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Tweet, Tweet!

Tweet, Tweet!

Our classroom is connected! In Yarrow class, we’ve recently set up our own class Twitter account so that we can share, connect and collaborate with the world around us. We will use our classroom Twitter account (@Yarrow_Class) to share snippets of our work, learning and life in…

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Wondrous World Museum

Wondrous World Museum

It’s been a very busy week in Yarrow class! After we wrapped the filming for our space themed movie, we took a trip to the World Museum in Liverpool.

The museum has 5 floors of exciting exhibits (and lots of stairs!). We started off on the space floor and looked at…

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Lights…Camera…Action!

Lights…Camera…Action!

This week, Yarrow class were transformed into a hive of budding film makers. We worked with a local film company to produce our film for the IntoFilm competition, where our film could be shown on the International Space Station!

We began by creating a storyboard of our…

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Location, Location, Location!

Next week, we will be working with a local film company to produce our entry for the Into Film: Space competition. The winning entries will be sent up to the International Space Station to entertain Tim Peakes!

This week, it was all about finding a…

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So You Think You Can Dance?

Over the last few weeks, Yarrow class have been working with Lorraine from the Chorley Sports Partnership to develop our dancing skills.

The children have been working hard to learn and develop a routine of their own to the song “Shut Up and Dance With…

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Something Strange In The Skies?

This week in Yarrow class, we’ve heard some strange reports about mysterious, bright lights in the skies over Chorley! Apparently, the first sightings were over Rivington at around 11pm. The strange craft had blue lights and darted around the skies over…

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Volcanic Bake Off!

It seems that we have a few Great British Bake-Off fans in class after we have had a sudden influx of volcano inspired cakes!

As part of their topic homework, Yarrow class were challenged to recreate a volcano. Izzy and Niamh went one step further and produced…

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Volcanologists at Work!

This week we have been continuing with our Angry Earth topic. So far, we have discovered what a volcano is and where to find them. We’ve also looked at whether or not we’d like to live near a volcano and believe it or not…some of us actually said yes!

This…

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Clever Concoctions!

Clever Concoctions!

As we mentioned a few weeks ago, we have been designing our own super smoothies. We looked at different fruits and vegetables and thought about which we thought would work well together. Then, we predicted what our smoothie would look like.

This week, we got to the bit we…

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Super Smoothies!

Super Smoothies!

This week, as part of our Healthy Hearts programme, we designed our own healthy super smoothies!

First, we looked at all the different fruits, vegetables and seeds we could choose from and then we picked out some combinations that we thought would work well together.…

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Healthy Hearts!

Healthy Hearts!

This week we started our Young @ Heart project. The project involves us trying lots of different sports out and also learning about what makes us healthy. This week we started to think about what we fuel our bodies with and whether we can change that to make ourselves…

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Sporting Superstars!

Sporting Superstars!

We’ve had a very sporty day today in Yarrow class. The day started off with some circuit training, which definitely woke us all up! We had 4 activities to do and had to keep it up for 1 minute. It sounds easy but we were very tired after it.

Once we’d got our…

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