Dahl Class
Miss Fox

RE Week - How should we care for others and the world and why does it matter?

This week we have been learning all about how the world was created by God. We discussed whether we thought we were 'spoiling God's creation' and different ways we could help our environment. The children created a Sea Turtle with our used bottle lids, wrote their own Acrostic Poems all about saving the environment and planted flowers in Dahl's garden to look after our own school environment.

​Additionally, we discussed ways we care for each other and used drama to act out different ways that we treat people. We thought about our Golden Rule 'treating other people as you would like them to treat you' and researched the work of Dr Barnardo. 

Wild Week

The Great Local Outdoors

This week we have been having lots of fun exploring and learning all about our local environment. Have a look below to see what Dahl have been getting up to.

Thornbridge Outdoors

Thornbridge Gardens

French
In French we have been learning a selection of food and drinks. Dahl have been ordering their items and even remembered their pleases and  thank you’s! 

PSHE

In PSHE, we have been discussing how we feel when we are unwell and how we can make ourselves feel better. Have a look below to see Dahl’s Get Well Soon cards!

Clay Modelling

To finish off our Transport topic, we used clay to make models of our favourite transports. Have a look at the photos below to see Dahl getting their hands messy!

Our Chairs Went On Strike!

We came into the classroom today and our chairs had gone on strike! In order to get our chairs back, we had a go at writing a letter of persuasion! Here's how Dahl got on without their chairs... 

RE Week 

This week we have been focusing on our main question - What can we learn from sacred books?
Within Christianity, we have looked at what we can learn from  stories in the Bible. To help us understand, we acted out the story The Good Samaritan and made a storyboard of The Easter Story.
We also learnt about how other religions treat their sacred books. We looked at the Qur'an and the Torah Scroll and decided to created our own Jewish Torah Scrolls. 

English

Here is a clip of Dahl learning their model text for this term - Kidnapped!

Maths

This week in Maths, we have been making shapes out of spaghetti and counting their edges and vertices.

We are back!

I am so excited to have you back in the classroom so we can finish the Spring term in person and not over a screen! 
Check back regularly to see what we get up to in class.

Home Learning

Please click the button below to see this week's home learning timetable.
Please use Seesaw to find all of your child's home learning tasks.

Spring Term 2

This half term's topic is 'Transport through the Ages'.
We are going to be learning all about the history of the railway and the significance of Stephenson's rocket. 

​Seesaw is the place to be for all learning activities and we're still using Google Meet to virtually connect us as a class. 

Spring Term 1

RE Week

This week has been RE week and we have been focusing on one big question:
’What makes some places sacred?’

This week we have been looking at different religious sacred places, our own special places and what different religions do that is sacred to them.
Have a look at what some pupils have been doing at home and in school. 

Learning from home

Here is some lovely work from pupils at home.

Egyptian Crafts

This week, with our key worker children, we have been doing a few Egyptian crafts!
​We have made our own Papyrus Paper and painted an Egyptian symbol onto them. We also mummified an apple - I hope you enjoyed following along at home!

Happy New Year Dahl!

Welcome back Dahl Class!

We hope you had a lovely Christmas and New Year. 
This half term our topic is Ancient Egypt. We are going to be finding out where Egypt is and the importance of the River Nile.
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Autumn Term 2
This half term our topic is 'Out of this World!'

We will be using our imaginations and create aliens which we will write instructions for. We will also learn about real life astronauts like Tim Peake and Mae Jemison. We will be using computers to help us design rockets. We will test and evaluate them and collect data about how far they travel. In maths, we are moving on to addition and subtraction.
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Planning - What we are learning about this half term.
Welcome to Dahl Class' webpage.  Please check back regularly for updates on what we have been up to in class. 
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Click the image below to find out all about routines and expectations in Dahl Class:
Home Learning Help
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​PE
PE this term will be on Tuesday and Wednesday. Please come in your kit on these days. ​
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​We are reading:
Christmas Play

Everyone has now been given their parts and lines for our Christmas play - Children of the World. 
The songs and words for the play are now also available on Seesaw, so you can practise these at home too!

