This half term we have been think about Reflectiveness and in Year 3 we have had a big focus on distilling and planning.  We have been able to apply these skills across the curriculum to distil the important information or skills we need and then plan answers and pieces of work.  We have found that […]

In Reception DN we have been reflecting on knowing what the task is. The children listened to the story ‘The Everywhere Bear’ and then had a go at making their own bear puppets to use in our puppet theatre. The children used the puppets to help them tell their own stories of what might happen […]

Following on from our topic on explorers where the children had taken it in turns to take a bear home, with his suitcase and diary, the children decided they wanted to make some resources for the bears so they would be more comfortable.They thought about what they would like to make and if we had […]

In 1HM our focus has been on planning. When writing a setting description for the dining room on the Titanic, we first listened to the description of the setting from our class novel ‘Samson’s Titanic Journey.’ Then we extracted key information from the text to help us to draw the dining room as we imagined […]

This half term we have been focusing on our reflectiveness learning behaviour ‘revising’. This is when we can make independent changes to our learning and challenge ourselves to produce the best quality work we can. Any changes we make are in a green pen so that others can see our improvements. Take a look at […]

This half term our learning behaviour has been meta-learning and distilling and the children have really mastered these within the classroom. We use the skill of distilling often in our classroom in all subjects and we had a focus on this is maths and topic. In our maths lesson we focused on worded problems and […]

5MJ had to distil the essential information from a maths problem before they could complete the calculation.

The children in RTE are learning to plan what they are going to do and think about the resources they are going to need to complete a task. They have enjoyed planning their own stories and acting these out together.

This half term we have been focusing in on our reflectiveness and in Year 5 we have been looking at the skill of distilling. Distilling is the ability to pick out key pieces of information for example in a reading text the key words that help us answer a given question. We used the skill […]