In our English learning this week, we have been looking at the effect personification can have in poetry. After watching a virtual reality video in an underground station during an […] […]
We have been reading one of our favourite books ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We have created a 3D story maps to help us to retell the story. We also […] […]
We have been exploring lots of different books in our class already. We love drawing club and have been going on our own story adventures. We enjoy reading books during […] […]
Our English unit on explanation texts began with an in depth look at ‘Monsters: An Owner’s Guide’ by Jonathan Emmett and Mark Oliver. We loved reading this book! It’s a […] […]
To celebrate World Book Day this year, each class read The Invisible by Tom Percival. The book centres around very important themes, including poverty, gratitude, invisibility, community, empathy and hope. […] […]
We have learned about the journey of a letter. From when it is written by the sender right up until it has been read by the receiver. We have written […] […]
We have loved this book and have written our own instructions on how to wash a variety of different animals. […]
In English, we have enjoyed reading the touching story of the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning. We read two books: Stone Girl, Bone Girl and The Fossil Girl. This unit […] […]
We have been reading this book in our English lessons. Here is some of our lovely writing. We have looked at writing instructions, creating similes and retelling the story in […] […]
In English, we have written leaflets to provide essential information to anyone wanting to explore mountainous terrain. First, we needed to become experts ourselves; we did lots of reading from […] […]
This half term, we have been reading poems from Matt Goodfellow’s book, Bright Bursts of Colour. By looking at his poems, we have been able to explore a wide range […] […]
In English, Haffydown have been reading Robert Munsch’s ‘The Paper Bag Princess’. The story details the heroic adventures of Princess Elizabeth, who attempts to save Prince Ronald from a fearsome […] […]
To celebrate National Poetry Day, we started the day with a special assembly during which some of the adults shared some of their favourite poems. Each class then prepared a […] […]
This week, our learning in English has been focussed around Michael Rosen’s poetry collection called ‘On the Move’. We have been inspired by reading many of the poems which are […] […]
This Thursday is National Poetry Day and the theme this year is Refuge. Today, we talked about migration and some of the reasons why people might migrate. We choose the […] […]
In English, we are looking at Roman Myths. We will be developing our writing skills including experimenting with figurative language, varying sentence structure and how to use a range of […] […]
We have started reading this book in English and are really enjoying it. We have already produced some lovley pieces of work. […]
Today, we used a range of strategies to understand Shakespearian language. Once we were familiar with the extract from Act 1 Scene 3, we prepared a reading of the extract. In this […] […]
We are learning about China this half term. We can use an atlas to locate major cities and rivers. We are looking at bordering countries, seas and oceans. We are […] […]
We throughly enjoyed writing our own non-chronological reports about the imaginary planet, Pandora. These were inspired by the book ‘Planetarium’ by Raman Prinja. We published these in our own class […] […]
This half term, we have read Fly, Eagle, Fly!, a traditional African parable retold by Christopher Gregorowski. As part of our learning, we listened to a speech by Archbishop Desmond […] […]
Our book ‘Traction Man is here’ had a variety of supervillains that Traction Man had to defeat in order to save the day. In this lesson, the children imagined how […] […]
We have spent the last few weeks reading lots of fairy tales. We have been using pictures, puppets, props, story maps and small world figures to retell some familiar fairy […] […]
This half term, we have enjoyed reading The Watertower and Boy in the Tower. We have looked at how the authors create a sense of mystery and build suspense. When […] […]
We have been enjoying lots of Julia Donladson’s books and have had a fantastic time learning about the Gruffalo. We can join in with the familiar refrains and have used […] […]
Recently, we have been read Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey. While this is a picture book that is aimed at younger children, we used it as inspiration for writing our […] […]