Mokee Joe is coming… a very exciting author visit ✍️
Today, we had the great pleasure of spending the morning with the amazing Peter J. Murray. Keeping us gripping onto the edge of our seats with his nail biting tales […]
Category Archives: Writing
Our writing in HJA.
Y6 Tourism Debate
In Y6 we have been debating the question, ‘Is tourism on the coast a good thing?’. We have researched the impact of tourism on different places which helped us to […]
Writing workshops with Matt Beighton
Throughout the day, pupils across school have taken part in writing workshops with the children’s author, Matt Beighton. The workshops focused on generating ideas for story writing and pupils created […]
Author Visit – Matt Beighton 📚
Today we were privileged to have Matt Beighton, a children’s author, come to visit school to share his knowledge, enthusiasm and expertise on reading and writing. It was amazing to […]
Y6 Perfecting our presentation
In year 6 we have been working incredibly hard perfecting our presentational skills whilst publishing our non-chronological reports on puffins.
Y6 Rockpool Poetry
We used our visit to Robin Hood’s Bay to inspire us in our poetry this week.
Y6M I am Poetry
Clifton School taught a poetry lesson to our Year 6 children. Take a look at our beautiful outcomes…
Y4 free verse poems
This week in year 4 we have looked at different types of poetry leading to writing a free verse poem. The children used their critical and creative skills to write […]
Y6St Science Week
Y6St have loved science week. We have completed our own circuit investigations, completed our lighthouse STEM projects and taken part in a live science experiment with Sheffield Hallam University!
Y6M Peer Feedback
We have been busy writing and presenting our reports and today it was time to provide feedback. Well done, Year 6!
Virtual Talk 4 Writing in Year 4
Today year 4 used their excellent communication skills to do a Talk 4 Writing virtual lesson on our class text Stig of the Dump. They came up with some amazing […]
Y6 – Captain Cook Biographies
Over the past two weeks, Year 6 have been writing biographies on Captain Cook after conducting independent research on his life. They have worked really hard to ensure their writing […]
Y6St – Home Learning
I am extremely proud of all of 6St for the incredible effort and resilience they have shown towards their home learning over the past two weeks. Every day they have […]
Phonics in Y3 adding the suffix ‘ly’
This morning our Y3 phonics groups have continued to explore the suffix ‘ly’ we were adding it to words. We then created our own wordsearches!
Peer Critique in Y4J
This afternoon we looked at how we could improve our writing. To do this we completed a group peer critique where we reflected on our RUBRICS and discussed ways to […]
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. […]
Y4A Remembrance Day acrostic poems
Today in Y4A we used our reflection skills to generate words relating to Remembrance Day. We then turned them into acrostic poems and added some lovely illustrations. Well done Y4A!
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 […]
Y6St – Final day of remote learning
Today is our final day of remote learning before we return to school tomorrow. I am extremely proud of how the children have adapted to remote learning again and how […]