If you want to see excellent handwriting and presentation then you only need to look at the books in Year 5! The children consistently work hard to use their best handwriting and presentation....
Reception have been having fun with phonics in their small group lessons, learning new sounds, how to write them and identifying words that start with the sounds they have learned. We use the Read Write Inc phonics scheme, building children's knowledge systematically and helping them...
In Year 1 we have been working on our fine motor skills and building strength for writing. We have used a range of resources and techniques to help us, from exercises like marching on the spot, star jumps and knee taps to creating a basket of...
Look at these busy writers in Year 5, where excellent handwriting and presentation are visible everywhere you look!...
In Writing this week, we explored the protagonist’s thoughts and feelings - from the film ‘The Little Freak’ - and expressed them through an emotive monologue. We then performed our monologues using expressive voice and intonation....
In Writing this week, Year 4 have been editing and publishing their setting descriptions. We used similes, expanded noun phrases and our senses to create a setting description based on our class story, A River. After publishing, we drew our settings to match our descriptions. ...
This week in Writing, we explored the picture book Window, a text that helps children understand how growth and change affect the world around us. During this lesson, we looked closely at what could be seen through the window in each scene and used figurative...
In Writing this week, Year 4 looked at how to use their 5 senses when writing a setting description. They planned out different ways to use their senses whilst also writing using similes or expanded noun phrases....
In Writing we have started to read Flotsam by David Wiesner. This is a wordless book, so we enjoyed narrating the story using pictures and our imaginations!...
In writing this week, we carried out a debate on whether we felt Nepalese sherpa -Tenzing Norgay- deserved the same recognition as British mountaineer -Edmund Hillary- for being the first to summit Mount Everest in 1953. We explored both sides of the argument and prepared...