We have made a start on our new science topic, Changing Materials. We have been thinking about all the different materials that things are made of. We are looking forward to doing some investigations to see how materials can change. In maths lessons we have been working on challenges to find out the difference between … Read more
Welcome back and Happy New Year. I hope you all had a good break and enjoyed the Christmas cakes. This week we have been thinking about the value of 2-digit numbers, playing maths games and solving some tricky problems. We had a visit from Julia Skinner from 100wc ( 100 word count blog challenge) She … Read more
We have had an exciting week, watching dramatic Christmas creations and performing our Nativity play. I’m sure you will agree that all of the performances were fantastic, festive productions. Well done everyone! To develop our writing, some year 6 children came to our class to lead small groups and help us to write good descriptions. … Read more
It has been a busy week as we crank up to Christmas. We have been busy singing, learning our words and having lots of rehearsals for the play. This week in English we have been thinking about information writing and have focussed on the topic Cats & Dogs. We have discussed the difference between fact … Read more
This week we have moved on to reading and writing stories. We have been reading lots of stories that feature dragons such as George and the Dragon. We have been looking at different versions of the same story, focusing on the details and descriptions. We have been planning our stories, thinking of good adjectives to … Read more
In our English lessons we have been studying poetry. As part of the New Curriculum we have to learn and recite some poetry. We have been reading, enjoying and learning by heart, Edward Lear’s nonsense poem The Owl and the Pussycat. I have been very impressed and pleased with the amount of effort that was … Read more
This week we enjoyed the last few days of golden, autumn leaves before they went soggy in the damp weather. We looked at examples of Andy Goldsworthy’s art, explored the grounds, collected a range of leaves and twigs and made our own natural artwork out of the things we found. We learnt how to use … Read more
Firstly I want to say thank you to all the parents who invested time and effort helping their children with their homework last week. We have really enjoyed reading the letters in class and listening to the thoughts and feelings of the crayons. Writing in crayon is tricky but everyone managed very well. We have … Read more
English In English we read a book by Drew Daywalt called, The Day the Crayons Quit. In the book the crayons individually write to their owner Duncan, to complain how overworked they are feeling. We each pretended to be a colour crayon and write a letter of complaint. It proved to be an inspiring book … Read more
Last week we enjoyed preparing bread and painting pictures for the Harvest Festival last Friday. We mixed together some bread dough and made it into a wheat sheaf as part of our preparations for the Harvest festival. During afternoon break we cut it up, buttered it and enjoyed eating it in the sunshine. In our … Read more
