Our Learning

What a fantastic first week we have had in Seals class! It has involved bingo, doodles and job applications!

English –

We started our first English unit of work this week, which is all centred around our chosen book: The Grand Hotel of Feelings. We began the unit of work, reading and comprehending the story, understanding how the hotel acts as a metaphor for humans and their experiences with feelings! We then used our understanding to support us in creating a bank of vocabulary for one or more of the feelings in the book. Our word banks included synonyms of the feeling, associated colours, items, shapes, sounds, colours and much more. During our next lesson, we discovered how to 'show not tell' emotions in our writing, using facial expressions, body language and actions to portray a particular feeling and make our writing more exciting. Today, we have completed our first extended piece of work, writing a letter or diary entry from the perspective of one of the characters in the book. We will continue to develop our descriptive writing skills next week.

Maths –

Year 6- We began our place value unit of work this week. This has included representing numbers to 10,000,000 in different ways (words, numerals, counters on a place value grid, partitioning) and placing numbers to 10,000,000 on a number line.

Year 5 - We have also started our place value unit of work this week which has consisted of...

Homework –

Children will be given their first piece of homework on Tuesday. This week, we would like the children to focus on practising their spellings, learning their times tables and reading at home. 

Spellings -

Year 6, List 1 – Homophones or near homophones

advice

advise

prophecy

prophesy

device

devise

licence

license

practice

practise

Year 5, List 1 - Words ending in 'cious'

vicious

gracious

spacious

malicious

precious

conscious

delicious

suspicious

atrocious

ferocious

Spellings given out: Tuesday 9^th September 2025

Spelling test: Tuesday 16^th September 2025

I hope the children have enjoyed their first week in Seals class. It has been wonderful getting to know them all!

Have a brilliant weekend,

Miss Bailey