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27 June 2023

Finding the skills

Today we have begun our new writing journey to create a discursive argument, to begin we have spent the lesson looking at the structure of a discursive argument and how our Y5 skills can be used in one.

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23 June 2023

Wonderful Writing

This week in Writing we have been focussing on understanding how to punctuate dialogue correctly. This is something Stingrays at the beginning of the week really struggled with. We are very proud of how the children have shown such determination and resilience over the week; show casing just how…

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23 June 2023

Hello Lighthouse - Diary writing

We have been writing diaries in Year 1 this week, using the text Hello Lighthouse. We focused on using last tense and first person, as well as including all the features  of a diary entry. Today we planned a diary entry for our independent write next week. The children came up with lots of amazing…

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23 June 2023

Determined Writers!

This week, Y4 have worked hard in their writing lessons to prepare for their next independent write which will be a narrative. They have shown super determination with skills including expanded noun phrases, prepositional phrases, conjunctions and dialogue! Keep up the determination Y4! 

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21 June 2023

Writing AL - Handa’s Surprise

We have loved learning about different foods this week and we have been focusing on the fruits in Handa’s Surprise. The children enjoyed using their senses to explore the fruit and discussing then as a class. 
 

We have then chose our favourite fruit and wrote about it in our books. 
 

In…

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16 June 2023

Celebrating Monarchs

This week in History we have been  answering the question “How do we celebrate monarchs?”. In doing so we learnt all about the jubilee and how this celebrates the monarchs major milestones. We also  found out that Kings and Queens have two birthdays. During the summer birthday celebration they…

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16 June 2023

Tricky tense

Year 1 have worked on writing in the past tense this week! They learnt that when writing in the past tense we are writing about something that has already happened. at first they found this a little tricky to know how tenses can be changed but eventually they blew us away with their writing.

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15 June 2023

Relative Clauses

In Grammar this week, Y4 learnt all about relative clauses! This is a particularly tricky part of Grammar, however Y4 showed a great deal of enthusiasm in this lesson, with some children even including some relative clauses in their independent writes later in the week! Super work Y4!  

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15 June 2023

Greta and the Giants

We absolutely loved role playing our new story Greta and the Giants. We completed freeze frames from different parts in the story to make sure we knew the sequence before writing a retell. 

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14 June 2023

Dazzling DADWAVERS!

Year 5 Dolphin class worked really hard in English this morning, planning their setting descriptions of Camp Green Lake (the setting of the book HOLES by Louis Sachar) using the DADWAVERS format.  They used each sense to formulate a specific structure, that will really aid in their independent…

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13 June 2023

Writing about Handa's Surprise

Today, we wrote sentences to describe what Handa is doing in the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We applied our Phase 3/4 phonics knowledge to spell, and are becoming much more confident with our use of finger spaces between words. We have also been practising the skills of using a capital letter and…

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12 June 2023

Marvellous magpies!

Year 5 Dolphins have worked really hard today, in sweltering heat, as magpies, extracting setting description features independently. We are clearly nearly year six ready! 

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