Lauren Hazelton

In English, we are looking at the story of Cinderella. We have learnt skills such as using commas in lists, prepositional phrases and have tried to use adventurous vocabulary. Today we wrote our story opening and tried to include these skills. Here is some of our work so far:

This week we have published our writing; a report about Sutton Hoo. We learnt the need for a heading and subheadings and presenting our information clearly. We found our information through watching short clips, reading books and investigating who may have been buried in the boat. Some of our published pieces are below.

This week in RE, we have been learning all about forgiveness and why forgiveness is an important part of being a Christian. We looked at the story of The Lost Son and thought about what lessons it taught to Christians. We also discussed The Lord’s Prayer and why it is important for Christians to follow […]

In maths this half term, both year groups have looked at place value. We identified what each digit represented in a two or three digit number and could partition given numbers into hundreds, tens and ones.

This week and last week we have been learning about the simple past and the simple present tense. We found out that regular verbs add the suffix -ed to make them the simple past tense. Some irregular verbs changed completely when talking about the past, e.g. fight to fought. Usually, the present simple verb doesn’t […]

Today we reported on the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons, explaining who they were and where they came from. We added a picture, caption and headline to our short newspaper report.

This week, the Woodpeckers have been learning the keys on a keyboard, typing up some information about the Anglo-Saxons. They used ctrl a to highlight text, ctrl b to make their writing bold and learnt other ‘shortcuts’ on the keyboard.