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This week in writing we immersed ourselves in our class text ‘Wonder’ and answered a range of VIPERS (vocabulary, inference, prediction, explain, retrieval, summarise) questions showing our understanding of the text and to help us prepare for our new genre of writing.

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In our English learning, we have continued our journalistic writing work.  We began the week by revisiting apostrophes and how we use them for both singular and plural possession. Following this we began drafting our newspaper reports, starting with an opening introduction paragraph that uses the…

A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!

In our English learning, we have continued our journalistic writing work.  We began the week by revisiting apostrophe use and its different uses. We then began drafting our newspaper reports, starting with an opening introduction paragraph that…

What’s a wonderful but snowy week we have had this week! Although it was a bit of a distraction the children have really enjoyed this now and we are still super focused on their learning.

English

this week in English we have worked on retelling the story of lost and found. To begin the week…

It’s been a cold and snowy week but this hasn’t stopped Y4 Manatees from producing some amazing work. Take a look below at some of our super learning that has been taken place this week!

Grammar

In Grammar this week, we have focused on apostrophes. This is a particularly tricky skill…

We have had yet another fabulous week in Jellyfish class this week. We have been working really hard on how we can show our values in different ways especially our value of the half term, inspiration. 

English 

In English this week we have worked towards writing our own non-chronological…

What an exciting week we have had in Nursery! We have been looking at Police Officers in our topic People who help us and we had a shock on Wednesday when we came into our classroom and discovered that it was in a big mess! We were not sure what happened so had to become police detectives and…

English

This week we carried on working on our non- chronological reports about Victorian Britain. We researched what life would be like in Victorian times focusing on their houses, what they would have worn and the food they would have ate. The children were fascinated in the differences…

This week, we have been learning all about minibeasts. We looked at many common minibeasts that can be found in our gardens, and made observations about their features, including how many legs and wings they have. The children have enjoyed exploring minibeasts further in our ‘Minibeast…

What a wonderful but snowy week we have had this week! Although it was a bit of a distraction, the children have really enjoyed the snow and was still super focused on their learning.

English

This week in English we have worked on retelling the story of lost and found. To begin the week we…

In English this week we have continued working on our Paddington re-tell but this time, using our imagination to change the setting in our story. Instead of meeting Paddington in a train station, we decided Mr and Mrs Brown would meet him in an airport. Many of us had visited an airport before so…

In our Writing lessons this week, we have culminated our learning into writing a formal letter. This is addressed to Mr Tushman from the novel Wonder, and the children wrote as the character Jack Will. We used techniques re-visited over the past few lessons, including subjunctive form, perfect…