First of all I would like to say how impressed I have been with the quantity and quality of some of the homework. It is clear to see that the children are enjoying the variety of choices and have invested considerable time and effort, and parents too, in completing their work. Last week we all … Read more
We had a stimulating start to the day on Tuesday when the Science Dome came to school. Excitedly we crawled into the dome to watch, listen and take part in the light show. We learnt a host of fascinating facts about light and shadows and wrote about light in our science books. In class … Read more
This week we were lucky enough to have a visitor called Dr Moorhouse who is an ecologist and a children’s author. He talked about water voles, explaining about their habitat, their diet and how he used his knowledge of water voles to write children’s books that featured them. We watched a video that showed Dr … Read more
Firstly I would just like to say well done to all those who did the homework task last week. Everyone read their story to the class and it was a real pleasure to see that the children were implementing some of the skills they have been learning this term. In English we have been learning … Read more
In English we have had good fun this week as we focused our writing on a fairy tale story called The Pea and the Princess. First we wrote the story as though we were the pea. Then we wrote the story from the point of view of the prince. We all made a pea … Read more
Picasso – Art – This week we have been learning about the Spanish artist Picasso. We learnt some funny and interesting facts about him. When he was born the midwife thought he was dead at first but then something happened! (Can your child remember what happened?) We learnt about Picasso’s different painting periods such as his Blue … Read more
This week we have been working on the nuts and bolts of English grammar. We have been learning how different types of words can do different jobs in a sentence. We have learnt that the words belong to different word classes, so we have been writing sentences that have adjectives, verbs and nouns. It is … Read more
In our English lessons we have focused on recount writing and have been enjoying a book by Anne Fine, The Diary of a Killer Cat. Tuffy the cat is always getting into trouble because he brings dead animals into the house. We pretended to be Tuffy and wrote diary entries to recount all the happenings … Read more
I was impressed with those who made the effort to do the homework last week which was to write instructions for making a sandwich. There were lots of good examples with pictures and some very neat joined writing. Well done. This week we have had a grammar / sentence focus in our lessons. We … Read more
This week in English we have continued to write instructions. Everyone is getting to grips with the different types of instruction text and can recognise the main features. We have been reading a book called Beware of Boys, it has lots of crazy recipes in it to make Boy Soup, Boy Pie, Boy Pudding etc … Read more
