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Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!

Tuesday, 28th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]

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A Day As A Viking

Thursday, 23rd Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, our Year 5/6 experienced a day in the life of a Viking at Locko Park. We met King Cnut and explored his empire and learnt various different skills, such […]

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Educational Visit, History, Year 5, Year 6

Picture This! 2022

Monday, 20th Juneby missdungworth Leave a comment

Take a look at our outstanding Picture This exhibition at Gullivers Valley in Sheffield. This year, our particular focus was on the theme ‘Movement’. Across our school, we have thought […]

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Dragon Eye Art in Y5/6 – Applying skills to create texture

Wednesday, 11th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, children in Year 5/6 have continued their learning of using different techniques to create pattern and texture and have applied this within their own sketchbooks when drawing a […]

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Dragon Eye Art – Creating Texture

Tuesday, 3rd Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

Very proud of Class 8 today who have demonstrated their outstanding artistic skills by using ink to create texture. We considered the several ways a dragon eye could be interpreted […]

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A Royal Roughwood Tudor Banquet!

Friday, 1st Aprilby missdungworth Leave a comment

Do you have a longing desire to go back in time to experience the wonders of a Tudor banquet? Luckily, the fantastic children in a Class 8 have the opportunity […]

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Y5/6 MyMaths learning

Thursday, 31st Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, Class 8 used their ICT slot to access the Maths platform ‘MyMaths’ in order to apply their prior learning of fractions into some fun challenges! We also introduced decimals […]

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Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 2

Tuesday, 29th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

This morning, we also had the exciting opportunity to try out a ‘Tudor banquet’ and taste foods that were popular of the time. The children experienced foods they liked and […]

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Y5/6 Tudor Day – Part 1

Tuesday, 29th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a tremendous day we have had in Class 7 and 8! We have truly brought the Tudor era ‘to life’ in our hall today, with children fully immersing themselves […]

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Year 5

Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings

Wednesday, 9th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]

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Oracy, Year 5

P4C in Year 5/6 – Recycling

Wednesday, 9th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, children in Y5/6 have focused upon the topic of recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our […]

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Philosophy for Children, Year 5

Y5/6 create digital ‘Word Clouds’ in Literacy

Thursday, 3rd Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

Upon our return to school this week, the children in Class 7 and 8 have been exploring narrative writing in our Literacy sessions. We will be writing our very own […]

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Children’s Mental Health Week – Y5/6 Reach for the Stars!

Thursday, 10th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

As this week is ‘Children’s Mental Health Week’, the children in Y5/6 have been focusing on this years theme of ‘Growing Together’ by considering how they have grown and how […]

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Y5/6 Research about Tudor Life!

Thursday, 27th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Literacy session, Y5/6 have continued researching all about Tudor life and then had the opportunity to share our findings! We have used our questioning and researching skills to […]

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Y5/6 Punctuation ‘Kahoot!’ quiz

Thursday, 20th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Children in Y5/6 have been putting their knowledge of punctuation to the test today during our Kahoot! quiz. During our lesson, we added punctuation (such as commas, full stops and […]

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Using ‘Hot-seating’ to explore thoughts and feelings in Class 8

Thursday, 6th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

During our Literacy session today, we used ‘hot-seating’ as a drama technique to explore thoughts and feelings of characters in our new class book ‘Treason’. At the beginning of the […]

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Away from the desk maths in Y5/6

Friday, 26th Novemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 have been working on building their teamwork and communication skills in today’s Maths session. We have been applying our knowledge and understanding of prime numbers and […]

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Y5/6 STEM MODEL ROCKETS

Friday, 19th Novemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 7 and 8 have had an amazing morning designing and creating our very own model rockets! Our challenge was to design a rocket and module that will keep Mr […]

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Y5/6 use our sketching skills to produce moon crater artwork!

Tuesday, 16th Novemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

This afternoon, Class 8 have used their sketch books to build up a bank of art skills to help them in sketching and shading a moon with craters. We practised […]

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Remembrance Artwork in Y5/6

Tuesday, 9th Novemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

In preparation for Remembrance Day on Thursday 11th November, Y5/6 children have been reflecting on the day that acknowledges the courage and sacrifice of those soldiers who served our country. […]

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Harvest Festival Art in Class 8

Wednesday, 20th Octoberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 8 have worked extremely hard on their magnificent ‘Harvest Wreaths’ artwork. We learnt the importance of celebrating the Harvest Festival as it gives us an opportunity to give to […]

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Thought-provoking P4C in Y5/6

Wednesday, 13th Octoberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Over the last week, the children in Y5/6 have been reflecting upon their experiences during the pandemic. We watched a video as stimulus to provoke our thinking skills and, from […]

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Astronaut Training Day commences in Y5/6!

