Author: Sarada Vicknathasan

05 Mar

We celebrated our love of books today, by coming into school dressed as our favourite book characters. We read some of our favourite stories, and wrote about our much loved characters. In the afternoon, our friends from year 2 came into our classroom and shared...

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04 Mar

Yesterday afternoon our last duckling arrived. We named our 5 ducklings Elsa, Daisy, Fluffy, Cheep and Ducky.We watched our ducklings as they rested under the brooder. They were still very sleepy! We then watched them as they took their first steps and had their first...

12:48 / News Archive / Reception
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03 Mar

[gallery ids="20177,20178,20175,20176,20181,20183,20184,20215"] We welcomed spring today, as we made daffodils out of paper plates and egg cartons. We painted them different shades of yellow and orange, and used a green paper straw for the stem. We also painted symmetrical butterflies on the computer and with paints....

15:36 / News Archive / Reception
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03 Mar

A lovely surprise awaited Chestnut Class this morning, as we came in to school and found that our very first duckling had hatched. We were then very lucky, as 3 more eggs hatched before lunchtime, so we were all able to witness the miracle of...

12:37 / News Archive / Reception
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02 Mar

[gallery ids="20246,20247,20248,20249,20250,20251,20252,20253,20254,20255,20256,20257,20258"] Farmer Ted delivered our duck eggs to us from the farm today. He showed us the incubator and the brooder, and told us all about how to care for our ducklings when they hatch. We can already see cracks on 4 of our eggs!...

13:04 / News Archive / Reception
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28 Feb

Chestnut Class were amazing in their second class assembly today. Our assembly was all about Lent, and how we will try to be more like Jesus during this time. We started our assembly by telling our audience some facts about Shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and...

12:48 / News Archive / Reception
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27 Feb

[gallery ids="20864,20865,20866,20867,20868,20869,20870"] We have been doing lots of measuring this week. We measured the lengths of wriggly worms in the sand with our rulers, and have even started to learn about capacity when making potions in the water tray....

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26 Feb

Father Sean came in to Chestnut Class today, to give us a blessing for Ash Wednesday. He made the sign of the cross on our foreheads with ash, and spoke to us about the beginning of Lent. We also made a promise tree by writing...

12:46 / News Archive / Reception
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