Week beginning 13/03/23
A great week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us investigate how to correctly use homophones, before then applying them independently to our writing. We then moved on to completing our extended writes that were in journalistic style. We wrote amazing…
Week beginning 06/03/23
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…
Week beginning 27/02/23
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning this week, we began by investigating the correct use of hyphens when joining prefixes to a route word beginning with a vowel, for example, re-examine and co-ordinate. we learnt that the meaning of the prefix can affect the…
Week beginning 06/02/23
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In English this week, we have completed our new character extended writes, then edited and improved them. We focused on all of our year five skills learnt so far. The new characters were very varied - we have written about cheetahs, ninjas and…
Week beginning 30/01/23
A super week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English lessons this week, we've continued our work relating to 'The wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum. We used our planning from the previous week, in which we created alternative characters, to draft a new chapter. We began the week…
Week beginning 02/01/23
A short, but sweet first week back in Dolphin Class!
A slightly shorter first week back blog, due to our learning only covering three days this week, but we still packed lots in!
In our English learning, we have began to investigate our new text, 'The wonderful wizard of Oz' by L. Frank…
Week beginning 5/12/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us continue our work relating to diary entries. After completing some grammar work on Monday to help with our understanding of homophones, we then completed our extended write over Tuesday and Wednesday,…
Week beginning 28/11/22
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our morning sessions have been mostly taken up with our end of term assessments this week. These assessments help us to identify gaps in learning, which we can then use to plan for the next term's learning.
We did however, manage to squeeze in…
Week beginning 21/11/22
A marvellous week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us finish one writing genre and begin another. We started the week by completing our extended writes in relation to our third person narrative retell. We investigated how to use commas to clarify meaning,…
Week beginning 14/11/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class this week!
Our English learning this week has has seen us continue with our work relating to Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. We began the week by looking at how we could use exclamation marks for effect within our work, before then moving…
Week beginning 7/11/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us investigate our new writing genre, third person narrative recount. We began the week looking at our punctuation skills, in relation to plural possessive apostrophes, before then moving into magpieing our…
Week beginning 31/10/22
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning, we have begun a new text, 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian. We began the week by discussing the front and back covers of the book, making predictions based on evidence we could see - for example, we could see…