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12 May 2023

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…

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Year 5 have been working hard on their alternative retells of Varjak Paw today!
12 May 2023

Fantastic alternative retell writing!

We have enjoyed using parenthesis to add detail in out English work today!

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10 May 2023

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.

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18 April 2023

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!

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6 April 2023

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…

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20 March 2023

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…

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13 March 2023

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…

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6 March 2023

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…

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13 February 2023

Week beginning 13/02/23

English this week saw us completing our Independent Write using our alternative characters that we made last week. The stories that the children created were very fun to read and it is obvious how our imagination has come to light in this piece of work. This won't be the end of our characters…

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23 January 2023

Week beginning 23/01/23

Another busy week in Narwhals! It's great to see how many of the children have increased their attendance this half term and I'm also very proud of how much fun they're having with their swimming lessons. This week even the instructors commented on how great their listening skills were and how…

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16 January 2023

Week beginning 16/01/23

In maths this week we have moved onto converting units of measurement. This saw us looking at converting grams to kilograms, millimetres to metres, metres to kilometres and litres to millilitres. After spending so long on decimals it was nice to move onto another area of learning but we actually…

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9 January 2023

Week beginning 09/01/23

Another week done in Narwhals and our first full week of Spring 1. The children have been getting back into the full swing of things and many are excited for the weeks to come, especially with starting swimming next week.

In English we have begun to prepare for our next independent write which…

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