Friday, 3rd Septemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

Ready… set… BLAST OFF! Our brave ‘astronauts’ in Y5/6 have had a fantastic, fun-filled day during our Astronaut Training Day. There were certain skills and characteristics we needed to become […]

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Y6 Unique Discrimination session via Zoom

Monday, 17th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

This afternoon, Class 8 and 9 had the pleasure of meeting with Mrs Foxley-Johnson via Zoom to learn about the different types of discrimination and the importance of equality. We […]

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Year 6

Using drama to demonstrate different jobs in French

Thursday, 13th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 8 have been developing their French speaking skills as we focus on ‘Les metiers’ (jobs) this half term. This week, we used the dramatical approach ‘freeze-frames’ to demonstrate the […]

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Using discussion language in Class 8

Wednesday, 5th Mayby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our literacy session today, we have engaged in multiple discussions to practise using key words and phrases in preparation for our balanced argument writing next week. We have explored […]

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P4C in Class 8 – ‘The Window’

Tuesday, 20th Aprilby missdungworth Leave a comment

In P4C this afternoon, Class 8 have had a lot of fun stimulating our thinking skills and developing our communication skills! We watched the stimuli ‘The Window’ by Jeannie Baker […]

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Using T4W in Class 8

Monday, 19th Aprilby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, Class 8 have used their sequencing skills to arrange each step of the cycle of the heart. We have then used our ‘Talk 4 Writing’ skills to form actions […]

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Attendance Winner Breakfast

Friday, 26th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a great start to our morning on the last day of term! The children in Class 8 have enjoyed our attendance winner breakfast this morning. A huge well done […]

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“Ecstatic about static electricity” – Science in Y6D

Monday, 8th Marchby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a brilliant first day back! The children in Class 8 have been exploring and observing the effects of static charges and learning about atoms and how they are formed. […]

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Hot-seating as Nicholas Young in Class 8

Monday, 22nd Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

What a brilliant first day back it has been today in Class 8. In our Literacy live session this morning, we have used the drama technique ‘hot-seating’ as an explorative […]

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Class 8’s ‘End of half term Kahoot Quiz’

Friday, 12th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

To celebrate our achievements at the end of this challenging half term of remote learning, Miss Dungworth and Mr Calvert arranged a Kahoot Quiz with Class 8 testing their general […]

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Y6D – Creatively converting Decimals to Fractions!

Friday, 12th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

In Maths, Class 8 have begun to look at how to display decimals as fractions and had a go at converting these on our very own designed ‘Decimals to Fractions’ […]

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Y6D are ‘Internet Safety’ superstars!

Thursday, 4th Februaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

This week, Class 8 were asked to create an internet safety poster including some of the SMART rules we have learnt about in ICT. We have focused on the importance […]

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Class 8 create decimal function machines in Maths

Tuesday, 26th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, Class 8 have been learning about how to divide decimals by 10, 100 and 1000. We used visuals on our live session to demonstrate that when dividing, the numbers […]

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Brilliant biographies in Class 8

Monday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Class 8 have been finding out about the life of explorer Captain James Cook and have conducted research into each of his famous expeditions in order to be able to […]

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Place value chart creations in Class 8!

Tuesday, 19th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Our current Maths unit in Class 8 is decimals. One of the first things to learn about decimals is the place value which is the position of a digit in […]

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Exploring Captain James Cook in Class 8

Tuesday, 12th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

In our Guided Reading session this morning, we had the opportunity to ‘explore the explorer’ Captain James Cook from our book Stowaway. We combined our prior knowledge and new learning […]

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Eager home learners in Y5/6D

Thursday, 7th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Today, in our Maths distance learning live session, Y5/6D have been learning how to label our ‘x’ and ‘y’ axis and plot co-ordinates accordingly. I have been blown away by […]

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Christmas Tinkercad designs in Y5/6D!

Friday, 18th Decemberby missdungworth Leave a comment

During our first week back at school after isolating but our last week of the term, we have been getting into the Christmas spirit by using Tinkercad in ICT to […]

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