Y3 Talk for Writing
Today we challenged our y3 children to create their own text map for a section of our class text ‘street child’ The children followed a video and we also asked […]
Category Archives: Literacy
Kindness poetry and P4C
Today, in school, we thought about what kindness looks like to us. We used animals, colours, facial expression and flowers to represent kindness in different ways. Y5/6 completed a P4C […]
Y5 – Performing Our Poems
Year 5 loved writing their own poems about Space last week. Some of the children have built up their confidence and fluency in reading aloud and wanted to share their […]
Y3: Victorian Diary
Last week we asked our Y3 children to write a diary entry as the character Maggie Johnson from the series Victorian Diary. All children built up their skills of first […]
Y5 Space poems
Y5 have written some brilliant poems about space. They have learnt about shape and Haiku poems so far. The Y5 teachers can’t wait to see the amazing poems written towards […]
Immersive Reading: Audio Book Y3
This week our Y3 children have began to explore our new text ‘street child’. All children listened to chapter 1 to discover Jim Jarvis, and his evil landlord ‘Mr Spink’. […]
Wanted … aspiring reporters
David Walliams – Free Audiobooks
David Walliams has confirmed he will be releasing a free audio story each day for the next 30 days to help keep you all entertained and to keep encouraging your […]
Get Caught Reading Competition
Well done to the winners of our ‘get caught reading’ competition!
Ring a bell at random and read!
To celebrate World Book Day 2020 and Book Week, we have had impromptu reading sessions to read our favourite books. What a lovely surprise!
Lesson planning
The children worked hard this afternoon researching their given area on the Vikings. They then had to teach the rest of the class what they had found out in preparation […]
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 […]
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 […]
