Linked to our literacy core texted book ‘The Everywhere Bear’ written by Julia Donaldson, the children were encouraged to use a range of 2d shapes to create a representation of the main character from the text. The children were encouraged to think about the appearance...
This week, Year 5 have been learning to play the ukulele in music. They have been learning how to place their fingers on the frets to play a variety of chords and to strum the strings to play in unison. [gallery ids="15530,15528"] In writing lessons, Year 5...
This week in Reception we have been immersing ourselves in the story of the Three Little Pigs. We build houses of different materials, did a character study of the Big Bad Wolf and were inspired in our writing speech bubbles for the three little pigs. We also...
During our Writing immersion lesson the children used their senses to describe what they could see, taste and touch. They used some fabulous adjectives. Take a look...
In further celebration of Black History Month, Year 5 visited Hackney Museum's "Our Words: Stories from African Communities in Hackney" exhibition. We discovered items such as traditional dress from across Africa and learnt some key words in Swahili and Lingala. We then wrote poems and...
This week, we have been punctuating direct speech to write our book reviews. We collated opinions of what we thought of the ending of Stone Age Boy and used colours to represent the different components we need to include when using direct speech in our...
During our writing lesson the children acted out the story of The Odd Egg. This is a story of a duck who finds an egg who all the other birds think is extremely odd! We used some amazing adjectives to describe the egg and to...
Linked to this week's literacy core text ‘Lulu Gets A Cat’, in nursery we created a class book based on our favourite pets. We labelled the different body features and discussed how we can care for pets. [gallery ids="15105,15106"]...
In Year 6, the children have been reading and taking inspiration for their writing from key text: The Silver Sword by Ian Serralier. The week the children wrote setting descriptions of a prison camp in Zakyna, where the main character Joseph Balicki, is being held after being...
Our book for writing in Year 1 this term is called The Odd Egg. The children were so inspired by the shiny, unusual eggs designed by their Teacher Miss Thompson, they did their own egg collages, using different types of paper and colour. As you...