Week beginning 28/11/22
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our morning sessions have been mostly taken up with our end of term assessments this week. These assessments help us to identify gaps in learning, which we can then use to plan for the next term's learning.
We did however, manage to squeeze in…
Week beginning 21/11/22
A marvellous week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us finish one writing genre and begin another. We started the week by completing our extended writes in relation to our third person narrative retell. We investigated how to use commas to clarify meaning,…
Week beginning 14/11/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class this week!
Our English learning this week has has seen us continue with our work relating to Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian. We began the week by looking at how we could use exclamation marks for effect within our work, before then moving…
Week beginning 7/11/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us investigate our new writing genre, third person narrative recount. We began the week looking at our punctuation skills, in relation to plural possessive apostrophes, before then moving into magpieing our…
Week beginning 31/10/22
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning, we have begun a new text, 'Goodnight Mister Tom' by Michelle Magorian. We began the week by discussing the front and back covers of the book, making predictions based on evidence we could see - for example, we could see…
Week beginning 17/10/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has seen us complete our alternative recounts of Cinderayla. We began the week by working on our editing skills, learning how to correctly improve our work using purple pens. This lesson helped us, as we were then…
Week beginning 10/10/22
A brilliant week of learning in Dolphin Class!
Our English learning this week has been focused around a new writing genre, first person alternative recount. We began reading a new story within our text called Cinderayla. We discovered that it was loosely based on the traditional fairy story of…
Week beginning 03/10/22
An amazing week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning this week, we've continued our work relating to our third person re-tell. We began the week looking at the correct use of the determiners 'a' and 'an'. We re-visited our year three learning - reminding ourselves of the…
Week beginning 26/09/22
What a fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In English this week, we have begun a new writing genre, third person re-tell. We began the week by looking at a magpie text, investigating the expected writing features, such as past tense and third person pro nouns (he/she etc). We then…
Week beginning 19/09/22
A fantastic week of learning in Dolphin Class!
In our English learning this week, we've continued our work relating to 'Rumaysa', completing our drafting process, before moving on to our extended writes. We've discussed the use of adverbials and fronted adverbials, before applying this skill.…
Week beginning 12/09/22
Hello and welcome to the first blog post of this academic year for Dolphin Class!
In our first full week of the term, we have been very busy engaging in lots of new learning and settling into the expected routines of upper key stage two.
Our English learning this week has seen us begin to…