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05/01/24This Week's Learning
Term 3 Week 1 In English and Communication, we are going to start thinking about creating pieces of instruction writing. We are going to take inspiration from 'The Twits' by Roald Dahl and think up instructions for how to make our teachers really angry! In Phonics, we are focusin...Read Full Story
01/12/23This Week's Learning
Term 2 Week 6 In English and Communication this week, we are focusing on writing a first person diary entry from the point of view of Samuel Pepys. We are going to imagine that he is visiting a Frost Fair for the first time. We will focus on creating simple, compound and complex sentences which r...Read Full Story
26/11/23This Week's Learning
Term 2 Week 5 In English and Communication this week we are going to start planning a new diary entry from the perspective of Samuel Pepys. We will start by creating simple action sentences which retell events. We will then use a range of conjunctions to create compound and complex sentences...Read Full Story
10/11/23Phonics Home Learning
Term 2 Week 3 Here are some resources that will help you with the phonics learning for this week.Read Full Story
10/11/23This Week's Learning
Term 3 Week 3 In English and Communication this week, we are going to take the speech bubbles that we created last week and turn them into comics and sections of narrative. We are going to learn about the rules of speech punctuation and apply them in our own pieces of writing. In Phonics...Read Full Story
05/11/23Home Learning
Term 2 Week 2 For Beech Class’ Home Learning next week, we would like Beech pupils to start getting ready for the Key Stage 1 Nativity. The first step in our preparation is to record some of our lines in advance. We have copied and highlighted the lines that each child is going to pre-re...Read Full Story
05/11/23This Week's Learning
Term 2 Week 2 In English and Communication this week we are going to complete our Samuel Pepy's diary entry. Then we are going to explore how direct speech can be recorded in narrative writing. We will use this understanding to plan out a section of dialogue involving Samuel Pepys and record...Read Full Story
05/11/23Charlie's Trip to London
Charlie was so inspired by our learning on the Great Fire of London that he went on a trip to London to visit some of the important locations relating to the fire. He recorded his trip beautifully in his Home Learning book.Read Full Story
29/10/23Zayn's Show and Tell Sentences
Zayn, we are all so impressed by the way you used your time over the half term holidays to write sentences which show and tell the audience how Samuel Pepys might have been feeling on the night The Great Fire of London started. We love these 007 sentences: These simultaneous ac...Read Full Story
29/10/23Phonics Home Learning
Term 2 Week 1 In Phonics this week we are going to focus on adding 'es' to words ending in 'y'. For example, flies, spies, babies, teddies, carries, hurries and cries. Our grammar focus will be on plural nouns. If you would like to practise these skills more at home, have...Read Full Story