Newspaper feature hunting in Y4B 🔍
We looked at the features we would expect to see in a newspaper report
Category Archives: Writing
Our writing in HJA.
Y4B create Stone Age haiku poetry 🪨
We have enjoyed building on our poetry skills to create extended haiku poems about the Stone Age.
Y4B Stone Age Story maps 📖
We enjoyed creating a ‘Crood’ story map together, then had a go at publishing our own…
Y4B do drama and dialogue 🎭
Using drama to rehearse dialogue was great fun today! Our immersive reading area and desks became caves and groups sat around a campfire to mimic our model text.
Padlet in Literacy
In 6J we have been using inference to think about how a character may appear. We worked collaboratively on padlet to share our ideas of ambitious vocabulary on the same […]
Y6 Poetry Celebration at Rotherham Civic Theatre
We were blown away by the enthusiasm, confidence and creativity from all our poets at today’s poetry celebration at Rotherham Civic Theatre. They have all worked incredibly hard and it […]
Y6G Poetry Slam
We’ve had an amazing afternoon listening to Y6 performing their own poetry. They blew us away with their creativity, passion and confidence in performing. Well done Y6 – you should […]
Y6 Poetry Slam: This is my Truth
What a wonderful afternoon! An opportunity for the whole of Y6 to come together to share the poetry that they have worked so hard on writing.
Year 6 Vocabulary Parade for World Book Day📚
It has been wonderful having our pupils dress up as words for World Book Day to help develop their vocabulary. Year 6 loved sharing their costumes in our ‘Vocabulary Parade’ […]
Y6 Spoken Word Power
We’ve had an excellent morning exploring poetry in more detail and spending time editing and improving our own poems. We then learned how to perform them with confidence and to […]
Y6 Power of the Spoken Word
We had a very creative day with Grimm and Co exploring ‘our truth’ through poetry. We enjoyed working with our poets and can’t wait to perform our poems.
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 […]
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 […]