In our Writing lessons, we have been learning about writing in the past tense. We played a game of dominoes where we had to match the past tense of the verb to the present tense. We then used them to write our own sentences with...
In Year 4, we have been learning how to describe a setting. We read the book ‘A River’ by Marc Martin and mind mapped nouns and adjectives to help us describe the different settings....
We have been taking part in our Read Write Inc sessions and learning new sounds! We have met Fred, a special frog that only speaks in sounds and we have been helping him put them together to make words! We have learnt special rhymes to...
In Nursery, based on our core text "Lulu gets a cat", we discussed about our pets and how to take care of them. We also pretended to be vets and wrote "prescriptions" for the animals depending on the different symptoms they presented....
In Writing we will be learning to write traditional tales. Our writing has been based on Anansi The Spider. Our focus was on time connectives and commas. We also used different materials to portray Anansi in a drawing....
Year 1 learnt about Bessie Coleman. They created sky artwork using a range of collage materials. They explained why Bessie was an inspiration for being the first black female pilot....
Year 4 explored the life of Maya Angelou. They explored her poetry and wrote biographies detailing her life and achievements. They also created beautiful night sky artworks....
Year 5 explored the life of campaigner Olive Morris and generated biographies detailing her life achievements and why she was such an inspirational Black woman. They also generated ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign posters....
In Year 6, even though we have been incredibly busy going swimming every day, we have still found plenty of time for learning. In our writing lessons, we have been writing biographies for our cultural evening displays. We have been writing about inspirational black, British...
In Nursery, as part of our learning through our core text “So Much”, we explored family celebrations and birthday parties. We wrote party invitations and party shopping lists! We then post them in our special letter box!...