What’s happening in Year 2 – Week 3
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"]...
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...
Year 3 have had a fantastic week learning all about migration and the Empire Windrush as part of their Diverse Britain learning. They read 'We Sang Across the Sea' by Benjamin Zephaniah and used inspiration from this text to create story maps about people's journeys...
This half term, Year 6 have been taking inspiration from Macbeth; A Shakespeare Story by Andrew Matthews and Tony Ross. Last week, the children wrote descriptions to convey the character of Lady Macbeth at different point throughout the storyline. Here is a snippet of some...
Year 5 published their recount writing through performance. In groups, they each read a paragraph of their own writing, while the other children accompanied them with actions to further convey meaning and emotion. These fantastic performances were uploaded to the Seesaw app so that parents...
In writing, Year 5 wrote a recount based on our key text: Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. We included five senses description to engage the reader, empty words to build tension, and our grammar focus was the use fronted adverbials. Below...
This week in literacy linked to our core text ‘What the ladybird heard’ written by Julia Donaldson, the children mapped out the route the thieves (Hefty Hugh and Lanky Len) follow to help them catch the prize cow shed. We used positional language whilst describing the...
For this writing cycle, we are writing an adventure narrative to continue Arthur's trip. He has found his first item to create the Golden Rope, and we are now going to find out about his journey to find his second. Determined to succeed and to make...