Looking at common denominators to subtract fractions
As part of our work on fractions we looked at a misconception we had around subtracting fractions, some of us needed to continue working on finding equivalent fractions to subtract but others needed to expand their learning by looking at how to find the common denominator for fractions that…
What was the story of Beowulf?
At the start of our week we spent some time listening to the story of Beowulf and how he killed the monster Grendel by ripping his arm off! The monster was killing the Danes in their mead hall and Beowulf traveled to them from Geatland in his longship to help them! We’ve been told the story isn’t…
Reading a new text in Narwhals Class
In Reading Skills, we have started a new text called The Wild Swans, to begin our learning we have looked at new and exciting vocabulary that we didn’t know all the meanings of, using our resources we researched these words to clarify their meaning so we can better understand the text - Written by…
Heave!!!!
Acting out rowing the Norse longship that would allow the Norse people to travel across the sea, through the fjords and down rivers. Lots of tiring work to the sound of “Heave!”
Learning about Jane Goodall
Today in Science we have learned about Jane Goodall, whose an animal scientist called a conservationist. Her work with chimpanzees has helped us learn many new things about chimpanzees such as the fact they eat meat and use tools. She discovered chimpanzees behaviour is similar to humans and had…
Fantastic alternative retell writing!
We have enjoyed using parenthesis to add detail in out English work today!
Year 5 Narwhals Improper Fractions
Today the children in Year 5 have work very hard to convert Improper Fractions into Mixed Numbers, we linked this to our prior learning non equivalent fractions and used this skill to answer a variety of problem solving and reasoning questions.
Y5 Narwhals - Looking at vocabulary in our reading text
Y5 Narwhals hit the ground running on their first day back with some new vocabulary from their reading text!
Week Beginning: 27/02/23
In our English learning this week, we began by learning the correct way to use of hyphens when joining prefixes to a route word beginning with a vowel, for example, re-examine and co-ordinate.
We then moved onto our new writing genre, journalistic writing. We investigated the expected features…
Week Beginning: 20/03/23
Our learning in English this week has seen us looking at 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 were some mature themes and behaviours discussed…
Week Beginning: 13/03/23
First of all, a massive well done to one of our pupils for hitting 1000 subscribers on their family Youtube channel! An amazing achievement that I'm sure will be the first of many to come and I can't wait to see what comes next!
Our English learning this week saw us completing our extended…
Week Beginning: 06/03/23
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…