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Hello everyone welcome to Dragon Class 2023-2024!

There are 11 children in the class who are supported by:

Nicola Hodgson- Teacher

Kelly - HLTA

Shelby - TA

Jess - TA

Helen - TA.

Important information:

Swimming- Mill House Tuesday

PE- Thursday

Soft Play- Friday

Dragon Class Topic Web Summer 2024

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Dragon Class Timetable Autumn 2023

timetable 2023 - 2024.docx

We had so much fun on sports day and the weather was glorious! More photos from sports day are on our school Facebook page. Happy summer holidays everyone!

We had so much fun at Larry's Lanes for our leavers trip. We enjoyed a game of bowling then had some delicious food and ice cream! We wish all of our leavers good luck for the future!

We had so much fun celebrating space day! We made rockets, space pictures and enjoyed a number of different experiments in the hall!

As a treat for the end of term, the children go to go on different bouncy castles. There was a huge one, a disco tent and a smaller one with a ball pit. They all had so much fun!

We have been reading Arlo The Lion Who Couldn't Sleep in our English lessons. We used the pictures from the story to write expanded nouns phrases. Well done everyone!

Dragon Class had a lovely day at the forest! Due to the rain we couldn't go climbing so we spent the day exploring the woods! We had a fabulous day and learnt lots about the plants and wildlife in the forests.

We had so much fun canoeing at Cod Beck!! Some of us were brave enough to jump in the water!!

Our new story in literacy is Arlo the sleepy lion.

🌙 Arlo. The lion who couldn't sleep by Catherine Rayner. Book Reading 🌙

Bedtime Stories. Book Reading. ‎@bedtimestories111 https://www.youtube.com/@bedtimestories111

In art Dragon Class have been looking at sculpture. We were lucky enough to have Dawn from Sea View Pottery come in and make vases with us. We folded, attached and bent the clay to make our 3rd vase sculpture.

Our story in English this week is I can only draw worms. We have been enjoying the story and created our own versions of it.

Will Mabbitt reads I Can Only Draw Worms

Will Mabbitt can only draw worms! Sit alongside Will has he reads from his latest picture book I Can Only Draw Worms. Will is the author of the Mabel Jones series, and brings his distictive style to this hilarious new picture book I Can Only Draw Worms Out January.

We enjoyed an Easter egg hunt with the Easter Bunny. We received a delicious treat for finding all the eggs.

Comic Relief Day 2024

We had a lovely morning with Kim from Northern Ballet. We performed to music based on the the story The Tortoise and The Hare.

World Book Day!!

This week we have been reading The Tiny Seed by Eric Carle. We have been sequencing the story and we wrote some lovely sentences with adjectives! Well done everyone!

NSPCC Number Day!! We had fun in maths!! We went on a treasure hunt and played snakes and ladders for number day.

We have enjoyed listening to the story 'Season come, Season go Tree' in literacy. We have written some fantastic sentences of our own in our literacy lessons.

Tree (Seasons Come, Seasons Go) - Story

Here is Rob reading us a story about a tree that goes through the four seasons. Maybe you could draw a tree for each of the four seasons? We would love to see what you come up with!

We have been working hard in textiles! We have learnt how to plait, thread, weave and sew.

We had a special visitor today! We are all on the good list!!!! Merry Christmas everyone!

We had a fabulous last day! We loved watching the pantomime Treasure Island! Oh no we didnt!

The Christmas Pine by Julia Donaldson (animation)

Every year The Poetry Society commissions a poem, welcoming Norway's gift of a Christmas tree to London's Trafalgar Square as part of its Look North More Often project. This year's poem, 'The Christmas Pine', is by Julia Donaldson, author of The Gruffalo and a former children's laureate.

Fun at our Christmas party. We enjoyed dancing, playing games and eating lots of party food!!

'I'm the happiest Christmas tree' - We loved performing in our Christmas play!!

I'm The Happiest Christmas Tree _ Simple Steps for Kids

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We had a fantastic time ice skating at Billingham Forum!!

Our 1st Christmas jumper day!! We enjoyed playing games and buying gifts at our Christmas fair

We have been busy making chocolate Christmas tree lollipops for our Christmas fair

We had a special visit from Pudsey Bear to say thank you for raising money for Children in Need!!

History- Old and New Toys. In our History lessons we have been learning about old and new toys and the differences between them. We learnt that old toys were made out of metal and wood and they were made by hand. We learnt that new toys are usually made of plastic and by machines. We can also name some old toys.

History- As part of our History work we visited Preston Park Museum to explore the old toys.

Children in Need 2023

After listening to the text 'At the beach postcards from Crabby Spit', we wrote our own postcard all about a holiday or adventure we have been on.

At the beach : Postcards from Crabby Spit

This week in literacy we have been looking at this text. We have completed some fantastic work based on the text. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!!

Stories we have been focusing on this half term.

Jake's First Day.

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The Great Paper Caper Read Aloud

Lost in the Toy Museum by David Lucas

Meg and Mog - Give Us A Story!

Classic witchy storybook for kids! What will Meg and her loyal cat Mog get up to in the middle of the night?? Read with love and silly voices! Happy Halloween!!!