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On Monday, we had an opportunity to edit and revise our independent writes. I was beyond impressed with the standard of writing from Y4 Stingrays. Well done Stingrays! On Tuesday, we were introduced to our next independent write which will be a narrative retell in third person. We…

In English this week, we have bee looking at cinquain poems.  We have planned our cinquain poem about Winter and then become poets and written our own poems, containing several verses.  At the end of the week, we enjoyed acting out our cinquain poems to the rest of the class, using expression and…

What an amazing week we have had in Seal Class this week. The children have been working hard in all areas of their learning and wowing me with their recall of key information learned. 

In English this week, the children have been focusing on writing poetry – specifically acrostic poems. To…

Geography 

This week in Geography we studied the west coast of Wales. We explained how the Green Bridge of Wales was created by strong winds and powerful storms causing cracks between headlands and after forming caves, arches and stacks. Having described the coastal habitats of the west coast…

A super week of learning in Dolphin Class!

In our English lessons this week, we've continued our work relating to 'The wonderful Wizard of Oz' by L. Frank Baum. We used our planning from the previous week, in which we created alternative characters, to draft a new chapter.  We began the week…

This week has certainly gone quickly and yet again we have had a super week in Y4 Manatees! Take a look below at some of our fantastic learning from this week!

In Grammar this week we recapped punctuating fronted adverbials. This was an important lesson as we often use fantastic fronted…

This week has been lots of fun for all of us in Nursery class! We have done lots more learning and fun activities. 
Our role play area has been transformed into a clothes shop and we have had so much fun choosing our outfits and trying them on! This has helped to support our independent skills…

English

In our English lessons we have continued to build our letter writing skills to help us write our persuasive letter to Mr Bumble, the owner of Oliver Twist's work house. In Grammar we looked writing in the  first person, which we did a great job remembering all our personal pronouns. We…

This week, we learnt about people who help us in our community. We spoke about different people and their jobs, including firefighters, police officers and postal workers. We discussed the important roles they play and considered how our community would be affected without them in it.

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We have had a marvellous week in Jellyfish this week and have really shown our value of the half term, determination in multiple ways. 

English 

In our English lessons we have be continuing our journey towards writing a persuasive letter to Mr Bumble at the workhouse! In Grammar on Monday we…

We have practised a number of skills, including expanded noun phrases, to add further detail to our internal monologues. This is inspired by our class text, ‘Wonder’.

We showed our understanding of the four quadrants through a carousel of activities.

In Maths, we have consolidated our…

We have had a lovely calm week in Penguin's class and completed so much learning! We're definitely ready for the weekend after working so hard!

In English we have introduced our new genre - a Cinquain Poem. We have looked at different examples and come up with a success criteria on how to write…