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!
Year 2 Supertato
In English we have been creating character descriptions about Evil Pea!
Year 2 thought of some amazing adjectives and synonyms. They used them to create expanded noun phrases.
Active and Passive Voice
Class Three learned how to accurately use the active and passive voice in preparation for writing their newspaper reports. They explored the position of subjects and verbs within sentences and learned when and why an author may select to use the passive voice. The children wrote their own active…