This week we have been reading the story ‘The Three Little Pigs’. We started the week off by reading the story and talked about the different characters from the story. In our topic afternoon we talked about the different materials used to build the pig’s houses and discussed the properties Read more…
This half term we are learning all about fairy tales and the areas in the classroom have changed to make them all about fair tales. We started the week off exploring the areas, we have the castle area, the Three Little Pigs building site, Jack’s house, the porridge area, the Read more…
This week, Year 5 have started a writing unit of work based on the book ‘Moth’ by Isabel Thomas. The book is a narrative poem telling the story of natural selection and evolution using the peppered moth. The children have enjoyed being immersed into the book and learning about the Read more…
Welcome back to school, we hope you had a lovely break 🙂 We have been doing lots of lovely things today, including looking at our new book ‘The Queen’s Hat’. We asked the Queen lots of questions about her life and how she felt when she lost her hat. Read more…
Over the last few weeks, Year 6 have been working extremely hard in all topics. One area in particular that they have been focusing on, is their spellings. They have been practising all spellings from the year 3,4,5 and 6 list via the use of games. Today, both classes played Read more…
This morning Maple have been learning about pronouns. We worked hard to identify pronouns within our own writing. Applying our understanding of nouns, we replaced nouns identified within our work, with pronouns. As part of our extension work we investigated personal. possessive and relative pronouns. Playing a sorting game, we Read more…
This week we have started our new unit in English – instructions. To begin we had to use the ‘shapes’ to put instructions in the correct order. Once they were in the right order we had to follow these instructions to make a bird feeder. Afterwards we put the bird Read more…
This week we have started a new unit in English- instructions. We used ‘shapes’ to help us piece together different parts of the instructions and put them in the right order. When they were in the correct order we then followed the instructions to make bird feeder. When we had Read more…
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about India and have focused on the story ‘Festival Of Colours’. The children use the flowers they have to create powder colours and use it to throw during the Holi Festival. In writing we have been able to write down the colours Read more…
This half term, we are reading the story ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ in English. Last week, as part of our experience lessons, we went for a walk in forest school, pretended we were Little Red Riding Hood and used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary about what she might see, Read more…