This week in our writing lessons we used our whiteboards and pens to compose our sentences for the retelling of 'Room on the Broom'. The children used capital letters, finger spaces and their phonic knowledge to write captions for key scenes from the story. This...
In Year 6, we have been learning about the power of language when used for effect. To prepare for our setting description, we have been exploring a range of language devices and how to manipulate our word choices to achieve a dark and mysterious tone....
Year 2 walked to the letterbox on Beechwood Road to post our letters to Mrs Meerkat from Meerkat mail! We tried really really hard with our letter formation and checked our writing back to see if it made sense. We hope she will write back...
This week, we have been working hard to write monologues inspired by the antagonist from the short children’s film ‘Roads End’. Once we had completed them, we worked together to orally rehearse our piece using intonation and expressive voice....
In writing, Year 3 are focusing on the book ‘Stone Age Boy’. This week the children have conducted hot seating to develop their understanding of the protagonist. They carefully curated questions which asked his thoughts and feelings about being transformed to a mysterious place....
This week in Nursery, we dove into an exciting new story called "So Much"! The children loved hearing about a family coming together to plan a big surprise for their dad's birthday. Inspired by the heart-warming story, the children practised writing their own birthday cards; using their...
In writing, year 3 have conducted role plays to retell the story of ‘Stone girl, Bone girl’. To emulate the character of Mary Anning focusing on feelings and the use of fronted adverbials in our speech. We will build on this learning to help us...
Year 6 have been hard at work writing their emotive diary entries about their day in the park as Ravi from Ravi’s Roar. The children have been exploring some of the key events in the book as part of establishment week....
In Nursery we continued reading the story “Anna Hibiscus’ song”; we then had a go at pounding yams, like Anna’s aunties do in the book! We soon discovered what hard work that is! Finally, as a reward for the hard work, we tasted the yams....
In Writing, Year 4 have been adding more descriptive details to our sentences. We played a game where we had to use show not tell sentences to describe different parts of a city....