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It has been another busy week in Swan class! This week, we have been learning all about maps. We have previously looked at maps of our local area and discussed some of the features. We have now looked at creating our own maps of places familiar to us, including our classroom and our local…

Well I can not believe we are at the end of Spring Term 1. It has simply flown by. The children have all worked hard showing determination, which has been our value of the half term. They have grown in confidence and independence and shown increased pride in their work. 

In English this week,…

We are ending our half term by looking at statistics, specifically pie charts. We have consolidated our ability to read and interpret pie charts before working with percentages and even drawing our own!

We are writing a third person narrative describing the events of Wonder.

In our Science…

We've had another busy week in Penguins class and we can't wait for the half term break! This week we had an exciting trip out of school around the local area to look for human and physical features. We then used our knowledge to create our own map with a simple key of our surrounding area. This…

Writing

In Writing this week we continued to prepare for our independent write which will be an alternative event retell. On Monday, we focused on using conjunctions in our writing to add detail and expand sentences to provide the reader with more information. It was great to see Y4 now really…

In English this week, the Puffins have developed their cinquain poetry skills by writing a poem about Spring.  At the end of the week, they performed their poems to the rest of the class and it was a delight to watch how their performing skills had improved.

In Maths, we have been learning…

Well I can not believe we are at the end of Spring Term 1. It has simply flown by. The children have all worked hard showing determination, which has been our value of the half term. They have grown in confidence and independence and shown increased pride in their work. 

In English this week,…

This week in Duck class we have been learning about maps! We have previously looked at maps  and how these could help us to look around our local area. We have now started to make our own maps. Firstly we used a template and drew pictures of the different places we have found in our local…

Grammar 

This week in grammar we recapped our knowledge on different word classes. We began by defining the different word classes (nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs), and then went on to identify them in a chapter of our class text. Please see below examples of our fantastic…

A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!

In English this week, we have completed our new character extended writes, then edited and improved them.  We focused on all of our year five skills learnt so far. The new characters were very varied -  we have written about cheetahs, ninjas and…

Take a look below at this weeks blog to see all the fantastic learning that has taken place this week.

On Monday, we didn't have a Grammar lesson as this was our opportunity to edit and revise our independent writes. I was beyond impressed with the standard of writing from Y4 Manatees and…

This week, we started to look at toys and really enjoyed talking about our favourite toys at home! Using our drawing and name writing skills, we created an invitation asking our toys to come into school and on Friday, we brought these toys into school for a picnic! We really enjoyed showing them…