Powerful predicting!
Year 5 Dolphins used their powerful predicting skills beautifully today to investigate our new English text: Holes by Louis Sachar.
Super Beowulf acting!
Year five Dolphins really enjoyed role playing the events of the epic tale of Beowulf today! We took it in turns to portray Grendel, his mother and the hero himself in battle, searching for treasure and slaying monsters!
Fantastic flower formations!
Year five Dolphin Class had a curiously creative time in their art lesson this week, making £D flowers from a variety of different papers.
Fantastic alternative retell writing!
We have enjoyed using parenthesis to add detail in out English work today!
Coronation fun!
Year 5 Dolphins had a great time celebrating the Coronation of King Charles III today!
Amazing summarising of our new text!
Year 5 Dolphins really enjoyed investigating our new text 'Varjak Paw' by SF Said this week. We used our summarising skills to find the main points of each chapter, before bullet pointing them into a list.
Week beginning 27/03/23
A super final spring term week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning has seen us continue with our investigations of 'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes. We began the week by polishing up out modal verbs understanding, before then working on our planning for an alternative…
Week beginning 21/03/23
A super week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our learning in English this week has seen us investigate narrative poetry. We began the week by sharing and discussing ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes. We read and discussed the epic events, discussing the character’s feelings and emotions. There…
Week beginning 13/03/23
A great week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us investigate how to correctly use homophones, before then applying them independently to our writing. We then moved on to completing our extended writes that were in journalistic style. We wrote amazing…
Week beginning 06/03/23
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…
Week beginning 27/02/23
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning this week, we began by investigating the correct use of hyphens when joining prefixes to a route word beginning with a vowel, for example, re-examine and co-ordinate. we learnt that the meaning of the prefix can affect the…
Week beginning 06/02/23
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…