23
Nov
Year 5 Writing Superstars
Look at these busy writers in Year 5, where excellent handwriting and presentation are visible everywhere you look!...
English – Writing
21
Nov
Emotive Monologues in Year 6
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....
21
Nov
Fabulous Settings Descriptions in Year 4
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. ...
14
Nov
Using Figurative Language in Year 5 Writing
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...
14
Nov
Descriptive Writing in Year 4
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....
09
Nov
Retelling the story of Flotsam in Year 3 Writing
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!...
16
Oct
Year 6 Debate: Recognising Tenzing Norgay’s Importance
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...
26
Sep
Year 2’s Wonderful Writing: Biographies of Walter Tull
Year 2 have been hard at work learning all about Walter Tull! After researching his incredible life as a professional footballer and World War I officer, the children planned and wrote their own biographies. Here they are carefully publishing their final pieces, proudly sharing Walter Tull’s inspiring...
19
Jul
Year 3’s Acrostic Poetry
Our last writing unit has been poetry, focusing on acrostic poems based on own knowledge of the Benin Kingdom. At the start of the week, we looked at different examples of acrostic poems and grouped them into different themes to identify just how many topics...
13
Jul
Year 4’s Passionately Persuasive Writing
In Writing this week, Year 4 have finished their persuasive letters. We began by learning about the environmental issues facing Hackney and then learned how to use persuasive language in a letter. These letters will be sent to our local MP to try to encourage...