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Today, we went on a trip to Greece, Pakistan, China, Wales and India! 

We spoke with people from all of these countries. We learnt how they say hello, what languages they speak, all about their currency, food and famous landmarks. We flew from country to country learning lots of…

As part of the queens celebration day we had a maypole dancing. Here are some pictures of the children dancing around the may pole.

This morning a police officer and two PCSOs visited us to tell us about their jobs. We were able to ask lots of questions and explore the police car! 

Police are there to look after us and help keep us all safe.

When we are older some of Year 1 want to be…

We had a visit from Manchester fire and rescue service. They told us about their jobs and we got to ask them questions about what they have to wear when tackling a fire and what the fire engine is like. They brought a fire engine to show us but unfortunately they had to go very…

As part of our celebration for the Queen's birthday and everything British, we were lucky enough to learn about May Pole dancing and even have a go with the help of Mr Foster. See our great pictures! We had great fun! 

This was shortly followed by a cake sale, of the…

We had an absolutely amazing time celebrating The Queen's 90th birthday! We looked at how British values are present in our classroom and designed bunting and flags with the union jack on them! Mr Winstanley held the May Pole while we did some traditional British dancing around it which was…

In literacy we enjoyed reading The Pig's Knickers by Jonathan Emmet. This book is full of adventurous verbs to describe how the pig moved around the farm with the confidence of his great new knickers. To help us understand these verbs so we could use them in our own writing, we freeze framed some…

In science our class were given the challenge of trying to find a good material that a robot called BP could make a waterproof coat from. We tested felt, cotton, tissue paper and plastic. In the end we decided plastic was the best material because it is light and waterproof. Now BP won't rust…

We have been researching the life of Queen Victoria II this half term in our topic work. Also we found out all about her Coronation and what it would have been like to be there. As a class, we then re-enacted our own version of the Coronation! 

On Friday we held our class auditions for Britain's Got Talent! We had some stunning performances and everyone that participated was very brave and did amazingly well! We even had a surprise guest appearance from the famous judges: Simon Cowell, David Walliams and Amanda Holden! 

On Friday last week, we went to Crumpsall park for the afternoon as our reward for good behaviour this term! We played football, games and had lots of fun on the slides and swings. We all had a fabulous time! We wonder what our next treat will be...

We have been having lots of fun in maths this week carrying out lots of problem solving activities related to weight. 

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