Blog by Mr M Blackburn

In our final week before half term we have once again been very active and have made the most of the nice weather outside.

1. We have been practising for Sports Day (first Tuesday back after half term!) with some of the other classes, practising: 100m sprint, hurdles, obstacle courses and…

This week was our first since completing our SATs last week. We began focusing on our Enterprise Project which is a project that hits multiple curriculum areas whist working towards a goal after SATs.

1. We began by discussing our ideas for the Enterprise Project, deciding that we would…

This week we have been completing our SATs tests that we have been revising for the last couple of weeks and working towards throughout the academic year.

1. On Tuesday we had the SPAG tests and the Spelling test. This tested our knowledge of words classes an punctuation.
2. On Wednesday it…

This week in English we have carried on revising key skills. We have revised placing key pieces of punctuation into sentences accurately, such as colons, semi colons and brackets.

In Mathematics we have learnt how to convert fractions into decimals and then answered a range of questions…

In English we have been revising main, subordinate and relative clauses. We also revised relative pronouns for our SATs too.

In Maths we have started a new topic about reflecting and translating 2D shapes across multiple quadrants.

Today, we have been doing our Reading Skills and we have…

We have had lots of fun today for World Book Day, where we have enjoyed the Wizard of Oz as our theme. This morning we had our usual celebration assembly but this was introduced by Scarecrow and Tin Man. In class we created our own Wizard of Oz characters and wrote a short descriptive paragraph…

In English we are reading Jurassic park. We have read a chapter of the book called The Velociraptor where the characters Lex and Tim are hiding in a kitchen from a Velociraptor. We also created a new Reading display about the skills that we had revised.

In Maths we are learning about…

This week in English we have been planning, editing and writing our own Jabberwocky inspired narratives. Once we had planned these, we typed them up on the laptop. We had to choose whichever genre we wanted the narratives to be too.

In Mathematics we have been learning about the Mode,…

In Mathematics this week we have revised the long division method.

In English we have started learning about ‘The Jabberwocky.’ It’s a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll. We began performing the poem in group with intonation and expression and talking about what we thought the nonsense…

In Mathematics, this week we have been learning about the three ordering symbols. We then solved calculations and used the symbols to order the calculations.

In English, we have been learning about how to structure a short narrative. We also focused on the key…

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In English we have finished our letters to Mrs Cole for are complaints about the school to make it better.

In Math we are doing Angels on a straight line and to find the missing angels

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In English we are doing our complaint letter (to Mrs Cole).

In Maths we are doing percentages. We have been learning how to find 1% of the given number.

In Science we're doing evolution and inheritance and learnt how fossils are made.

In Geography we're learning about Death Valley.

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