Library Bus
Our first visit of the year to the Library Bus!
We can change our books every two weeks and had great fun choosing today.
Rock up and Read
Reading for pleasure and sharing books is such an important part of our learning journey. It was fantastic to have so many parents join us for our first session of Rock up and Read of the year. Thank you!
The Sound Collector poetry
Today a thief came to Mary Howard to steal all our sounds!
We created our own poems using lots of sound descriptions. Next week we will put our ideas together to create and perform a whole class poem!
Vocabulary in Context
In English, Class Three began reading their new text, ‘On the Origin of Species’. The children used their dictionary skills to search for the correct definition for the context in question before using their new words to compose sentences and offering synonyms that share the same meaning.…
The Shadow Cage
Class Three began reading their new text, The Shadow Cage. The children made predictions about the text using clues from the front cover. We then used paired reading and explored the use of question sentences (our SPAG focus) as a tool to create suspense within a narrative, within several short…
Wanted: The Highwayman!
In English this week, Class Three had lots of fun writing character descriptions of the Highwayman in the form of a wanted poster! The children’s SPAG focus this week has been adverbial phrases, we planned and wrote a range of sentences using adverbials in different positions. The children then…
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!
