Balanced Arguments!
This week, Class Three finished their balanced argument in English! The children edited and improved their writing to ensure a consistent, formal tone was used throughout their work. The children then took great pride in publishing their final pieces ready to be displayed in our beautiful…
The impact of climate change on population
Class Three learned how climate change can impact population. The children considered what we can do to help our Earth and created posters to present their ideas!
Oracy in English
In English this week, Class Three have started their new unit of learning in which they will construct their own balanced arguments. After retrieving arguments for and against the question, ‘should homework be banned?’, Class Three created word banks to support their structuring of an…
Class Two: Window
As we begin to elicit courageous advocacy in English, the children used their oracy, team bonding and inference skills to correctly sequence the first half of Window by Jeannie Baker. As a team, they explained how and why they selected this order and made predictions based their knowledge…
Big Cats
In English Year 2 have been writing non-chronological reports about leopards and tigers. There were lots of features to include! Reception created captions about tigers using their amazing phonics skills for spelling! Well done Class 1!
Class Two: Portal Drama
This week Class Two designed their own portal in preparation for the creation of their own portal story! Before we began to plan our writing, we role played how we might feel entering this new world!
Features of a non-chronological report
We have been identifying features of non-chronological reports so that we can create our own about lions, tigers and leopards!
World Book Day
We celebrated World Book Day in style with lots of amazing costumes! Parents joined us too for Rock up and Read!
Super synonyms!
In English we have been looking at a variety of emotion words for characters in our story “The day the crayons quit.” We used a thesaurus to find synonyms to include in our final letters to Duncan.
Retrieval in English
Class Three began their new book in English this week, which is a non-fiction text. The children developed their retrieval skills by locating facts and then constructed their own sentences, using previously taught skills. Some children even incorporated our word of the week -…
Retrieving Facts from Non-Fiction
In English, Class Three began their new book, which is a non-fiction text. We developed our retrieval skills in reading and constructed our own sentences, using techniques previously taught. Excellent work at improving the quality of our writing, some children even incorporated our word of…
Reception phonics stars
Reception are working really hard in phonics! They can now read and spell words with some Phase 3 digraphs and trigraphs!