Author: Carly Appleton

Using wall paper to write down our ideas allowed us to gather an abundance of words and phrases to use in our setting descriptions. We were able to challenge one another and extend each others learning.

Finding links between photos of different settings and key words and links between short passages helped us to recognise some of the key features of a setting description. This week we will be writing our own setting description of our villain’s lair and this activity helped to spark our imaginations and learn some new vocabulary.

Last week, we brought comprehension to life by using plasticine to model what we could visualise. We found this technique very useful when we were then asked the next day to recall sentences and phrases from the passage – The Cave.

This week, the Adventurous Explorers went for a walk in our local area. We were model citizens and cleaned up the litter we passed – there was a lot of it!

The children carried out various experiments based on the theory of natural selection. Only the strongest survived and thrived. Unfortunately, the others faced extinction!

On Wednesday afternoon, despite the cold, we took our maths lesson outside and had a lot of fun racing for problems to solve and drawing ‘spiders’ on the playground to show percentages of a number and equivalent values.

We all had a wonderful time in London this week. The children thoroughly enjoyed visiting the photography exhibition and exploring the museum. Using the tube and walking through some of the busy streets of London, was a new experience for many of them but they were all extremely well behaved and a real credit to our school and their families.

This week, we teamed up with Mr Stevens and his Forest School group. We looked at a tribe who live in Indonesia. They build their huts above ground level to protect them from floods and dangerous animals. We then went outside and tried to build our own versions. We got very muddy, but we had a lot of fun!

This week we have enjoyed our active maths lessons both inside the classroom and in the hall. The children took the idea of challenging each other very seriously creating some tricky questions for each other in their own version of the game.

This week we have started our Science work on adaptation and evolution. We looked at using a classification key and making up our own criteria.