5

Festive singing in Year 5/6

Thursday, 19th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 learnt some festive songs (and an Imagine Dragons song!) complete with Makaton actions.

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Christmas, Music, Year 5, Year 6

Improving Spelling in Class 7

Friday, 6th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been trying to learn our tricky year 5/6 words! We are collaborating and challenging each other to learn a few every week and have been doing different activities […]

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Literacy, Year 5

Creating our Remembrance wreath in Class 7

Tuesday, 12th Novemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We worked together to create our wreath, which is now proudly on display in our classroom.

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Art, Philosophy for Children, Year 5

Attendance Breakfast and Golden Table for Class 7

Tuesday, 22nd Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Class 7 were super lucky and won both the Attendance Breakfast AND the Golden Table this week! Superstars!

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Well-being, Year 5

Negative numbers

Friday, 18th Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In SUMMs, Class 7 have been counting through zero into negative numbers. We then practised by playing “tug of war”.

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Maths, Year 5

Dissolving experiment Y5M

Friday, 11th Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We are learning about materials and their properties, and have recently focused on the difference between dissolving and melting – dissolving is when a solid mixes with a liquid to […]

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P4C in Y5M

Friday, 11th Octoberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In class 7 we looked at “Words and our heart”. Our question was – “Should you think before you speak?” We thought of lots of other interesting questions we could […]

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Philosophy for Children, Year 5

The Big Blast

Friday, 12th Julyby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Last week, Y4 children attended Magna and took part in The Big Blast, a Rotherham concert involving other schools and instruments.

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Music, Our learning, Year 4

Investigating sound with string telephones

Thursday, 27th Juneby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We have been learning all about sound in Class 6. Today we investigated how sound travels over a distance using paper cup telephones. We made them in pairs and then […]

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Our learning, Science, Year 3, Year 4

Embracing diversity and challenging stereotypes

Tuesday, 4th Juneby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

This week we are celebrating Diversity and today we have been working alongside Mrs Ann Foxley-Johnson from the Anti-Bullying Conpany!

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Philosophy for Children, Year 3, Year 4

Using Indian Ink

Wednesday, 22nd Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

In Class6, we are using Indian Ink to draw potion bottles with Mrs Robbins. A lot of us haven’t used this media for and it can be tricky but it […]

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Art, Year 3, Year 4

Mental maths in Class 6

Wednesday, 22nd Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We are developing our mental strategies in Class 6, thinking about how we can add and subtract efficiently. We have thought about number bonds and similarities when we add multiples […]

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Maths, Year 3, Year 4

Lucy’s blue day – wellbeing week in class 6

Monday, 13th Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

We discussed what makes us happy, sad and angry and about how we know what others are feeling. After reading Lucy’s Blue Day we talked about how we show emotions […]

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Philosophy for Children, Well-being, Year 3, Year 4

Class 6 and 7 visit Eyam

Monday, 13th Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

On a Wednesday classes 6 and 7 visited Eyam as part of their topic learning about the Plague. Despite walking in the relentless rain and cold weather, it was an […]

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Terrific trumpets

Wednesday, 8th Mayby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 4 have been continuing their trumpet learning in preparation for the Big Blast concert in July! q

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Music, Year 4

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