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At the start of the week Year 2 made medals out of clay. At the end of the week they painted them with metallic paint to make them extra special.  

We watched a clip about the 1992 Olympics where Derek Redmond showed his courage in the 400m despite sustaining a hamstring injury. The children…

Year 3 have been writing Olympic Games shape poems in English this week. We started the week writing a shape poem on canoe slalom. On Tuesday, we explored poems that use comparative adjectives with the er suffix and then learnt the rules for adding this suffix. Using comparative adjectives on…

Year 2 have been looking at some of the Paralympic athletes who will take part in Paris 2024.

We looked at some of the 22 sports which will make up the Paralympics Olympics this year and discovered that some of the Parathletes had tried other Paralympic sports before discovering the ones they…

Today the children had a day focussing on France. We found France on a map and looked at different landmarks in Paris. We made French flags, learnt some French words and built the Eiffel Tower out of different construction. We also designed a team GB sports kit. We had a French breakfast of…

Year 1 have really enjoyed learning all about the Olympics this week. 

We have designed and made our own medal using clay, thought about a sports kit for an athlete to wear and researched different famous athletes, finding out lots of facts.

We enjoyed spending time outside taking part in…

Year 4 have been enjoying Olympics Week! We started the week off by labelling a world map, drawing a line from each host city to it approximate location on the world map. The children enjoyed using atlases' and our class globe! In Art we created Olympics pictograms using newspapers. This morning…

Reception have had a fun week so far learning about the Olympics. We have learnt where the Olympics started, what the Olympic rings represent, we have talked about lots of different sports, watched famous British athletes getting gold medals and we have been very active outside!

Year 3 practised their measuring skills today in an Olympic Sports Circuit. We used stopwatches to measure sprinting times in seconds and to time our 30 second speed bounces. Long jumps and beanbag throws were measured using metre rules and trundle wheels and high jumps were measured using metre…

Year 1 had a super first day of our Olympic week. 

We started off by finding out about the history of the Olympics and where the Olympic games were being held this year. As they are being held in Paris we learnt how to say colours in French and tasted some yummy croissants and baguettes. 

In…