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This week we have started looking at our poetry topic, we have been reading a poem call ‘Recipe to make a wolf’ by Pie Corbett. We started by discussing what we liked and dislikes about the poem. On Wednesday we started looking at ideas of how we could start writing our poem, together…

This week we have been learning about life cycles. We learnt about the life cycle of frog. We watched videos and looked at photos to learn about each stage of the frog’s life cycle. We discovered that frogs begin their life as frogspawn, before hatching into tadpoles. We found out that the…

English

This week in English we have been writing an alternative retail of lost and found. The children chose to change the character of the penguin to an alien, and they said that he went to space rather than the South Pole. our focus this week was using conjunctions and the suffixes ing and…

In English this week we have continued to write our alternative chapter from our story Paddington! We used our new setting of an airport to write the chapter using all of the vocabulary and skills we learned last week. Below are a couple of examples of our Independent Write which Miss Smith and…

In our Writing lessons, we have been reading about the events at camp from our class text, ‘Wonder’. We learnt how Amos, Miles and Henry showed courage to defend Auggie, and showed our understanding through answering comprehension questions and writing a social media post as one of the…

Writing 

In Writing this week, we have completed editing our independent writes from last week which were persuasive letters. On Tuesday, the children were introduced to a very new style of writing such as poetry, as their next independent write will be slightly different as it will be a…

This week in our English lessons, we have completed our independent write of an alternative setting in our first chapter of Paddington.  We then moved to looking at informal features of a letter and began to plan our letter to Aunt Lucy.  We used our prior knowledge of London to describe places…

This week in Duck class we have been been learning about the life cycle of a frog. The children have loved observing the stages and discussing what happens. We have read stories, watched a video and discussed each stage. To help us with our learning we made life cycle hats! We coloured in the…

Writing

This week in writing we immersed ourselves in our class text ‘Wonder’ and answered a range of VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval, summarise) questions showing our understanding of the text and to help us prepare for our new genre of writing.

Year 6…

In our English learning, we have continued our journalistic writing work.  We began the week by revisiting apostrophes and how we use them for both singular and plural possession. Following this we began drafting our newspaper reports, starting with an opening introduction paragraph that uses the…

A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!

In our English learning, we have continued our journalistic writing work.  We began the week by revisiting apostrophe use and its different uses. We then began drafting our newspaper reports, starting with an opening introduction paragraph that…

What’s a wonderful but snowy week we have had this week! Although it was a bit of a distraction the children have really enjoyed this now and we are still super focused on their learning.

English

this week in English we have worked on retelling the story of lost and found. To begin the week…