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Smiling, Caring and Learning Together on a Journey with God

Hawthorn Class Blog 2023-24

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  • Plants

    Published 12/07/24, by Harley Griffin
    As our final experiment in our plants topic for Science, we conducted an experiment to see which conditions would make a seed grow the best. We planted 4 of the same seeds at the same time, in the same pots, to make our experiment fair. One seed&n
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  • EAD week

    Published 21/06/24, by Harley Griffin
    For the last two weeks, the class have been working very hard to create some beautiful under-the-sea artwork. They have sculpted and painted a seaside clay ornament that can hang up at home. They also created a mixed media piece of art. They use
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  • A trip to the beach...

    Published 14/06/24, by Harley Griffin
    This week in Hawthorn Class has been very exciting! On Monday, we had a visit from Zoolab. They brought in some different animals for us to meet. We saw a giant snail, a stick insect, a tarantula and a corn snake! Hawthorn Class were very brave an
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  • Blue Reef Writing

    Published 24/05/24, by Clare Burgess
    This week we have been recapping our visit to the Blue Reef Aquarium and discussing what we need to include in our writing. The children have amazed us with their independent learning from the Blue Reef, including their core skills they have lea
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  • Subtracting

    Published 17/05/24, by Clare Burgess
    The children have worked hard this week in maths to be able to subtract using a numberline and some have used dienes. Using dienes means we look at the tens and ones and take the tens away and then the ones. The children understood the concept and wo
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  • Health and well being

    Published 10/05/24, by Clare Burgess
    In RSHE this week we have been learning about our own health and well-being and talking about what this looks like. We discussed keeping our bodies healthy with fruit and vegetables, drinking lots of water, getting lots of sleep and doing exercise.
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  • Maths learning

    Published 03/05/24, by Clare Burgess
    The children have used socks to match and count in 2s! They have also been counting in 5s and 10s and noticing the patterns in these numbers. Ask your child to count in 5s for you. How high can they get? This week in science we have been learning
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  • Woodland Wednesday

    Published 26/04/24, by Clare Burgess
    What a great week we have had! Hawthorn Class loved their time in the woodland on Wednesday. The children explored the area and found lots of minibeasts which they loved showing everyone! The children also got the opportunity to cut wood safely which
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  • World Book Day

    Published 07/03/24, by Harley Griffin
    In Hawthorn Class, we spent World Book Day learning all about the author, Roald Dahl. In the morning, we learnt about Roald Dahl's life and his inspirations for his stories. We wrote our own fact file about him. We spent some time looking at a
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  • Hawthorn's Spring Worship

    Published 07/03/24, by Harley Griffin

    Please enjoy a recording of our recent Spring Worship!

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  • We are writers!

    Published 23/02/24, by Harley Griffin
    This week, we have started our new topic - We are writers. We kicked off this topic with a special visit from an author called Hope Bullen. She read us her new story 'Sunshines and rainbows and all the inbetweens'. We really enjoyed listening
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  • Our dance performance

    Published 23/02/24, by Harley Griffin
    Our recent unit of PE has been dance. We have put together a dance sequence based on our 'out of this world' topic. We have used a range of movements, speed and height to create the sequence. I wonder if you can see where we got our inspirati
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