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We ordered the plot of Girl of Ink and Stars to show understanding ready for our narrative retell.

Our Maths lessons have revolved around the topic of addition and subtraction, and using the bar and part-whole methods to help us break down tricky questions into manageable calculations.

Our…

This week, despite the sniffles that the cold weather has bought on, we have worked tremendously well in all our learning. We continue to be the best that we can be!

In English, we are aiming to write a character description of the wolf from the story Little Red Riding Hood. We will be writing…

This week we have made so much progress in all areas, I’m so impressed with Penguins attitude this week, well done! 
In English we have started our new genre - a Wanted Poster to describe. We are going to write a poster describing the villain of our story (the wolf) so that he can be caught! We…

English 

In English this week we have been working on writing a character description. Earlier in the week we completed a guided write for Daddy Bear describing both his appearance and personality. We worked to include all the features of a sentence including capital letters, finger spaces and…

This week, we have explored Scandinavia, learnt about global biomes and sequenced key events from a text. Intrigued? Read on to find out more. 

In History this week, we dissected the reasons Vikings left Scandinavia. We learnt that there were four key reasons they set sail across the North Sea…

Another week done and only 3 left to go until half term, it's amazing how fast time is flying by.

In English this week, we have started our second writing genre, a third person re-tell. We decided to do ours based on Chapter 3 of Rumaysa where we see her first interaction with the witch. We…

I can not believe we are at the end of week 4 already. The children have worked exceptionally hard this week and as always I an extremely proud of each and everyone one of them. Our value this week has been respect. We have talked about what this means and how we can show this in and around the…

A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!

In our English learning this week, we've continued our work relating to 'Rumaysa', completing our drafting process, before moving on to our extended writes.  We've discussed the use of adverbials and fronted adverbials, before applying this skill.…

It has been another busy week in Y4 Manatees. Despite it only been a four day week, we have still completed lots of fantastic learning. Take a look below at what we have learnt about this week.

Grammar

This week in Grammar we focused on using different sentence openers to avoid repetition…

This week, we have been learning all about our feelings and emotions. We discussed what emotions are and spoke about the different emotions we feel. 

We read 'The Colour Monster' to support our learning. We related what we read in the book to our own personal experiences, for example, thinking…

English 

In English this week we have been exploring how to incorporate high-level openers into our writing to avoid repetition. Towards the end of the week we have been learning how to link ideas together in sentences/paragraphs to assist the fluidity of our writing. We are looking forward to…

This week we have been learning all about our emotions. We have used the story 'The Colour Monster' to support our learning. The children are great at sitting down and listening to the story, they can answer questions, discuss the features of the story and are able to relate events to their…