​The easiest way to find these, is to click on the folder icon next to your name:

Next,  choose the 'Christmas Play' folder


Then, you will see the song words and a play button. Press play to hear the song and enjoy practising at home!
Children in Need 2020
We had so much fun in our pyjamas for the day.
​We held a little competition in class to colour in Pudsey.
The winner was Charlie! His prize was to have his drawing turned into a fantastic 3D version of HIS Pudsey dancing here for you to see!
Mystery Crime Scene ​- Wednesday 11th November
Something VERY mysterious crash landed in our field the other day. Mr Unwin was able to tape off the area in case it was dangerous but he asked us to investigate.

We had to write a report by listing all the evidence that we could see. There were many different theories as to what it was and what could have happened. 

What do you think it is?

We found:
  • yellow dust
  • black marks on the ground
  • scratches in the trees
  • strangely shaped yellow footprints
Our new topic is Space
Getting excited by our new topic this half term! We couldn't wait to get stuck into all the books Miss B found in the library. 
Remembrance
This year, we painted poppies onto pebbles to place on the memorial just outside school. We went in our class bubble to say a prayer and to remember those who lost their lives in the war. 
Bonfire Night
We started off the half term learning all about Bonfire Night. We made safety posters, collages and poems!
Harvest RE Week
We learnt how Christians celebrate Harvest this week. We found out that it is a time to be grateful and say thank you. These are the things we are thankful for:
DT - Designing Bread
We finished off our farming topic with a DT project. After learning about 'the journey of bread' from growing wheat in the fields, to baking a lovely loaf, we evaluated some existing designs of bread. We looked closely and different shapes of bread rolls and chose described why we liked them. 
Next, we designed some shapes to try out. We then practised making those shapes with playdough, before drawing our final design.
The next day, was the fun part, making the bread! We worked in teams of four to read the recipe, weigh and measure the ingredients and knead, knead, knead until our bread was ready to shape. I'm sure you'll agree, our bread rolls turned out fantastically!
Jack and the Beanstalk 
Hot write
Now we can't wait to write our own brand new story. We have created our plans, drawn our story maps and practised 'reading' our new story to the class. All we need to do now is become authors and write!
Jack and the Beanstalk
Innovation
We have had great fun changing parts of the Jack and the Beanstalk story. Learning the original story has given us the confidence to write lots and lots! We have also worked hard on using the best words to describe, created an adjective beanstalk and collected some brilliant words from the story for our 'Magpie Words'.
Jack and the Beanstalk
Imitation
Our first Talk for Writing unit of the year has begun and we are so excited! A beanstalk grew in our classroom over the weekend! 
We did wonder if it was one of the sunflowers we have been growing - but we soon started to think about what could be at the top!
Ask us to re-tell the story! We use our story map and actions to help us remember - and our best booming giant voice of course! "FEE FI FO FUM!"
This week, we have also been practising describing. We have learnt about using exciting verbs and interesting adjectives to paint a picture with words.
Week Three- Here We Are
​Wildlife
"There are animals, too. They come in even more shapes, sizes and colours. They can't speak, though that's no reason not to be nice to them."
We LOVE animals in Dahl Class, and felt it was important to spread this message about animals that are in danger from becoming extinct like the dodo in the illustration. 
We wrote posters all about endangered animals using information we read from the WWF website. 
Week Two - Here We Are
​Our Community
"People come in many shapes, sizes and colours.
​We may all look different, act different and sound different....
....but don't be fooled, we are still people."
We enjoyed talking about the school community that we belong to at representing our class community on a display board in our cloakroom.
Week Two - Here We Are
​Our body

"On our planet, there are people.
One people is a person.
You are a person. You have a body.
Look after it, as most bits don't grow back."
We drew our own half in, half out bodies and used our phonics to label all the bits we knew about!
Week One - Here We Are
Our Planet
We always love exploring Google Earth in Dahl Class. We started by thinking about where we live - here on Earth, zooming closer to observe our countryside (aren't we lucky!) and even further to see where our classroom is in school. 
"There is much to see and do here on Earth, so let's get started with a quick tour."
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