Planning for writing
Year 6 have been planning a formal letter. Sharks will be writing as Ayesha, the protagonist from our class text 'Oranges in No-Man's Land', attempting to persuade Dr Leila to provide medicine for her sick Grandma. The children have considered the main plot and shown their understanding in…
Deforestation Debate
We enjoyed using the opinion starters to argue why deforestation is a bad idea. We were very impressed with how many facts we remembered from last week!
Eid Food Tasting
Thank you so much for you kind donations of delicious food. The children were SO excited to try and it was a big thumbs up from us!
Marvellous maths
This week in Maths, the children were introduced to a new skill to help them when dividing 2, 3 and 4 digit numbers. This skill was short division using the bus stop method. At first the children found this very tricky but by the end of the week the children have become more confident, some…
Exciting Eid
On Friday afternoon, we tried some wonderful traditional Eid food prepared for us by our very generous parents and celebrated Eid by taking part in a fantastic activity, drawing our own Mehndi intricate patterns!
Eid Mubarak!
We have had a lovely time celebrating Eid this afternoon. Miss Nisa bought in a fabulous cake for us to share and organised food and drinks. Thankyou to our parents who also contributed to the party.
We have also made Eid cards and listened to a very informative assembly about why Muslims…
Eid celebrations
Sharks enjoyed sampling authentic food and creating cards to celebrate Eid. Eid Mubarak!
Exciting Eid assembly!
Waterside was lucky enough to welcome a very special visitor today for a special assembly all about Eid. The pupils were very respectful and learnt lots of interesting facts.
Child Labour Argument
Today we have begun writing our opening drafts for a discursive argument on whether child labour should be allowed, this links in with our class text of Holes in which the children are forced to work everyday! Our main focus today is relative clauses but it’s fantastic to see the children working…
Telling the time
This week in maths, we have been recapping how to tell the time. We used clocks to show different times and then solved time word problems in pairs. Telling the time is an important life skill and any practice at home would be beneficial. We have been asking children to look at the clock and tell…
Exploring Parts of the Plant
Jellyfish and turtles explored our garden spotting key parts of the plants.
Celebrating Eid!
This afternoon we completed learning all about Eid and how Muslims celebrate. We then created our own Eid cards for our family and friends, tasted authentic foods and completed freeze frames.