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This morning we spent some time planting bulbs around the school environment. The children learnt about the parts of a bulb and how to plant a bulb. They took it in turns to dig the mud before each planting a bulb and covering it over. We then discussed when we can expect to see the bulbs grow…

In our Writing lessons this week, we have started a new genre of writing called ‘Discursive Writing’. In one of our lessons we annotated a WAGOLL using our iPads to identify different features of the genre and Y6 produced some brilliantly annotated WAGOLLs! Keep up the good work…

This week in DT, Y6 have started a brand new topic entitled ‘Global Food’. This week, we explored and researched different foods from around the globe considering how different foods are prepared and eaten. We really enjoyed this lesson and Y6 are really looking forward to improving their cooking…

Today in book talk we recapped the features of a book to ensure the children are fully secure with this. We discussed the title, author, illustrator, spine and blurb. The children could tell me why these features are needed and where they are located on a book.

We have begun to use part whole models. We have used cubes to make the parts and then counted them altogether to write the whole. Some children turned their part whole model on its side or even upside down but still used the part whole model correctly! 

Today the children used their knowledge of circles and triangles to hunt for shapes in the outdoor area. They quickly spotted lots of circles but had to search harder to spot the triangles. We are shape detectives in reception!

Today we began our topic of celebrations. We looked at what some different types of celebrations are and the children spent time discussing the celebrations they took part in. We then identified which pictures taken at various celebrations fit with the ones they celebrate eg if they celebrate…

We have begun Gymnastics this half term and we have remembered a lot of the shapes that we made with our bodies from Reception. The children could show me a tuck, pike, straddle and star shape. We also recapped some more of the shapes that we may have forgotten about and used them in a sequence.

We have used capital letters, finger spaces and full stops to correctly punctuate a sentence based on the speech of our characters. 

This week we have been learning all about Autumn. We took part in our first Forest School session with Autumn activities. 
We enjoyed leaf threading, mud painting, collaging with natural materials and pumpkin cutting.

We talked about our sea sea and used them for hands on…

We have been really impressed this week with the amount of effort Year 5 have put into their writing! Keep up the hard work!

This week in History, we have moved onto our new topic of Anglo Saxons, year 5 did really well using Showbie to showcase their learning.