This week in English we have continued to read our abridged version of The Secret Garden. We have now met Colin and we have been thinking carefully about how Mary is helping him to feel better about himself. We have been learning about play scripts this week and we looked at examples of play scripts … Read more
This week in English we have continued to read our abridged version of The Secret Garden. We have been thinking carefully about Mary’s character and how her personality is changing now that she has shared her secret about the garden with Dickon. Towards the end of the week, we were introduced to the character Colin … Read more
This week in English we have continued to read our abridged version of The Secret Garden. We all really enjoyed the part of the story where Mary entered the secret garden and we have been thinking carefully about how life in Yorkshire is changing Mary. This week we have been recapping our grammar work on … Read more
Thank you to all parents who came to an appointment this week, I hope you found it useful. If you would like any further details about your child’s progress, please let me know. This week in English we have continued to read our abridged version of The Secret Garden. We have thought about how Mary’s … Read more
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. We have also been continuing to work on our use of speech punctuation and we have been investigating other words for ‘said’. Next … 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 fronted adverbials and … Read more
In English this week we completed our setting descriptions. We really thought about how we could edit and improve our work based on the feedback that had been given. Later in the week, we had another recap of how we can use fronted adverbials in our work and we learnt about speech punctuation. Next week … Read more
On Monday and Tuesday of this week we had visitors from China in school. They came to our school to experience life in a British school and we hope that they enjoyed it. Before Christmas, we wrote letters to these Chinese children and they shared reply letters with us, lots of us were lucky enough … Read more
In English we have been continuing to read ‘How to Live Forever’. We have been discussing questions about the text looking closely at where the evidence is. We have all written newspaper reports this week and lots of us focused on how to use adverbs in our writing. Towards the end of the week we … Read more
This week in English we have been continuing to read ‘How to Live Forever’. We have been looking closely at the text and the illustrations so that we can use evidence when explaining our ideas. In our writing we have continued to explore the use of adverbs within our sentences and some of us have … Read more
