Dragon Models
Today 5S have been making their dragon models ready to begin their animations next week which are based on the book ‘To Train Your Dragon’. We looked at our designs […]
Category Archives: Literacy
Modelling
We brought our designs to life today by making our dragons ready for animation making.
Y5&6 writing workshop with author Harriet Goodwin
Some Y5&6 pupils have had the opportunity to attend a writing workshop with author Harriet Goodwin. They have been inspired by her creativity and have started writing their own exciting […]
Meet me by the Steelmen diary entries
This week all our Y3 Children have had the difficult task of getting into character of becoming Jenny or Stevie from our class text ‘Meet me by the Steelmen’. We […]
Y5AAD persuasive letter writing
In Y5AAD we created sentences using persuasive features to invite Mrs Fearnley to watch our play at the Civic. We shared our ideas on padlet and worked well as a […]
Reading award
Today we presented our Hilary Ford awards to our children who have made the most progress in reading this term in each class. Well done and remember…keep reading! 📚
Y6M: A Christmas Truce
We have started to think about our new topic and the real message behind Christmas in 6M. We used the story of the WW1 Christmas Truce, to inspire our narrative […]
Keeping it current in 4C 📰
This morning, Y4C’s big write task was to write a newspaper report about yesterday’s general election. We watched live coverage from the news and talked about what the result now […]
Y3 Punctuating Direct Speech
This week in Y3 we have been punctuating and writing speech to include in our narrative. We considered the conversation between Mowgli, Kaa and Bagheera.
Capulet’s ball
We have been preparing for the Capulet’s masked ball. After much research we designed our own masks and then made them ready for the ball in our January performance.
Coding
5A have been working hard exploring Scratch writing code to change the scenes and conversations in their stories.
Preparation is key
The children have been finishing off the final touches on the Christmas displays ready for the grand reveal on Wednesday! Maths, literacy, science, French, P4C, history are just some of […]
Poetry week P4C in 4C- Memories
Today, Y4C engaged in a P4C session and used the poem memories as a P4C stimulus. Our P4C question was… ‘Why is it important to make good memories?’
Drama in 4C 🎭
Today in Literacy, we got into role as one of the main characters in our class book, Barney. We thought about the type of questions an interviewer might ask Barney […]
Y5S Blackout Poetry
Today we have created our own poems by using the ‘blackout’ technique. This involved us reading some of Shakespeare’s sonnets and choosing words that we liked to put together and […]
Haiku Writing Y3
This afternoon in Y3 we looked at some traditional Japanese poetry – Haiku’s We explored how many syllables for each line. We used a frame to help us count the […]
Y4C write to Mrs Adams ♻️
Today, Y4C published their letters to Mrs Adams. We wanted to persuade Mrs Adams to support us with our Nemesis mission to encourage school to recycle their paper. We can’t […]
Y4C get persuasive!
We had a great Literacy lesson this afternoon where we used our best persuasive and emotive language to sell an object. We worked in small groups and came up with […]
Y5S Drama
Today in literacy we worked in groups to act out a scene from Hamlet. This was extremely useful in helping us understand play scripts and how they are written in […]
