Student Council Meeting
Our dedicated Student Council representatives met with Mrs Mawe and Miss Meaburn today to discuss a very exciting, top secret event that we are planning for everyone (in school or […]
Category Archives: Oracy
Virtual talk for writing
Year 3 have been using actions whilst orally rehearsing their text maps on our live literacy lesson.
Y4A live spelling
This afternoon we did a live spelling lesson on homophones and near homophones. Well done year 4 for getting involved and using your spelling words in different sentences.
Y4K P4C
In Y4K’s P4C lesson we read ‘After the Fall’. After much discussion the question that the class chose was: We then talked about how it would depend on which parts […]
Y4A newspaper editing
Today in Y4A we used our oracy skills to read aloud our newspaper report. This helped us spot any missing words and helped us notice what we wanted to change. […]
Y6 P4C – The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse
Today in Y6, we read ‘The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse’ and discussed the P4C question, ‘Why is kindness important?’ We used talk partners well to share […]
Astronaut press conference
Year 5 have been putting their drama and oracy skills into practice today when we held a “NASA press conference” in our literacy lesson. Pupils were put in the hot-seat […]
Y4K RE
Today Y4K took part in discussions with their peers about what they think happens once we die. Everybody had their say while the rest of the group listened. It was […]
Y5 P4C 🌍 ♥️
Today in P4C, Y5 read the book, ‘Here We Are.’ Our chosen P4C question was, ‘is it good to be different?’ We spoke about our own similarities and differences and […]
Y4A Robin Hood Interviews
In Y4A we used our oracy skills to ask each other thoughtful questions about Robin Hood. We took it in turns to be the interviewer and Robin Hood or one […]
Y4K Drama
Today we have been interviewing each other. We took on various roles such as the interviewer, Robin Hood, Maid Marion and the person filming. We thought about appropriate questions to […]
Y6Sn-WW2 Evacuation Broadcast
As part of our literacy learning, we have developed our oracy skills by creating a formal evacuation broadcast in the style of WW2. We have explored how to use formal […]
Y6St WW2 Radio Broadcasts
This week we have been writing our own radio broadcasts focusing on using formal language. We have recorded these to produce our very own WW2 radio broadcast and focused on […]
Y5 SPaG groups LIVE lessons
This morning, y5 attended a virtual online SPaG lesson to look at the important spellings for year 5/6 and to focus on a specific skill. They then went away and […]
Y5 Live Guided Reading 📚
Today, Y5 started their live guided reading sessions. It was great to see so many smiling faces!
Story time in Y5 – Reading with expression 📖 🎥
Y6Sn begin their recordings
Today we set the Y6 children a challenge of recording themselves to read for 2 mins thinking about expression, confidence and attention to punctuation. Here is our first submission from […]
Miss Snowden’s SPaG music mash
In spag this week we have been learning about different word classes. To help us remember them,we made up our own songs. Here’s one about verbs…
Y6St Drama
In our literacy lesson today, we acted out the opening scene from Goodnight Mr Tom with William, Mr Tom and the billeting officer. We read the text carefully to understand […]