Newspaper feature hunting in Y4B 🔍
We looked at the features we would expect to see in a newspaper report
Tag Archives: Literacy
Reading breakfast in Y4B 🥐📖
Y4B welcomed parents for a breakfast reading session with the children, continental style with croissants and orange juice.
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.
Story Mapping in Year 4
This morning, Y4J created their own story maps to help them with their narratives. They have turned out brilliantly.
Guided reading with a poetry focus in Y4B 📖
Our class immersive text has a poetry epigraph, which we have enjoyed exploring this week 📖
What should Macbeth do?
Y5 have been exploring the character of Macbeth. They became his conscience and explored the reasons why he should or should not go through with his plan to kill Banquo […]
Year 4 Identify features of a diary
Today in Y4 we worked together as a team to identify features of a diary. We used teamwork and communication skills during this lesson.
Y4 Persuasive Writing
In Year 4 we have been looking at the features of persuasive writing. Yesterday one of our tasks was to create our own advert using the language and features that […]
Y3 Live Literacy: How to catch a Fox
This week our Y3 children have been working very hard on their instructional writing. We are planning how the farmers from Fantastic Mr Fox would catch Mr Fox. We shared […]
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 […]
Extended Metaphors
Fantastic learning by our Year 5 greater depth writing group this afternoon- learning how to use extended metaphors in our character descriptions. Excellent teamwork on google classroom. Well done everyone.
Y4 Stig of the Dump
Today in literacy we introduced our new immersive text. We are reading Stig of the Dump! After reading chapter 1 and meeting our characters, we had a go at drawing […]
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. […]
Y4K Shield Design
Today in Y4K we have been looking at instructions. We have looked at what components are included in writing a set of instructions. In order to help us achieve this, […]
Y3 Peer Critique
Y4A Drama
Today in year 4 we did some freeze frames to get into character as Robin Hood. We thought about the way he might have walked, stood, talked and the things […]