In English this week, we have continued to work on persuasive writing. We have planned and written our own texts that persuade people to visit Egypt. Our work will be displayed in the classroom. After half term we will be starting a new unit of work on myths. In Maths, we have been looking at … Read more
The week began by us receiving a letter from the DFE to congratulate us for our 100% pass rate in the phonics test that children take in year 1. It was fantastic to be recognised for our hard work in Phonics and our excellent results. Phonics is the vital component to establishing a solid foundation … Read more
Class 6 have been having a great time studying the Victorians. A bonus for that was that we went to the Victorian School Museum on Tuesday And dressed up as Victorian school children, don’t worry we still had lessons, just in 1854.Our tour guide was extremely strict in the classroom. We had to sit up … Read more
Literacy In literacy this week we have been looking at picture books. Today, we have been grammar detectives and have been looking through picture books to find relative clauses, modal verbs and parentheses. It’s been so fun! Emily Shears Here is a reminder of what each of these are, so you can be grammar detectives … Read more
In English this week, we have been continuing to think about persuasive writing. We have looked at the features of a persuasive letter and we have started to research facts about Egypt. We will be using this information next week to produce an information sheet persuading people to visit Egypt. In Maths, we have looking … Read more
It was lovely to see lots of faces at the open afternoon. I hope you all enjoyed seeing how hard the children have been working. In English we have finished our story writing topic and are now looking at information texts. We will be comparing a range of leaflets and other information texts from the … Read more
This week has been a wet one but it has not stopped us going outside to do some outdoor learning. There was a great buzz of excitement when the children learnt that they would be wearing waterproof trousers. Learning to put on and take off waterproof trousers was almost as exciting as going out in … Read more
This week the children have been looking at teens numbers and working out how many tens and ones (units) they are made of. Keep practising reading and writing teens numbers at home. Some of us can read and write larger numbers and can represent their tens/ones using Diennes equipment and coins (10p and 1p). The … Read more
This week we have been learning how we can challenge ourselves. We have been making purple pants to put on our wall to remind us about challenge. In maths we have been learning about shape, we went on a shape hunt and found a big semi-circle, rectangles, circles and triangles. On Wednesday we made Pizza, … Read more
In school we are promoting both reading and ‘talk.’ Across school all the children participate in guided reading sessions at the same time, allowing ‘buddy’ reading to take place. The younger children adore sharing books with the older pupils and it is wonderful to see the children enjoying and discussing books with each other. Research … Read more
