Year 2 English: Story Sequencing
This week in Year 2 we have been reading the story of Prince Cinders and we have sequenced the main events.
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Year 4 - English: Research
It was the start of our new English unit on Monday and the Year 4s were busy conducting research and collecting information about Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. Their objective was to take keywords from each question and type them into a safe search engine in order to gather relevant information to answer the question. The children also used a range of primary and secondary sources to support their research. The children will be using this information to support their writing of stories based on a historical setting.
Year 3 - English-Classical Poetry: The Spider and Fly
This week, Year 3 writers have started their classical poetry unit, and they are thoroughly enjoying the famous cautionary poem, ‘The Spider and the Fly’. They’ve been actively exploring new vocabulary central to the poem’s setting and theme, including words like parlour (a formal sitting room), pantry (a food storage cupboard), and especially flattering (insincere, sweet-talking praise). Most importantly, they are learning about the poem’s moral lesson: the danger of believing flattering words from someone who has a deceitful or harmful motive.
Year 1: non-chronological reports
I am so proud of all the Year 1 children for writing their non-chronological reports about Emperor Penguins this week. They made sure to include a title, headings as questions, facts, using the conjunction ‘and’ in their sentences, as well as pictures with captions. They worked really hard to remember the facts, capital letters and full stops in their writing. The final reports look brilliant. Well done Year 1
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Year 4 - English: Subordinate Clauses
In Year 4, we started our work on clauses this week. The children learned that clauses contain a subject and verb, and they began differentiating between main and subordinate clauses. In pairs, children wrote a main and a subordinate clause on their whiteboards and formed human sentences. They practised reading the clauses in different orders to see the effect.
Year 4 English - Prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs
As part of our English we have been looking at developing our use of grammar. Today we have focused on prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs. Using our toolkits, the children developed their own sentences which incorporated prepositions, conjunctions and adverbs. The children then uplevelled their sentences by purple polishing and checking for capital letters, use of commas and more interesting vocabulary.
Year 5 - English
Our new topic in English is narrative poetry and we are starting to learn the poem The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes. We analysed its structure and use of figurative language such as metaphors and repetition before performing the poem with our own physical actions. Such movements help the children memorise the lines and help make English lessons fun and engaging.
Year 1 English: Fact hunt
In our English lesson today, we were looking for facts about Emperor Penguins which will help us to write our non-chronological reports over the next two weeks. The children had to find a fact around the room, remember it and come and write it in the correct box in their English books. They all tried really hard and showed our 4B’s whilst moving around the room: be ready, be safe, be kind, be respectful.
Year 4 English - Information Texts
Over the past few weeks in English, we have been building an information text based on The Amazon which links with our current geography unit. This week, we have been using all of the key pieces of information that we have collected and adding these to a grid which includes a page title, headings, subheadings, opening statement, diagrams. Bulletin points and text boxes. We also added in specific grammar content which included determiners including quantifiers and demonstratives, commas for clauses and paragraphs. The end product was super and the children loved sharing their examples with each other and used peer evaluation confidently.
Reception: Muddy Monday
Wow! On Monday the children in Reception blew Mrs Wilkinson's and Mrs Thompson's socks off! They walked over 2km around Jacks Key. The children listened to sounds they could hear, looked at what they could see under a bridge and used their imaginations chanting trip trap and the bear hunt story. The children had lots of fun!
Year 3- History/English-Exploring Ancient Egypt Through Explanation Texts
This week, Year 3 has started a new writing unit on explanation texts. In History, we’ve been learning about the beliefs of the Ancient Egyptians, the process of mummification, and the importance of the River Nile. The writers are now using what they have learned to write their own explanation texts, applying their knowledge of Ancient Egypt to build and develop their English writing skills.
Year 2 English- Using Non-Fiction Texts to Retrieve and Record Facts
Today in English, Year 2 explored non-fiction texts (both online and in book form) to retrieve information about animals from the Savannah. They each chose either a lion, giraffe, or elephant and worked hard to record key facts, ready to use in their very own information pages. We were blown away by their impressive facts- well done Year 2!