We are back at school and enjoying the routine as well as the learning. The pupils have been shown how to use accelerated reader which they can access from home. This is designed to improve their reading so please encourage them to access it.
Category : UKS2
We have been on a feature hunt this morning. We have picked apart the features of a newspaper report and matched them up to examples to support with our fish bone lesson. We then created our own models for the features to display in our classroom to help us with our writing!
These superstars have been reading around the text to check for meaning. They have been checking their answers with a dictionary. Then, to challenge themselves even further they’ve been checking for synonyms of the word to widen their vocabulary! We can’t wait to add our new words to our word wall!
Year 5 have had a great hook week. We have made our classrooms immersive and had a giggle when we completed a portraitof a friend as a WW2 soldier. The comments were fab – my ears aren’t that big! My head’s too small! My eyes are wonky! It was great to see the pupils enjoying themselves, working together and having fun.
In Maths this week, Year 6 have been working hard on their reasoning skills. A shout out goes to Shang for producing this beautiful work. She’s used diagrams and clear explanations to prove possibilities. Well done, Shang. 
6B really are working their socks off! I am so impressed with how much they are challenging themselves to achieve gold/green in their learning. Maths has been tricky this week but we have persevered and shown great resilience and we’ve smashed it! Well done superstars!
6H have been working hard to establish some new learning protocols within their daily routine this week. These include: silent conversations; think, pair, share; and popcorn. Why don’t you ask your child what these are and how they impact upon their learning?
We’ve also been thinking carefully about the behaviours we display and how to be a great crew member by discussing what working hard, getting smart and being kind both look and sound like.
Keep going 6H – you’re doing yourselves proud.
This superstar has blown me away in maths today. His reasoning has been spot on and he has been a fantastic learning coach to his peers! Well done for working hard Amez! This lesson you have definitely demonstrated a 4 in your HOWLs!
Today 6B have been super summarisers in their English lessons. We read a fantastic article all about Colonel Tom Moore. We then discussed it before summarising it in our collaborative groups. I am so impressed with how well the children worked and they have been working really hard at reading around the text to check for meaning when they face unfamiliar words, then checking their answers with a dictionary. Keep up the hard work superstars!
Today in crew, 6B unpicked our howls and we focussed on what a 4 looks like. We don’t just want to settle with a 3! We participated in a silent discussion and then feedback and thoughts and ideas. We looked at working hard, being kind and getting smart. We have now created a WAGOLL bank of scenarios and examples to display in our classroom to help to remind us what we can do to achieve all 4’s! We can do it 6B!