Blog by Tag: Communication Language and Literacy

8R have been so so busy this week! 
We started off the week by focusing on newspapers and the features of them. Next week we are going to write a short newspaper report all about World War 2 and include some exciting facts which we used our iPads to research.

On our Monday teams call we had a…

This week 9R have taken over the blog. We have learned about WW2, read some of our class read “A medal for Leroy” by Michael Morpurgo. We have used our iPads to learn about Well-being and Social Media and taken part in the 6 star challenge.

Over to 9R

This week is mental health week and…

This week Willow class have loved looking at more animals.. wild ones this time! We have enjoyed learning about all different animals that we might find in a zoo then finding out important facts like what habitats the zoos need to build for them and how they survive. We practiced our spellings,…

8R have had such a busy week this week, doing lots of learning, lots of teams calls and having lots of fun!

We have been looking at our topic of tanks and trenches this week and have explored the wars in lots of different ways.

We started our week by looking at newspapers and the features we…

We watched a PowerPoint about Siddhartha Gautama who lived in a palace but chose to leave and see what was outside the walls. He sat under a tree and thought about things - he became known as Buddha. We all used book creator to make a fact book about Buddhism and then used what we found to…

Another busy, busy week in 9R, we’ve had lots of fun and learnt lots of new things. We’ve listened to a story called One Boy’s War read by Mrs Cobham, a true story about a young boy called Sydney who went to war and never returned. The story is on the school you tube channel for you to watch. We…

What a busy week for Willow class!

This week was world religion week and our religion to explore was Hinduism! We looked at two Hindu celebrations- Divali and Holi. In class we learnt about the story behind Divali, the story  of Rama and Sita. We learnt why it is called the festival of light…

Wow, Willow class have really impressed all their class teachers this term with how well everyone has adapted to changes! 
Children in school have been settling back into lessons and following our timetables, especially enjoying our daily teams calls with friends learning from home! The children…

8R have had a super busy week this week doing lots of amazing work.

We started off the week by doing some super work on time in our maths. We have all been looking at the important times of our day and making sure we can tell the time at these. Everybody worked super hard and have been using…

During this term we have had a story every lunchtime before we go outside. Our first book was The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackey. In this story we learned all about friendship and looking out for each other and knowing it’s ok to be different. We like the pictures in the…

This week Willow class looked at gender stereotypes and thought about what ideas we already had about gender, maybe without realising.  We tied this into looking at how this affects the jobs and hobbies we think people can have due to their gender.

We explored which stereotypes we were affected…

What a busy fun filled week we have had again in 8R. We have been on a few different fact finding missions. At the beginning of the week Miss Brophy set us the challenge of finding out what a continent was and then see if we could name them. We worked well using our iPads to name the seven…