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Welcome to Amazon Class!

We love learning and growing together and would like to share that with you here on our blog.

We hope you enjoy our class blog.

With happy smiles from Amazon Class :)

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  • Our First Week in Amazon Class

    Published 26/09/23

    Amazon Class have had a super first week back to school, making new friends and getting to know their new class. We have learnt lots about the Amazon river and the pink river dolphin who inhabits these vast waters. We each made a pink river dolphin to place in our Amazon Class river to remind us that we are all swimming together.

    We have played lots of games to get to know each other, including the wool game, making a web which symbolises how we are all connected by the things we have in common. We have lots of cats and dogs in our homes!

    We have shared some super stories and written some wonderfully imaginative ‘unbelievable’ stories about the summer- why not ask your child all about their unbelievable story?

    We have started to explore our new topic ’The Great Fire of London’, learning lots about what London was like in 1666. Our Tudor houses are proudly displayed, making sure they are very close together! We visited our school timeline and found this significant event in history, calculating that the blaze started 357 years ago.

    We have been revisiting key maths skills this week, using sand trays and sensory bags to practise number formation and calculation.

    Finally, we’ve made time to relax, rehydrate and play in our new surroundings. I am so proud of how the children have settled in and embraced returning to school. What a super week we’ve had!

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  • Our memories of a special year

    Published 21/07/23

    As we reach the end of a very special year, the children have reflected on their favourite memories of this year. There was such a variety of wonderful memories and so many lovely things to share. The children recorded their memories on summery sunflowers to remember and keep.

    Wishing you the most wonderful summer. 

    Have fun, stay safe and be superstars! 

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  • Sunflowers

    Published 21/07/23

    The children explored the life and artwork of Vincent Van Gogh, with a particular focus on his piece 'Sunflowers'. Using watercolours, we then recreated our own interpretations of this summery painting. 

    We hope you enjoy our gallery.

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  • The Barnabus Project

    Published 21/07/23

    Amazon Class have loved exploring The Barnabus Project this term. This wonderful book tells the story of Barnabus and his friends who line the shelves of the failed project lab underneath the Perfect Pets store. These creatures are not "perfect" enough to be out in the wide world and therefore live in their little bell jars. Until one day, brave Barnabus and his friends escape into the wonderful world.

    This story has sparked lots of dicussion about all being individual but yet all being perfect just the way we are. The children then designed their own failed projects which were a combination of two animals. They wrote their files and diary entries as their new animals. This week, the children have enjoyed finishing our unit by sculpting their failed projects and homing them inside their own little bell jars.

    We hope you have enjoyed welcoming your new little pet into your homes.

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  • Reading Bears' Picnic

    Published 19/07/23

    Reading Bears 🐻

    Today, Amazon Class were given their new reading bear friends to take home and read with for the summer holidays and beyond. After meeting our new bears, we took them outside for a teddy bear's picnic on the field, together with a bear story.

    It was so special to see the children so excited about their reading bears and I hope they enjoy reading to their bears during the summer break, remembering just how much we have loved reading in Amazon Class this year.

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  • Art Installation

    Published 27/06/23

    Our art installation is now proudly displayed in our main school corridors. 

    We have been exploring the work of sculptor, Michelle Reader, who creates sculptures using recycled materials to raise awareness of the importance of rescue, reuse, recycle.

    We then used plastic bags and other plastic waste to create these stunning jellyfish, based on the story of Somebody Swallowed Stanley. 

    We are so proud of our little art installation and hope you enjoy it too.

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