This week in English we have started to read an abridged version of ‘The Secret Garden’. We have explored the first few chapters thinking about Mary and what has happened to her. Throughout the week, we have continued with our inference skills looking for evidence in the text. We have also been continuing to work … Read more
Welcome back! We hope you’ve had a relaxing half term. In our final week of our Victorians topic we have been learning all about the life of Florence Nightingale. Having watched video clips and shared the information we gained from our reading homework, we planned biographies of Florence. We thought about her early life, her … Read more
Welcome back, we hope you had a good break. This week we started by sharing the story ‘Mr Wolf’s Pancakes’, you could ask your children what Mr Wolf did to all his neighbours! The children then talked about a time they had eaten a pancake and their favourite toppings. Using their knowledge of letters and … Read more
This week Year One have continued use number bonds to add and subtract. The children have been using a number line to counting forward and backs. Poetry has also been very loved by the children and they have enjoyed writing their own poems this week. In phonics the children have been practising their spellings. Children … Read more
In English this week we have been writing alternative endings to ‘How to Live Forever’. We have thought about what would happen if Peter had decided to open the book and based our story endings around this. Throughout this writing, lots of us have been continuing to work on the use of adjectives and adverbs … Read more
This week we have been writing poems set in Victorian times. We shared a poem called ‘The Chimney Sweep’s Story’ by Wes Magee, looking particularly at the structure of the verses and the poet’s vocabulary choices. After that we brainstormed ideas for our own poems set in other Victorian workplaces – either a coal mine … Read more
This week in class R we have been answering our learning questions “How do trucks work?” and “How do cars work?”. We talked about gears and cogs and how they work. The children explored the gears in the classroom, they created tall towers and managed to move all the cogs by just turning one. On … Read more
English: The children have been indulging themselves in a variety of myths such as Pandora’s Box, Theseus and the Minotaur and Perseus and Medusa. We have begun to plan and write our own myths. We have also been expanding our vocabulary by identifying new words and applying them in the context of the stories. Maths: … Read more
This week the Year 1 children have been subtracting numbers by getting to ten first. We have been practising to subtract using our number bonds of numbers to 10. For English the children have been learning poetry. We’ve learnt, rehearsed in groups and performed the poem to the class. Due to James Cater being poorly … Read more
In reading this week, we read to the end of ‘How to Live Forever’ by Colin Thompson. We thought carefully about the Ancient Child and what we know about him. We have continued to work on using inference skills to be able to answer questions about what we have read. In English, we finished off … Read more
