Class 14 have been studying and practicing implementing the features of non-chronological report writing. Our topic for this report is World War One – based upon our text Private Peaceful. Today the class are writing their final draft, bringing together all of the features following their reading and research. Tomorrow Read more…
On Friday, we had our first speaking and listening lesson! This involved considering what made a good listener and a fantastic speaker. We looked at the importance of eye contact and keeping quiet when it’s someone else’s turn. Our topic of discussion was related to our book The BFG. We Read more…
I am so proud of class 8 and the performance they did today they really excelled themselves. Well done you were all so clear. Thank you for all the support you gave them learning their lines.
Yesterday, we did our first Langauage and Communication lesson marking the start of a school focus on improving our speaking and listening skills. The question we were discussing was: To what extend should adults influence the decisions we make? In the boy in the striped pyjamas, Bruno is forced to Read more…
As part of our Linked Learning topic of WW2, we imagined being evacuee children during the war and leaving our families to go to the countryside. We acted out packing our suitcase, going on the train, being chosen by host families and the positive and negative thoughts on this. We Read more…
Class 12 begun a new writing week based around our class text. We have read how Bruno is missing his life in Berlin and writes a letter to his Grandmother. On Monday everyone wrote a first draft letter, this was a ‘cold write’ with no support or planning to show Read more…
Class 14 today carried out research into what it would have been like to be a child during the First World War. This historical research has helped the children to gain a clearer perspective of the surroundings of the main protagonist in our new text in English: Private Peaceful by Read more…
In English we have been looking at all the wonderful vocabulary used in our new text The Polar Express. We especially loved the trains “hissing steam” and “squeaking metal”.
In Year 5 we are starting to write non-chronological reports about the Alps. We followed the school value of cooperation to create a shared write. We wrote the title and introduction altogether and then each team wrote a fantastic paragraph including Alpine houses, animals and avalanches. We then collected all Read more…
As part of our reading week we have been learning about inference. We have been using our own knowledge and clues from the text to infer what is happening. We started the week looking at music videos such as Titanium and a silent video called ‘Dragon Slayer’ and inferred what Read more…