This week we started our new reading practice book ‘The Copy’ written by Paul Jennings in his book ‘Unpredictable Tales’. For our first lesson we looked at the picture above and wrote specific questions we had about it. It was nice hear the children making connections, talking about their likes and dislikes and also making clear inferences about the book. Next week we start reading through the story, and will continue to make and discuss our ‘Thinking, looking and clue’ questions.
I hope you all have a wonderful weekend,
Mrs Croucher
This week has seen us take part in many more experience based lessons, and seen us push ourselves to do even better in our work. I have been super impressed with the resilience and growth mindset shown this week, especially in our maths and literacy lessons. Within Literacy, we have looked at using dialogue to show how a character might be feeling and to also convey what characteristics they may have. The children have had to use their inference skills to thoroughly complete this learning intension.
Maths this week has seen us tackle more fractions! However, using their positive mindsets ...
Wow, what a wonderful day we had on Thursday celebrating ‘World Book Day.’ I was so impressed with the costumes that the children wore, so thank you so much all your help with creating such masterpieces. Your hard work defiantly doesn’t go unnoticed. We started of our day with a visit to nursery to engage with early reading, it was wonderful to see the children work and listen to the nursery children with such enthusiasm.
Next we took part in the BBC live reading session, this helped the children to consolidate their understanding on the term ‘genre’ before creating and ...
Within our PSHE and Music lessons this week we have been lucky enough to welcome ‘Retune’ into our classroom. Through live performance, open discussion and pupil participation, Retune’s wellbeing workshops demonstrate the importance of using creative outlets such as music, art, drama, dance and writing to maintain wellbeing and build emotional resilience. Retune teaches young people how to unlock their imaginations, inspiring them to pursue their passions and achieve mental harmony in the process. Sometimes we all feel out of tune, and small adjustments can take us back to where we need to be.
SCALES is a system that uses six ...
This week we have been very busy with out latest art project focussing on our ‘observational drawing’ skills and specifically looking at the skill of ‘lines’. The children specifically enjoyed learning about ‘continuous lines’ which was a main feature of ‘Pablo Picasso’ and ‘Alexander Calder’s’ work. The children had to use wire to bend it into the shapes of facial features, and then place them on coloured card to make an outline of face. It was great to see the children challenge themselves with their learning even when they found it challenging to manipulate the wiring.
This week we have ...
