Pride of Plover

11th February 2022Mrs Lewis

Congratulations to this week’s Pride of Plover winner, Laci-Maee! It was lovely to see how proud you were when you found out.
Your enthusiasm for learning this week has been amazing to see. You have worked so hard and been a pleasure to have in class. I’m sure you will keep it up after half term. Well done Laci-Maee, we’re all so proud of you!

Mrs Lewis

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We are songwriters in LKS2

11th February 2022Mrs Graves

Today we took a step closer to producing our final product when we had an expert visitor, Geoff Hewitt from the XP Trust, come into school to run song writing workshops with Years 3 and 4.

Geoff has had a busy week going into the other 3 XP primary schools to write the earlier verses to the song, but today it was our turn to write a beautiful and memorable ending to our song.

I was blown away by the contributions the children made and our final verses are really something to be proud of.

We enjoyed coming together as a phase at the end of the morning and sharing our verses and singing them together.

I am feeling so excited about what the final song will sound like when we record it at XP School.

Mrs Graves

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3G – Let’s have a heated debate!

10th February 2022Mrs Graves

Today in English, we were debating whether we should have cars or not.

We looked at how to structure a debate and the type of language we should use.

We used our listening skills to build on what others were saying.

I wonder which side you would choose?

Mrs Graves and Miss Smith

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Super Scientists and Marvellous Magnets in 3G

10th February 2022Mrs Graves

We continued being scientists today by having a Physics investigation in magnets. We learnt words such as ‘repel’ and ‘attract’ and we now know that magnets have two Poles – the North and the South Pole – now where have we heard of those before I wonder?

Mrs Graves

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Attract or Repel?

9th February 2022Mrs Shuka

3LS have been diving deeper into our expedition today, exploring magnets and properties of magnetic materials. We’ve been predicting and testing which objects will be attracted and repelled by magnets. Did you know that not all metals are attracted to magnets? We found a 1p from 1971 that was not attracted to a magnet and a 1p from 1998 that was. Even more amazingly, we have discovered that magnets can attract objects from a distance and even through other objects! The force can attract a penny through two other coins.

Mrs Shuka

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What time is it?

8th February 2022Mrs Shuka

This week we have been learning about time. Today we made our own clocks with moving hour and minute hands. We’re going to bring them home with some home learning and parent guides. It would be great if we could practice telling the time at home too!

Next up we will be adding Roman numerals to our clock faces. Do you know what X or V are in Roman numerals?

Mrs Shuka

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We are Scientists

8th February 2022Mrs Shuka

Today we have had a lot of fun exploring forces and magnets. We’ve learnt how magnets have a North and South Pole and which ends attract and repel. We were fascinated to discover that magnets don’t need to touch to attract. They work through all kinds of materials, even Kiara’s hair!

Today we have made predictions about which objects are magnetic and not and cant wait to test out our theories tomorrow. Watch this space for our results!

We also discovered an interesting fact about magnets and coins. Newer coins are all magnetic but some older ones are not. Do you know why?

Mrs Shuka

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More Great Home Learning

8th February 2022Mrs Graves

I absolutely love it when my class bring in work they have completed at home. They have such creativity and imagination!

Well done Eden, Ella, Shayen, Vittoria and Lola and keep it up!

Mrs Graves

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