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’.
This week in Literacy we have been learning all about healthy eating. We know all the superheroes need to eat healthy food to make sure they are super strong to save the day. We have been tasting fruit to decide which fruit we liked the most. We came up some Read more
Year 6 have been working extremely hard to produce some excellent work in our English lessons. During our grammar session today, we looked at different ways in which we can improve a very simple sentence. The children worked in pairs to add in adjectives, adverbs, similes and relative clauses to Read more
That cheeky Evil Pea has been up to no good again! When we arrived at school we had some letters from our friends. They had seen the Evil Pea in our local shops and when we got to school all of our carrots were frozen! It was our job to Read more