Jack and the Mermaid Lagoon
This week we have planned to write an alternative version of Jack and the Beanstalk! The children thought of some great ideas. We have changed the Giant to a Mermaid and instead of a beanstalk, Jack will dive into a crystal, clear lagoon to the Mermaid’s castle!
Character Roleplay!
This week we have taken part in some role play to explore our characters (in our new text 'The Firework Maker's Daughter) thoughts, feelings and emotions!
Tricky punctuation!
As Y6 prepare for their SATs, we have recapped some tricky pieces of punctuation. We have focused on semi-colons, colons, dashes and hyphens. I was really impressed with how well Y6 have developed their understanding of these tricky pieces of punctuation and how they have applied their knowledge…
Perfect Planning!
Today we have planned our first person diary entry ready for when we complete our independent writes next week. We ensured we included the correct Year 5 standards in our plan to really help us when we are writing next week!
The Firework Maker's Daughter!
This week in writing Year 4 have started reading their brand new text for this term' The Firework Maker's Daughter'. We have created some role on the walls to begin to understand different characters thoughts, feelings and emotions.
Wicked!
On Wednesday, our Year 5 classes travelled to London to watch Wicked. The performance was incredible and we throughly enjoyed the experience. We were so proud of all the children and a member of the public commented on how well behaved they were. Well done everyone!
Really tricky relative clauses!
In Grammar this week, we have started to look at a going deeper year 4 skill of using relative clauses to add extra detail into our writing. We will continue to look at this skill next week!
Our incredible independent writes
This week in writing we have written our independent write, it was lovely to see how focussed and determined the children were when writing independently. We look forward to reading these writes! Well done year 4!
Junior Reporters
Today the children have used what they saw in Wicked to create some quotes for their next piece of writing, they have focused on using both direct and reported speech and learnt how these differ in terms of the tense and pronouns used as well as the punctuation. They’ve come up with some brilliant…
Identifying word classes
This week in Grammar we have focussed on identifying the different types of word classes. We enjoyed identifying these in our independent writes using our IPADS!
Making our Characters come alive!
Carrying on with our work from last week, this week Y5 have done a range of role play activities to make their characters come alive. This helped the children really understand the characters they are going to be writing about in ways such as how they talk, how they interact with others and how…
Persuasive Devices
Today we looked at a range of persuasive techniques in letters. We learned what they were and then found examples to help us in our writing this week.