This week we have been turning our storyboards into stories about Paddington Bear, in particular ‘Paddington takes a bath’. We had to think of all the things that we needed to do in order to make sure our story was well written. We had to think very carefully about our sentence basics (capital letters, full … Read more
This week we have continued to enjoy Paddington stories and have been basing our English work on these. We watched a clip called ‘Paddington takes and Bath’ and read the story as well. Using these, we blocked out the main stages of the story in a story map then Mrs Lucas tried telling the story; … Read more
In our English lessons this week we have watched some Paddington Bear clips and collected a range of adjectives to describe his personality and his appearance. Later in the week we started writing descriptions of him, adding as much detail as possible. Our key learning question in Maths this week has been: How can you … Read more
Welcome to Class 2. We’re really proud of how well the children have settled in to their new class and have already been doing some brilliant learning. Since being back at school we have started our London topic. We have thought of lots of interesting questions that we would like to find the answers … Read more
We started our short week with an RE day on Tuesday. Our focus was ‘Creation’ and we learned about the different beliefs people have regarding this. First we shared the creation story from the Bible and discussed what Christians and Jews believe about creation. We then thought about a scientific theory about creation, thinking about … Read more
This week in English, we continued to look at the story of Wild. We broke the story up into the introduction, the build-up, the problem, the resolution and the ending. We then thought about what happened during each stage and how the main character was feeling. We then started to rewrite the story of ‘Wild’ … Read more
To start the week, in English, we planned and wrote recounts about our fantastic visit to the Explorer Dome. We wrote in the past tense and took care to sequence our ideas in chronological order, using time conjunctions to help us. Later in the week we returned to our ‘Wild’ text and read the next … Read more
This week in English we have continued to listen to the book ‘Wild’. We have used the setting of the story as the basis for our own writing. We have had to think really carefully about all the different things we might see, hear or smell in a forest/jungle setting. We then had to put … Read more
This week we have started looking at a new text but we’ve not read much of it yet. Instead we have been investigating the front cover to see what we can discover about the main character. We discussed who she might be, her appearance, where we think she lives, what she does all day and … Read more
This week in English we have started to think about ‘Superbugs’. We had to design our own superbugs, write detailed captions and then plan and write about what our superbug looks like, where it lives, what it eats and how it survives. We had to make sure our writing was in the present tense and … Read more
