This week in Reception we have finished our core text Jack and the Beanstalk by demonstrating fantastic story writing skills. We identified the key parts of the story and particularly worked on finger spaces and full stops. Well done to Etienne for his fantastic work! ...
Year 2 created great pieces of homework on British values, whereby they used illustrations to represent each of the values: respect, democracy, liberty, rule of law and tolerance. [gallery ids="13414,13415,13416,13417,13418,13419,13420,13421"]...
This term, Year 5 have been writing diary entries based on our key writing text Warrior Boy by Virginia Clay. The diary entries are written from the perspective of Ben, the main character, who is travelling to Kenya for the first time to meet his father's family....
This week, Year 4 explored a character's internal struggles with a conscience alley. Our character, Issa, must choose between his friends, who are marching for freedom in his country, or his family, who disagree with his ideas. We were able to see both points of...
In writing this week we created our own story boards based on the man on the moon story. We thought about what the main character was doing and how we could describe the event. [gallery ids="13308,13309,13310,13311,13312"]...
Year 3 have been writing character descriptions of the Amazon Rainforest, based on the text The Great Kapok Tree. They used a range of sentence starters to create powerful descriptions and changed the tone of each paragraph between positive and negative. Carelessly marching in the humid...
Year 2 created great pieces of homework about the British Monarchy. We have loved reading the wonderful facts that they have produced ahead of the Coronation Weekend! [gallery ids="13157,13158,13159,13160"]...
As Reception class has become more confident as writers, we have enjoyed using different implements to write and draw. This week we enjoyed writing spy messages to each other using invisible pens. The messages were revealed when we shone a light on them. We also...
This half term Year 5 are starting a new writing cycle based on 'Warrior Boy' by Virginia Clay. The book tells the story of Ben, who travels from London to Kenya to meet his Maasai family. This week in our immersion lesson, we used non-fiction...
This week in Nursery, linked to our new topic 'Minibeasts' and core text 'Aaaarrgghh Spider!' we created a 'Nursery's facts about spiders' book by gathering information from non-fiction books and videos. Some interesting facts we learnt was that baby spiders are called spiderlings and not all spiders make...