In our writing lessons, we have been reading the book ‘Flotsam’ by David Weisner. We explored the front cover, first page of the book and made predictions about the story. We investigated what had washed up on beaches, looking closely at the items with magnifying glasses...
We have been exploring inequality around the world in order to make information posters....
We have had a really interesting time exploring Nigerian art. Last week we created a whole class background and this week we finished it by creating a chicken based on the story ‘Chicken in the kitchen’. We hope you enjoyed seeing our final piece at...
We have been really focussed on learning all about Nigeria. These pictures were taken when we were working as teams to research about Nigerian culture to create our information posters....
We wrote, filmed and edited a news report on our chosen famous person with Jamaican heritage. We had loads of fun being writers and film makers for the last two weeks and we learnt so many digital skills....
We have been exploring what diversity means. We created acrostic poems to represent what diversity means to us and celebrate what makes us unique....
We went on our first class trip to the post box! We wrote a wonderful letter to LuLu's mummy highlighting all the reasons we thought LuLu was ready to get a real cat. Then we added her address and a stamp before heading out to...
We have been learning all about the life of Mary Seacole! We have learnt about the incredible sacrifice she made and how her work has impacted modern medicine. We are going to be writing a character description about her so have been using our acting...
In writing, we immersed ourselves in the inspirational story about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott. This week, we have discussed and explored the story and put ourselves into the perspective of the outraged people of Montgomery, Alabama in the 1950s. We used hot-seating to...
In our writing lessons we have been learning about using the perfect present tense. Everyone had to write sentences using the perfect present tense, some of them were true and some false! In teams we worked together to figure out which ones were true and...