In English this week we have continued to read ‘Stig of the Dump’ and we have been thinking about the break in at Granny’s house. In our groups, we created story maps to show the events that happened. We have also looked at examples of police reports and identified the features of this style of … Read more
On Monday, Class 4 visited the History of Science Musuem in Oxford to do a workshop on the history of medicine. We started off by learning about al-Zahrawi who was an Islamic medical scholar living in Spain around 300 years ago. Al-Zahrawi wrote many books about the surgical instruments and he worked on the use … Read more
In English this week we have continued to read ‘Stig of the Dump’. We have been finding out about what Stig and Barney have been doing and we looked at the way the author describes how cold Stig is when Barney visits after Christmas. We have also been creating our own estate agent information pages … Read more
Welcome back to Term 6. We hope that you all had an enjoyable half term break. In English and reading this week we have started our new book which is ‘Stig of the Dump’ by Clive King. We have read the first 2 chapters and throughout this we have been thinking about what we know … Read more
In English this week we have finished reading ‘The Wolves in the Walls’. We were all correct with our predictions that the family would break through the walls and back into the house but most of us were not expecting what happened after that! During our reading sessions, we have thought carefully about how the … Read more
In English this week we have continued with our work using ‘The Wolves in the Walls’. We have been writing our own stories based on what the family would do having decided that they don’t want to live at the bottom of the garden anymore. Throughout our writing, we were thinking about following our next … Read more
In English this week we have continued to read ‘The Wolves in the Walls’. Having finished writing our own stories we found out what happened in the book after the wolves had come out of the walls. We identified the connections that the author makes in the book such as how the wolves are eating … Read more
In English this week we have been reading ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ up to when the wolves really did come out of the walls. We have looked at the language choices that the author has made in order to engage the reader and make us want to read on. We have been busy writing … Read more
Welcome back! I hope that you all had a lovely Easter break. In English this week we have started reading ‘The Wolves in the Walls’ by Neil Gaiman. We have been thinking very carefully about what we know about the characters from the text as well as what the pictures tell us. We have been … Read more
This week in English we finished reading the Secret Garden. We thought carefully about the ending and the way that Colin is reunited with his father. We have written and edited our own play scripts this week. The scripts were based on part of The Secret Garden story for example when Mary and Colin first … Read more
