This morning the pupils had a special assembly to introduce this year’s library challenge. This free scheme at all local libraries involves the children solving the mystery by reading 6 books over the course of the summer. There are plenty of rewards available for all budding detectives!
If you would like to know how to survive in a rainforest then ask someone in Year 5 – they have the knowledge!
Year 5 enjoyed the performance of ‘SPAG girl’ this afternoon. This supported spelling, punctuation and grammar work that they had learned and was also highly entertaining!
As always, the quality of home learning submitted has been to a very high standard this term. In year 3 there was skilful use of chocolate bars to fill spaces within writing this week.
The word ‘determiner’ was introduced to the primary curriculum last year. This class of words relate directly to nouns but are not adjectives – they ‘determine’ the noun.
There are four main types of determiner:
We teach the pupils to identify determiners by finding the noun, investigating which words relate to the noun and then disregarding any adjectives.
Parenthesis is a specific term used within writing lessons, when additional information is inserted into sentences. This can be done using three different pairs of punctuation marks.
No parenthesis
Bournemouth has a very long beach.
With parenthesis
Bournemouth, situated on the south coast of the United Kingdom, has a very long beach.
Bournemouth (a large town in the United Kingdom) has a very long beach.
Bournemouth – located within the United Kingdom – has a very long beach.
All conjunctions join clauses. Some are coordinating and some are subordinating. Subordinating conjunctions are placed before subordinate clauses. These clauses cannot stand on their own.
MC SC sentences
These sentences have a main clause, then a subordinating conjunction and then a subordinate clause.
We went to the beach when we were bored.
‘When we were bored’ is subordinating because it cannot stand on its own.
SC, MC sentences
These sentences place the subordinate clause first in the sentence.
When we were bored, we went to the beach.
A white bus
A good way to remember which conjunctions are subordinating is ‘A white bus’:
Although When However If Though Even though Because Until Since
