Image of Year 1 - English - Writing Facts About Mice.
9 Oct

Year 1 - English - Writing Facts About Mice.

Year 1 watched a clip that taught us some really interesting facts about mice. We discussed them and orally rehearsed them before writing them down in our small groups. Later, we presented our facts to the class.

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9 Oct

Year 6 English

Starting our independent writing in English, showcasing the vocabulary and grammatical features we have learnt so far! We are really pleased with the outcomes so far and how imaginative the story has been, and I am excited to see how they will come to their conclusions tomorrow.

Image of Year 4 English - Role on the Wall
8 Oct

Year 4 English - Role on the Wall

We have now moved on to our fiction section of The Loch Ness unit, and we have been looking at The Treasure of the Loch Ness Monster story. We thought about the characters of Ishbel and Kenneth, and used words to describe their characters, justifying with evidence.

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8 Oct

Year 3 Library

Every Tuesday lunchtime Year 3 have the chance to visit the library to change their own Home Reading books. They enjoy looking at the different books as well as reading them to each other.

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4 Oct

Year 6 English

Using images and working together to describe our unique ‘Room of Wonders’, inspired by the Nowhere Emporium.

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4 Oct

Reception Class - Name Writing

The children have had a go at writing their name using their name card. I asked the children if they could identify any letters from their name, some children could. As the children were writing, we discussed correct pencil grip and I supported the children to achieve this. Some children could form some letters and some children made marks to represent the different letters in their name.

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3 Oct

Year 4 Art

This week, we finished our second novel of the year - The Danger Gang! As our art unit is about drawing stories, we decided to illustrate out favourite moments from the book, and add a catchy caption. There were some excellent captions and sketches by all of the children.

Image of Year 2 English - Boxing Up Facts
3 Oct

Year 2 English - Boxing Up Facts

Year 2 became 'talking experts' about lions. They brainstormed all their facts and added them to a non-fiction text box up ready for writing.

Image of Year 2 English - Safari Animal Research
30 Sep

Year 2 English - Safari Animal Research

In English we have started our non-fiction writing by researching our chosen animal. We used online books to discover the answers to our question: What are their offspring called? Where do they live? What do they eat? Then we found some interesting extra facts.

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25 Sep

Year 6 Spelling Practice

Year 6 had to practice their spelling using segment words and then had to put them into the correct syllables and phonemes.

Image of Year 5 English - Top Trumps of Mythical Monsters!
19 Sep

Year 5 English - Top Trumps of Mythical Monsters!

In English, Year 5 are learning about different ancient, mythical monsters to create a character for our stories based on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. We used Mythical Monsters Top Trumps to help us begin to learn about these creatures!

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18 Sep

Year 4 English

As part of our English unit, 'The Loch Ness', year 4 have been looking at infographics, which are a type of fact-based text using images to help the reader understand. We have explored infographics and conducted our own Nessie research, ready to write our own.