This week we have started writing our own mystery stories. In today’s lesson we paired up and shared what we had written so far. Our partner then had to provide feedback to help us improve our writing. What feedback did you give? How did your partners feedback help you?

This week in literacy we have been discussing figurative language – can you explain to everyone what this means? Have a look at the picture below and try and come up with your own examples of figurative language for the picture. Can you tell us all what type of figurative…

Today we have learnt about different fingerprints and their characteristics. Then we examined our own fingerprints. We will use our knowledge from this investigations to further narrow down our list of suspects.

This morning we hosted a MacMillan Coffee Morning at HCPS. All children supported the cause by helping to sell buns, tea, coffee and juice, by promoting the raffle, by meeting and greeting the visitors and even by ‘guarding the doors!’. It was fantastic to see so many people supporting this…

We have had a very productive day today! In numeracy we used our knowledge of mass to accurately weigh out all the ingredients for some cupcakes. Then in the afternoon we decorated the buns, it was a little messy but great fun!! Come along to the MacMillan Coffee Morning tomorrow…

As a warm up in our literacy lesson today we have looked at using ‘unfortunately’ as a sentence opener. We looked at the picture below to start off. Then we had to come up with a suitable second sentence which began with ‘unfortunately’. Here are some of our best ones….

How would describe this place? Think about effective adjectives, adverbs and verbs. Could you use similes, alliteration or metaphors? I look forward to reading your ideas! Miss H

We were lucky enough to have microscopes in school this week to help us analyse the evidence from our crime scene. What have you learnt from your detailed analysis?

Today we have found out that we will be hosting a coffee morning to raise money for MacMillan Cancer Charity. What do we need to do to ensure this is a successful charity event? Can we top last year’s total of £411.19?

What a fantastic first week back! I feel like we have learnt so much in our first few days together. What was your favourite part of the week and why? What are you looking forward to next week? I hope you all have a great weekend and come back ready…