Coronation celebrations
We have had a lovely day beginning with our crown parade in the hall. This afternoon we decorated Union Jack flags to take to our Cornonation party. Later on, we made Coronation bookmarks and reflected upon previous Queen’s coronation. We are all super excited for tomorrow and some of the…
Coronation fun!
Year 5 Dolphins had a great time celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III today!
Wonderful Writing
This week in writing we have written our independent write which was an informal letter from the perspective of our main character Lila. Year 4 have produced some marvellous pieces of writing! We are now using our year 4 skills without even thinking. Well done year 4 keep up the hard work!
Our crown creations
Wow! Look at our wonderful crowns that we have created for King Charles’ Coronation! We talked about what the word coronation means and what we are celebrating so that the children understood why today is a special day. Lots of us recognised King Charles when we looked at some pictures!
Super scientists!
Working as scientists, we set up various experiments around our classroom to see what plants really need in order to grow into healthy plants. We placed some cress seeds in sunlight, some in dark places, watered some and didn’t water some of the cress seeds. We’ll observe what happens to the…
Story Mountain
We were super impressed with our Story Mountain for the Worst Witch today. We worked together to think about the features of a story including the introduction, build up, problem, resolution and the ending. We listened carefully to the story and participated in group discussion. This is something…
We’re going on a shape hunt!
Today we have enjoyed going on a shape hunt! Firstly, we named all of the shapes that we know using our flash cards. We then identified these shapes in our environment, discovering that they were the shape of lots of our everyday items! We also talked about how many sides each of our shapes…
Paper Weaving
Today we used our cutting and fine motor skills to create weave paper. We found it tricky at first but once we got the hang of it the results were fantastic.
Forming our names
Today we enjoyed searching for all of the letters in our names on the bottle lids and putting them in order to spell our names. We then used the paper to form the letters in our name - we have been practicing doing this using in beautiful handwriting using the correct letter formation!
some of…
Forming our names
Today we enjoyed searching for all of the letters in our names on the bottle lids and putting them in order to spell our names. We then used the paper to form the letters in our name - we have been practicing doing this using in beautiful handwriting using the correct letter formation!
some of…
All hail Macbeth, King of Scotland!
We used freeze-frames to practise our acting skills and we put those to use to bring the banquet for Macbeth to life! We had some brilliant, budding actors and actresses who shone throughout their roleplay. Well done Whales, your confidence increased throughout the lesson. We are so proud of you…
Stone Age hunter-gatherers
We’ve been learning about hunter-gatherers in the Stone Age and had to work out which items of food were hunted and which items were gathered by our human ancestors.