This afternoon we continued with our Science case study, focusing on characteristics that offspring inherit from their parents. It was really interesting to listen to the children share their own stories about how they have been told they look like or behave like their family members. We then went on to relate this to a range of animals and the children loved the challenge of matching parent to offspring. We quickly worked out the difference between the Asian and African elephants but the ‘cat family’ definitely caught us out! Who knew how hard it was to identify the difference between a young jaguar, cheetah and leopard! Fab work guys – I have really enjoyed our first day of learning this half term. x

This morning we watched, critiqued and compared speeches made by Greta Thunberg and Emily Brown. We thought about the tone/style they used, who their audience was and the purpose of the speeches they gave. I was very impressed with the vocabulary the children used during the lesson and their reflections on which they preferred and why. Well done everyone for a great start to the new half term! x

I am loving reading the amazing stories the children in Crew Jackson have written. I am blown away by their description of the setting – using expanded noun phrases and fabulous vocabulary to create a picture in the reader’s head. The children have all worked hard to include dialogue between the characters to show their personalities and to move the action on in the story.

You are all authors in the making! xx