Over the last half term, Year 6 have been exploring the story of Macbeth, as retold by Andrew Matthews and illustrated by Tony Ross. The children have loved getting to know the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and King Duncan. In our next cycle of writing,...
This week, Year 5 began a new writing cycle, creating a suspenseful action scene, based on our class text Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. We immersed ourselves in this style of writing on Monday, analysing the language used by a range of...
In computing this week, year 4 were learning how to write their own code on Turtle Academy. They learnt that it was very important to be specific when writing the code and that computers have their own specific language which must be used to write...
This week, year 3 had a fantastic trip to The British Museum. To consolidate their learning on Ancient Egypt, year 3 explored the Ancient Egyptian collection. They observed primary sources of hieroglyphics, images from tombs and even saw some real mummies! It was a fantastic chance...
During our Science lesson this week we discussed life cycles, in particular the life cycle of a frog. There are four stages in the life cycle of a frog and the metamorphosis that takes place between egg and adult frog is quite amazing! The children...
As part of our Geography learning Year 1 took a walk around our local area. We were looking around to research what different lands were used for. We completed a survey to find out what was the most common land use in our local area. [gallery...
This week in Reception our highlight was definitely World Book Day! We loved dressing up as our favourite books and sharing stories together all day. The morning started with a Jack and the Beanstalk story telling workshop with lots of acting out the key parts...
During our Spring Term two topic ‘Farm Animals’, we focused on the book ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ by Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks. Linking to one of the main characters in the story ‘the ladybird’, children drew a ladybird by looking at the different features...
On Friday, the children took part in celebrating World Book Day 2024. We would like to say a huge well done to each and every one of you that dressed up as your favourite characters; your costumes looked amazing! Can you take a guess what...
This week in writing, our writing group were learning all about speech marks and when to use them in our writing. We learnt that speech marks are used to indicate what has been said. We open what has been said with a speech mark and...