Debating in Year 6
Year 6 have taken part in a debate to consider whether animals should be used in the war.
Amazing alternative event
This week Year 4 have written an alternative event for their independent write. It has been lovely to see today the children self assessing and editing their own writing to improve, this is a skill we have been focussing on recently. Well done Year 4!
Children in Need
Today we celebrated Children in Need. We discussed why we are celebrating and how different people celebrate.
The children loved coming to school in yellow, spotty clothes! We loved creating masks, cutting, tracing and taking part in Pudsey activities!
Writing initial sounds and CVC words!
We used our phonics to identify the initial sound in different words, before writing the corresponding grapheme. Some of us challenged ourselves to write CVC words by segmenting. We are becoming more confident when applying our phonics knowledge to spell!
War Horse!
This week, Y6 have started their brand new text entitled ‘War Horse’. For our first lesson, we read the first three Chapters and looked more closely at the main character of Joey, considering his thoughts, feelings and actions. Y6 are really enjoying this text so far and we are really looking…
Fascinating facts!
Today we researched lots of wonderful facts about hedgehogs to help us with our non chronological report. We focused on their appearance, diet and habitat. We even found some fascinating wow facts too.
Features of non chronological reports
Today we worked together to identify the features of a non-chronological report. We also identified the Year 2 skills to be included.
Active or passive voice
Year 6 have learnt about active and passive voice, and the skill of being able to recognise the object, verb and subject in a sentence.
Wonderful writing!
This week Year 4 have started their new text 'Charlotte's Web'. We have had some insightful discussions when discussing the book, and have created role on the walls for our main characters to understand their thoughts, feelings and emotions. Towards the end of the week, we acted out some of our…
Listen to your conscience
Year 6 showed their understanding of Isabella’s thoughts as she breaks a promise made to her best friend, inspired by our class text ‘The Girl of Ink and Stars’.
Marvellous Modal Verbs!
In Grammar this week, Y6 have learnt all about modal verbs and how they can be used in different ways. We explored how modal verbs can be used to indicate possibility, ability, permission or obligation. Y6 did amazing in this lesson and even completed some tricky SATS questions all about modal…
Exciting Emotions
Today we learned about different emotions in our story. We learned lots of new vocabulary and come up with actions and facial expressions to explain their meaning. We then thought about how Hansel and Gretel would feel at the different parts in our story ready for our re-tell next week!