When we arrived at school we noticed footprints left by Father Christmas, we quickly read the note he had left us. Father Christmas left us a book and this week we have been reading the story ‘Harvey Slumfenburger’s Christmas present’. We found out that Father Christmas travelled in lots of Read more…
This week we have been reading the story ‘The Gruffalo’s child’, we identified the characters in the story and we worked together to Fred talk the sounds. During choosing time we have been able to create our own footprints using paint and played with our very own Gruffalo crumble. We Read more…
In literacy we have been reading the story the little red hen. The animals did not want to help the hen make the bread until it was time to eat the bread. However the little red hen decided she was not going to share the bread with the other animals. The Read more…
We came in the classroom and noticed underpants everywhere! We had no idea who had left them there and someone had left us a letter. The letter was from the pirates and they needed our help to find the golden underpants. We read the story and decided we needed to Read more…
This afternoon, Maple have been learning about the digestive system. We watched Mrs Grindrod show us how our teeth and saliva mashed up some banana and biscuit. We learnt how the food travels down our oesophagus and into our stomach. Read one of our letters to ‘Mr Toilet’ to find Read more…
Maple have been learning about the art of persuasion in English! We began by reading a letter addressed to David Walliams, which was trying to convince him to visit our school and help us with our reading. We worked really hard to pick out all of the persuasive language and Read more…
In history, we have been leaving about Christopher Columbus. We had to ‘explore’ the playground to find out facts about his life. We had to search for pictures of his ship to help answer questions. We worked really well together to find all of the answers.
Since returning to school, Year 5 have been producing some fantastic writing based on an animated clip named ‘The present’. So far in our writing, a computer game obsessed Ben, has just received a special gift from his mum. When Ben opens the gift he is surprised to find a Read more…
This morning we went outside to collect leaves during our forest school lesson. We then used these leaves to create an owl picture. Our new story for English is ‘The owl who was afraid of the dark’ so for our first English lesson we had an experience day where we Read more…
We’ve had a fun first week back playing games and learning about pirates. We had a great time making pirate hats and eyes patches during our pirate party. The children have all settled into Year 2 really well and have behaved exceptionally. Images to follow…