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We’ve had another fantastic week full of learning, exploring and having fun in Otters 🦦 ➗ Maths: We’ve been busy recapping our times tables, exploring arrays and developing our understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. 📚 English: We’ve been exploring how to create suspense in our writing. We looked at different techniques, including cliffhangers, short sentences, repetition and using sounds to build tension and keep our readers on the edge of their seats! 🥗 Science: We investigated the nutritional value of different foods and learnt about the importance of eating a healthy, balanced diet. 🎸 Music: We travelled back in time to discover the history of rock and roll! We learnt the hand jive and had great fun performing it to various adults around the school. 🌍 Geography: We explored lines of longitude and latitude and used atlases to discover more about the fascinating continent of Antarctica and its geographical features. 🇫🇷 French: We’ve been learning our colours and building our French vocabulary. 💛 Children in Need: Today, we showed our support for Children in Need by dressing up and learning more about the charity, its purpose and the amazing work it does to help children and young people. 🎉 In celebration assembly we congratulated respectful, integral and independent learners!

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Turtles enjoyed celebrating Children in Need and all looked amazing with their Pudsey tops and other outfits! (and ears!)

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This week in Turtles, we have been practicing our ball skills in PE dribbling with our feet, rolling with hands and throwing and catching. In English we learnt about verbs and had great fun acting different verbs out!

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Ducklings have had another fantastic week! It started when we became worm detectives, investigating how worms move and working out which end of them was the head. Then we remembered some of the people who help to keep us safe in the world. Then we ended the week exploring number 5 and learning how to use a 5 die frame.

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Year 2 have had fun celebrating Children in Need day with our friends.

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🦊 This week in Foxes Class! 🦊 It's been another busy week in Year 6! We've been developing our evasion skills in basketball, continuing our work on fractions by multiplying and dividing fractions by integers, and listening to oral histories about the Battle of Britain. We've also continued our learning about our fascinating solar system! Next week, we're looking forward to a morning at Crucial Crew! We will also be starting our setting description writing, where we will be creating our own imaginative rooms inspired by our class novel, The Nowhere Emporium. Miss Hayward is really excited to read all of your amazing descriptions and see where your imaginations take you! Well done, Foxes, for another fantastic week. Keep up the hard work, Year 6!

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🐝 Bumblebees enjoyed dressing in non uniform, spots and Pudsey headbands today for Children in Need! We talked about how charities can help children and how people raise money in different ways to help others. We worked on our scissor skills as we made amazing Pudsey headbands! In the role play area, some children prepared a picnic for Pudsey too!

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🐝Bumblebees learnt about Diwali- the Hindu Festival of light and found out how families celebrate Diwali. We described the beautiful rangoli patterns and made our own using powder, rice, sand and lentils. We learnt how to make a small clay pot called a diva. The children created large scale rangoli and mehndi patterns outside. We created our own dances and played instruments along to the music. 🎶 🎇 🪔

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🐨Another busy week of learning in Koalas, in maths we have started our fractions learning where we’ve been exploring equivalent fractions and in English we have continued our WW2 evacuation recount skills. During PSHE, we have been learning about first aid, this week we learnt how to treat bites and stings, we got to play a fun game of charades. An exciting start to our computing unit where we’ve been learning to use databases on PurpleMash. 🐨

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WE ARE BECOMING A PARKRUN SCHOOL For this we need as many of our pupils to join us at a local Junior Parkrun. Please join us at Beccles Common, Common Ln, Beccles NR34 9BY on Sunday 22nd November at 8.45. Any questions please see Mrs Woodrow

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Excellent half term homework from Emily, Eddie and Harry from Dolphin class. The cakes were much appreciated.

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Some wonderful poppy artwork from the Dolphin class this afternoon.

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Year 2 have learnt the scientific word metamorphosis today and have recreated lifecycles of offspring that look different from their adults. 😊🦋

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Well done to Bobby and Penelope for achieving your 30 reads certificate.

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A huge congratulations to our cross-country team today! We attended an event at Worlingham and Pakefield came an amazing 4th out of 10 schools with 3 individuals winning gold medals. We were so proud of all the pupils, every single pupil finished their race and their support for each other was great to see! Well done Pakefield!

Facebook / 11 Nov

Thank you to our Year 6 children for leading the Remembrance assembly this morning. A great tribute to those we lost during the war.

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Cross Country Event- Thursday 12th November. If you child is taking part in the cross country event at Worlingham tomorrow please make sure they bring: -Warm layers including a coat for when they are not running. -Plenty to drink and a packed lunch (unless you have ordered one with the school kitchen) -Spare shoes and a bag to put their muddy trainers in. Children may come to school wearing PE kit if they are attending the event. Thank you, Mrs Woodrow

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This afternoon some of Y4 pupils took part in a Basketball Festival at EPA. They were amazing showing so much enthusiasm and learnt lots of new skills. Well done Pakefield!

Facebook / 9 Nov

SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Evelyn displayed an excellent performance with her team, the Corton Leopards, on Saturday. She scored a goal and earned herself the Managers Player of the game.

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⭐ Book Reviews ⭐: If any of your children have read a good book recently, then why not create a book review to put in our school library? Draw a picture of the front cover and a short review about it, with a star recommendation. Hand in at the school office, or pop it along to the Pandas classroom. 📖

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SPORTING ACHIEVEMENT Well done to: Jaxon who won player of the match yesterday at his football game. He not only worked hard in defence, but managed to score 2 goals!

Facebook / 6 Nov

Otters class have had a great start to the new half term. We have been looking at our new book, Jumanji add learning how to create suspense in our writing. We started our new PE unit, netball and enjoyed building on our knowledge of logo and writing commands for turtles in computing!

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This week Ducklings have been working collaboratively making artwork inspired by the sights and sounds on Bonfire night. They explored different ways to make marks one the paper and explored different media.

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In year 2 we have been working hard learning past and present tense verbs. We created our own actions, did a trail and found our word partners. Well done butterflies! 😊🦋

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Foxes Class have jumped straight back into their learning this week! We've started exciting new topics in both Science and History, becoming astronauts and historians as we explore space and investigate the events of World War II. In PE, we've kicked off our new basketball unit, developing our teamwork and skills on the court. Meanwhile, in English, we're stepping into the imaginative world of The Nowhere Emporium, learning how to write vivid and engaging setting descriptions. What a fantastic start to the term!

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What a start for the new term in hedgehogs! Had a week of mystery and suspense as we read our new text Jumanji. Bring on next week!

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🐝Bumblebees have been learning all about Bonfire Night this week! They watched the firework clips and used descriptive language to talk about what they could see and hear. The children created firework art indoors and outdoors, responded to music and used chalk, paint, pens and foam to develop their fine motor skills. They talked about their own experiences of watching fireworks with their families. The children worked on their scissor skills as they made rockets and loved flying them outside! 🎆🎇🔥🎆🎇

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🐨Koalas have had a busy first week of autumn term 2. In writing we’ve started our new class text ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’ which is based on the world war. We have been thinking about what life would have been like as an evacuee and looked at the items they might have had in their suitcase - we even got to look at a gas mask from the war. In maths we have been multiplying and dividing by 10,100 and 1,000. In French we started our new space exploration unit which links well with our science where we’ve started our Earth and Space topic. We created a solar system to show the order of planets and their distance from the sun. 🐨

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This afternoon, some of our Year 5 pupils took part in a pickleball event at Pakefield High School. The pupils all worked really hard and had a fun afternoon playing matches against a number of different schools. Well done for a great afternoon Pakefield Primary!