English
Thesaurus work
In our English lesson this morning, we used the Thesaurus’ to find alternative verbs that we could use in our poems that we are currently writing.
Art & Design
Reception – Stickman
This week, Reception were reading Stickman – we love Julia Donaldson stories and are so good at remembering the jobs of Authors and Illustrators, and what a title and blurb are. While reading stickman, we looked at the different seasons that we might see throughout the story and recognised signs Read more
Breakfast & After school club
The Dreadful Menace
Year 6 explored the language used within the Dreadful Menace poem, looking at clarifying the meaning of the language used as well as looking for synonyms to create a bank of vocabulary to use within our writing.
Breakfast & After school club
Hansel & Gretel Text Adventure
Year 6 used their story maps to create a text adventure linked to our English narrative writing. The reader makes text-based choices which decides outcomes for characters. We created pages and used navigation buttons to move to the correct page.
Careers Related Learning
Careers visit from school governor
KS2 were lucky to receive a visit from one of our governors, Helen Morton, who gave a talk on her career. She presented an assembly on her early career, education, skills required to perform her role and which subjects help with her role. She then organised a workshop for Read more
Careers Related Learning
The Gruffalo
This week, we were reading the story of The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson. We remembered that our last 2 stories were the same author, and even remembered her name. We did some lovely activities around the story: We wrote a list of the characters from the story, dressed as the Read more
Breakfast & After school club
Text Adventures
As part of our computing topic, we have looked at how to plan a text-based adventure game. We used 2Connect to map out a text-based adventure game based on our current book in English, Hansel and Gretel.
Breakfast & After school club
Reception – What the ladybird heard
This week we have been reading the stories of ‘what the ladybird heard’ by Julia Donaldson. We are all getting very good at remembering the job of the author and illustrators of stories. This week, we have made ‘messy maps’ thinking about features we might see that we could add Read more
English
Types of noun
This morning Pine have been recalling previous learning about nouns. Their recollection of the different types of noun and being able to give examples was absolutely brilliant! Well done everyone!