Over the past couple of weeks in Y5/6 we have been focusing on horror texts, particularly texts which create tension and suspense. This week we have been applying our new skills to some group writing and we have been experimenting with sentence structure, vocabulary and punctuation to create suspense and…

This morning in Class 11 we have been applying the skills which we have been learning over the past couple of weeks to a piece of collaborative writing. Today our challenge was to work as a team to create a terrifying piece of writing which was full of tension and…

Today in Class 11 we have been studying dermatoglyphics – the examination of fingerprints. We have been collecting, recording and analysing the unique features in each others fingerprints. We have also managed to dust some prints of off a piece of evidence and we’re now looking to collect the fingerprints of…

This morning in Class 11 we became ‘Sentence Scientists’ as we were experimenting with and building different sentence structures! Check out some of our fab group work below, once we had learnt these different sentence structures we made an ExplainEverything to show to show the rest of the class what…

After spending the afternoon discussing how we think the murder may have unfolded, we have began to put together a suspect list. Before we can begin interviewing our potential suspects we needed to think about why we think they might be guilty and what evidence we have to suggest this……

This afternoon we have been taking another look at the evidence that we collected from the crime scene on the decking. After compiling the evidence we spent some time discussing what we believed may have happened and how the murder might have unfolded… From this, we began to create our…

This morning in literacy we are going to be watching a range of different video’s, our challenge is to identify what genre these video’s are and their purpose.. What are the key features which give it away? How could you describe the scene? https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html (Pink Table – Draculas Whitby) https://www.literacyshed.com/the-fairy-tale-shed.html (Yellow Table…

Our Maths class today are going to be ordering some food from the takeaway! What’s your favourite take away? I can’t wait for my pepperoni pizza later on!    

Have you heard about what has happened? Last Wednesday we were informed that there had been a murder on the school premises! Can you believe it? It is thought that the crime scene was discovered during the summer holidays! After the crime scene had been cleared by the Police we were…