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English Chatter

31-10-2023
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Year 1 have had a problem with magic spiders…

Year 1 have had a problem with magic spiders. We wrote a class set of instructions – How to Catch a Spider. Last night we set a trap, it didn’t work! Today will write our own instructions to try catch the pesky spiders! #stfinbarsenglish

 

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31-10-2023
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This week, Year 1 have been using the prefix un- to change the meaning of words…

This week, Year 1 have been using the prefix un- to change the meaning of words. This has been the focus for our sentence accuracy, the children have done a great job! #stfinbarsenglish @LiteracyCounts1 @StFinbarsSch @JanJconley

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31-10-2023
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Today we continued to develop our vocabulary…

Today we continued to develop our vocabulary by using a thesaurus to find synonyms

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31-10-2023
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We’re working so hard to develop our vocabulary knowledge ?

We’re working so hard to develop our vocabulary knowledge ? today we have used dictionaries to discover the meaning of words

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31-10-2023
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Spending time reading our favourite poems!

Over the last couple of days we have been enjoying our poetry and spending time reading our favourite poems! #nationalpoetryday #nationalliteracytrust

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26-02-2025
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Poppy class has a great PE class today.

Year 2 were learning to listen to instructions

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26-02-2025
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Little Red

Today, Sunflower class found some interesting items in our classroom. Inside there was a new book, Little Red. We looked at the first page illustrations and discussed it, asking questions and making predictions. We then acted out how Little Red would have felt walking through the woods alone.

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27-02-2025
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Shackleton Drama

Today, we brought some of the images of Shackleton Journey to life through conscience alley and freeze frames.

We used illustrations from our class reader Shackleton Journey written by William Grill. We had a lot of fun adding our own conversations, thoughts and ideas to these images.

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06-03-2025
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World Book Day

Today we celebrate World Book Day and our love of books 📚

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26-04-2025
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No pen day in Rose Class

Year 6 loved their No pen day experience, with lots of practical and computer based activities. From creating our plans for English on our chrome books to using multi-link cubes in maths to explore volume. It is to be continued after SATs.

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04-06-2025
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Fun Phonics

Year 1 have really enjoyed practising reading some alien words this week by playing a really cool game!

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25-09-2025
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Reading milkshakes in Year 6

Year 6 have been challenged with reading a certain about of pages each week in their guided read and reading for pleasure books. If they achieve that total they will either received a milkshake or free time. If they read with their Parents/Carers, they also receive a biscuit. Here are our first winners.

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04-11-2025
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Who, what, where, why, how and when. There are so many questions!

We received a very interesting package today, we have been discussing where it came from and even questioned the postman!

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06-11-2025
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Independent writing

We have come into class this morning and found a very interesting picture on our board. We then tried to independently write some words and sentences.

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11-11-2025
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09.10.25-English- Henry’s Freedom Box

In English, we did some Drama to help us remember the story we are learning about. Year 5 have read ‘Henry’s Freedom Box’ and today they dramatised the story of him escaping in the box. This is going to help them later on, when they write an autobiography on Henry.

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