Bonjour! This week we have been getting letters from Bertie Bear who has gone on holiday to France. We have looked at different French landmarks and have used lots of different adjectives to describe them. We have also had a go at saying different French words including French foods. On Read more…
We had lots of fun for World Book Day – everyone made lots of effort dressing up and looked fantastic. We have been trying to complete as many of the ‘25 ways to celebrate World Book Day’ challenges. These are some of the different activities we have completed: We drew Read more…
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Year 6 looked at learning, writing and performing a range of poems to celebrate reading. We also designed front covers for the class novels which have inspired our reading and writing this year. All of our activities have helped contribute towards meeting Read more…
Today we have all celebrated World Book Day. Everyone has dresses up as a book character and we all look fantastic! We have been very busy today. We have read lots of different stories, discussed why we enjoy reading, shared our favourite books and discussed why, made a world book Read more…
Today we took part in a live lesson listening to famous authors and illustrators discuss their work. We have created some amazing poems about reading using metaphors. We really enjoyed playing a metaphor game where we hunted for matching pairs in class. This afternoon we read an extract from the Read more…
As part of our World Book Day celebrations, Year 6 looked at learning, writing and performing a range of poems to celebrate reading. We also designed front covers for the class novels which have inspired our reading and writing this year. All of our activities have helped contribute Read more…
Today has been World Book Day. The children from Maple all looked fabulous dressed up in their favourite character costumes. We began the day by writing a review of our favourite books – books by Roald Dahl and David Walliams were very popular! We took part in a ‘live lesson’ Read more…
This week we have been learning about France, looking at the language they speak, the food they eat and also landmarks within France. Bertie had been to France and left us a letter to read and we guessed where we thought he was. We then worked together to write him Read more…
This week in grammar, Year 5 have been looking at how we can alter sentences that use more than 2 verbs. We looked at various images and chose a noun and 2 verbs, then created a simple ‘and’ sentence using the vocabulary we had chosen. We then looked at how Read more…
Maple have been learning about main and subordinate clauses this morning. We worked hard on identifying each one and moving the clauses around to make new sentences. We tried really hard to punctuate our sentences correctly, and even linked them to our cross curricular writing about ‘The Water Cycle’.