Winter Sleep Poetry

These children have worked hard creating their poems based on the text Winter Sleep – A Hibernation Story by Sean Taylor and Alex Morss. Both girls enjoy reading and writing at home, too. Well done!

Kennings and a Cyclops!

Year 6 had some fun today writing a Kenning for the cyclops character from our class text – Odysseus. And … some wonderful sketches to accompany it too !

Cleaning up!

We have started our new class book ‘The Secret Sky Garden’ and we were inspired to get outside and clean up our playground. We even braved the rain to do it!

A Speech To Save The Earth

With our whole school text, ‘Here We Are’ Year 6 had the task of writing a speech. We combined knowledge gained from our recent Geography topic to help us do just this. We have also been performing them for our class, working on our intonation and expression to gain and retain audience attention.

Here We Are

Today we started our whole school book – Here We Are by Oliver Jeffers. We started by reading the book together and then, in teams, we thought of everything that we can find on Earth. What a great start to the new term.

Dual Narratives in Y6

Rainy Day Exploration

We enjoyed creating stepping stones for the rain today and watching what happens when we drew in the puddles.

Editing Stations

Year 4 have finished their persuasive letters and spent today’s lesson editing their work. We rotated around various editing stations to ensure we focused on one feature at a time. The children were able to spot mistakes a lot easier in this way.📖✏️🔎

A Dual Narrative this week in Y6

We have been working on writing our own dual narrative this week. We have done lots of pre-writing work, now we have begun writing our own stories using two characters from Hansel and Gretel.

Preparing for writing

Year 6 spent some time yesterday finding out what a dual narrative is: we read an example and identified language and organisational features of the text, We then used our oracy skills to hot seat characters to gain a deeper understanding of emotions, actions and motivation. During our role on the wall work, we came up with some truly mind-blowing words!

Writing a persuasive letter of support

Year 6 have thoroughly enjoyed this writing activity linked to Hansel and Gretel. We wrote a persuasive letter / a letter of support telling our friends Hansel and Gretel reasons why they should not go into the old woman’s cottage.

Reading Pictures

We are reading Into the Forest by Anthony Browne. The children are enjoying looking at his fantastic illustrations and seeing what they can spot. The pictures tell the story and keep us guessing about what happens next.

Personification!

We have used today to compile a list of words that personify the sun – both human actions and emotions. We started constructing sentences with these words so we were ready for our next lesson.

Script writing and performing

We have written scripts for two characters in our book. We have used our inference skills to create a conversation that might have happened between them. Then we had some children perform their scripts to the class.

Remembrance poetry

To think about those who have lost their lives, we created some rhyming poetry. We based our poems on poppy fields, just like our art work.

Writing in role

Year 6 really enjoyed writing in the role of a character today, we could use some some words we would never normally say as they are not polite! Writing is based on the woodcutter’s wife’s reaction to the children finding their way home after her husband took them deep into the forest to lose them! She is not a happy lady!

Art and feelings

Starting our new book, we met a character that loves the sun light stroking her skin as she dances. We used this image to create our own to show how the sun makes the girl feel.

Planning time

We are planning our instructions for how the Ancient Egyptians would have mummified a body to preserve it.

Session 4- Parent Literacy Workshop

Thanks to all parents for coming along to session 4 of our parental literacy workshop which focused on writing.Please join us on Wednesday 22nd October for our final literacy workshop. The time will be 2.15-3pm. Many thanks.

Egg Box Dragon Kenning Poems

We worked so hard to create a kenning poem. We thought about what we know about Egg Box Dragon and used our knowledge of the suffix -er too. I am very proud of you all, good job!

Year 2 English

Year 2 had a lovely afternoon creating a Kenning poem using the suffix er.

Writing in role

Year 6 have been taking on the role of Rose Blanche in English and have written a diary extract from her point of view.

Working Together

We have had a wonderful start to the school year. It is lovely to see the children working hard and helping each other. We have also used our home languages to help our friends who are new to English.

Prepositions

We looked at prepositions today, focusing what we could change in our sentence accuracy. Some great examples!

Marcy and her emotions

We have been exploring our new character’s feelings and how they have changed through the book. Marcy started off excited for an adventure but quickly changed to fear and worry when it went dark and she reached the cave.

Writing in role

Year 6 have been writing in role this week and today they took on the role of a friend, giving advice to Rose Blanche  after she told us what she had seen in the forest.

The Layers of the Amazon Rainforest

Today, we learned about the four layers of the Amazon Rainforest: the emergent layer, the canopy, the understory and the forest floor. These children worked very hard and produced wonderful work. Well done!

Leon and the Place Between

In English, we read the story Leon and the Place Between by Grahame Baker-Smith. One of our activities was to create a poster for the circus.

Handwriting Improvement

This hard-working boy has been practising his handwriting. He has made big improvements and is determined to get even better. Well done!

Substitution Tables For Writing

This boy created sentences about the story The Emperor’s New Clothes. A substitution table helped provide support to write different types of sentences. This story contains themes such as vanity and greed as well as humour. We’ve enjoyed reading it together.