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Puffins were excited to listen to the first chapter of our new story which is our writing focus for this half-term.   We encountered Mildred, Maud and Miss Hardbroom.   We’re looking forward to finding out what really happens at Miss Cackle’s Academy for Witches.

In our English lessons this week, we have been planning and then completing our independent write - a letter from Paddington to Aunt Lucy, telling her all about our exciting adventures in London.  We have been focusing on using the correct punctuation and a range of sentence types within our…

This week in our English lessons, we have completed our independent write of an alternative setting in our first chapter of Paddington.  We then moved to looking at informal features of a letter and began to plan our letter to Aunt Lucy.  We used our prior knowledge of London to describe places…

In English lessons this week, we have been using conjunctions to extend our sentences and looking at alternative vocabulary to use to write an alternative setting to our story.  We have discussed various nouns, adjectives and adverbs to describe our new setting - at an airport, instead of at a…

This week in English, we have started to explore our new text ‘Paddington.’  The children predicted that it is a fiction text and were able to explain why. We focused on the first chapter of the story and are we are exploring vocabulary to use in an alternative setting.  

A highlight of the…

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…

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…

Before the children write their diary entry, they have practised using adverbs to describe a verb for the first English lesson of the week. After this, the children have independently wrote the diary entry from Isabel’s perspective using all of the writing skills that they have previously…

This week the children have planned to write a diary entry from Isabel’s perspective. We have previously looked at examples of diary entries and the features that they include so I that the children can plan these features within their own. For the rest of the week the children have practised…

This week we have seen snow! Thank you for everyone's patience during the snowfall, whether you tackled coming into School or completing home learning that day, we are proud of all the hard work and dedication. 

In English this week we have completed our first independent write for Spring Term!…

It's our first full week back after the Winter break and although the children are a little tired, they have settled well into the routines. This half term we are focusing on our School Value - Determination. The children have definitely come to school ready to demonstrate this value as we delve…

Happy New Year! It's now 2023 and we are back ready to learn! The children have settled quickly back into their routine and have enjoyed the first 3 days back.

In English, we have introduced the children to their new class text for the half term: The Invisible by Tom Percival. We have…