Year 5 (Class 15) - English - Handwriting
Mrs Dyer is very impressed with the attitude and dedication of some boys in class 15 who are working hard to improve their handwriting.
Well done.
Category: Year 5
Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Titanic Book
Class 16 enjoyed reading the opening chapters of ‘I survived the sinking of the Titanic, 1912.’
Children used their inference skills to explain why characters might have behaved as they did and children also highlighted unfamiliar words and used the text around the words to explain the meaning…
Category: Year 6
Year 2 (Class 7) - English - Author Visit
Year 2 had an author visit. They listened to a twisted fairy tale by Bethan Woollvin, learnt about the process of writing and illustrating a book and learnt how to draw the characters.
We will be continuing to do work on her version of Rapunzel in class.
Category: Year 2
Year 1 (Class 3) - English - Alphabet Puzzle
Some children in class 3 decided to try the alphabet caterpillar puzzle today.
Myself and Miss O'Brien are very impressed with the teamwork they showed to complete it.
Category: Year 1
Year 4 (Class 11) - English - Oliver Twist Vocabulary
Class 11 worked in their collaborative pairs to find new vocabulary in a chapter of Oliver Twist.
We then discussed the new words and what we thought they meant by reading the sentence they were in.
Category: Year 4
Year 2 (Class 5) - English - Imaginary Castles
Children in class 5 worked in groups to label parts of an imaginary castle.
They used their knowledge of non-fiction texts to understand labels and how they are used.
Category: Year 2
Year 1 (Class 3) - English - The Highway Rat
Class 3 have loved learning about the highway rat this week.
Some children even drew their own fantastic pictures of him.
Category: Year 1
Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Writing & Editing
We have been learning how to edit writing. We worked in pairs to improve a passage using CUPS (Capitals, Understanding, Punctuation, Spelling).
We talked about ways to spot errors and spelling strategies we can use to help us.
Category: Year 3
Year 3 - Class 9 - English - Spellings on 'Learn with Emile'
We have been practicing our spellings using the 'Learn with Emile' app.
Category: Year 3
Year 2 (Class 6) - English - Castles
We worked in groups to create our own castles using a variety of materials.
We labelled them using the new vocabulary we have been learning, such as drawbridge, portcullis, arrow loop and gate house.
Category: Year 2
Year 2 (Class 5) - English - Castles
Children in class 5 have used the vocabulary they have learnt in English to label their own castles.
They have worked together to build different castles and use words such as ‘moat’ ‘draw bridge’ ‘tower’ ‘portcullis’ and ‘gate house’.
Well…
Category: Year 2
Year 4 - Class 11 - LS Lowry
Class 11 have been looking at a picture painted by L S Lowry. They have listed things they can see, thought about where it was, what was happening and the colours that were used.
We then looked into the life of Lowry and made a fact file.
Category: Year 4