We teach a wide variety of sentence types at QPA. Here are some examples from Year 5. ‘MC’ stands for ‘Main Clause’, a clause that can stand alone and still make sense. ‘SC’ stands for ‘subordinate clause’, a clause that relies on a main clause for it to make sense. All clauses require a subject and a verb.
Year 6 are sharing their fairytales with Year 3 pupils this morning before Year 3 write reviews of these stories. Some excellent speaking and listening in action!
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.
