English

In English we are learning how to punctuate and set out speech correctly. We acted out a conversation between Tinkerbell and Wendy from our class novel ‘Peter Pan’ and then wrote up the conversation using inverted commas. We are definitely improving at writing speech.

The librarians are holding a reading club every Wednesday lunchtime this term for anyone interested in reading. You can read your own book, read to a librarian or have a librarian read a book to you. Nearly the whole school signed up to book club so the librarians will be choosing groups each week so everyone has a turn. Thank you librarians!

Year 4, 5 and 6 are studying Peer Pan by J.M. Barrie and were intrigued by Mrs Darling exploring her children’s minds. Using text, they created a representation of the own minds. They are very interesting.

The first Friday of every half term is ‘Ask the Expert’ in Diamond Class. We all brought interesting items in and discussed them practicing our presentation and questioning and answering skills. We voted the adoption of cats as the best ‘Ask the Expert’ item this term as it follows our school values!

Every Wednesday, we learn how to read texts and answer a range of questions about them. We enjoyed working together to analyse the text and then think about how we can use the text to help us answer the questions. 

We wanted to thank Emma for teaching us about farming so we learned how to write thank you letters and then wrote our own. We tried to include all the features of a letter and then decorated them with images of the farm. We hope Emma likes them.

The class enjoyed their ‘share a story’ session so much that they have decided to hold a weekly share a story session. This week they shared their dinosaur stories. Keep checking the website to see what they share next.

Some pupils chose to spend their lunch play reading and sharing their story openers with each other. We were gripped listening to them and can’t wait to hear what happens next.