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We have we learning about the importance of the dragon in the Lunar New Year. We have created a huge dragon head ready for our dragon dances this week! 

We had a fantastic time at Tamworth Castle. We learnt about armour, weapons, artefacts and also tried our hands at archaeology. The instructors (and our teachers!) were so impressed with our fantastic behaviour and enthusiasm on the trip.

We used mud to explore painting Chinese symbols in our forest school session. 

This week in maths, we have been measuring in millimetres, centimetres and metres. We have also been converting between the different measures. Today, we measured the height of our friends and calculated how tall they were in cm and m.

For Parents - Lemon8 App

Lemon8 is an app which seems to be growing in popularity. Calling itself a 'lifestyle community' app the terms and conditions, as per most social media, is 13+. The company which owns Lemon8 is ByteDance, who also own TikTok and it's essentially a mix between Instagram…

We used sounds to build civic words on a Chinese New Year Dragon! There was some super sounding and segmenting to spell!

Class one have been weaving and decorating baskets for Handa to carry her fruit in. We looked at traditional African bowls and recreated the patterns using pen. We also weaved paper and created fruit using pastels. 

We’re decoding Viking runes to help us tell a story. 

We’re having fun being Vikings

We are awake and packed. Ready for breakfast…. 

We have had dinner and are now having loads of fun making Viking Shields.

We’re having so much fun being archaeologists.