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
We have been redesigning some of our favourite book covers. How impressive are our drawings?!
For our English lesson today, we had an experience day where we went for a walk in the deep, dark wood. We used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary to use in our writing. We discussed what Little Red Riding Hood might see, hear hear and feel and how she might Read more
This week we have been learning about South Africa, our focus has been the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’. In literacy we started by retelling the story using our own character masks. Handa put seven delicious fruit in a basket for her friend , Akeyo. However those cheeky animals took a different Read more