We explored the poetry of Maya Angelou for Black History Month. We annotated her poems in groups and put on performances which we hope you’ll enjoy during our culture evening....
In Writing, we are looking into persuasive techniques to prepare us for writing a letter next week. To prepare us for this, we took part in a class debate. Our topic was: Is junk food suitable for children? Where we had to come up with...
We started a new writing cycle in Year 2, we have been learning about traditional tales from across the world. Our focus book is ‘Anansi the spider- A take from the Ashanti ’ by Gerald McDermott, to immerse ourselves in the story we created our...
In Literacy Reception have been reading Ruby's Worry. We had a go at making happy potions at our malleable table. We worked together to pick, measure and write down the ingredients to make the perfect recipe....
In writing we have been learning about headings and subheadings. We did a non fiction jigsaw to match the headings and subheadings in the correct places....
Year 6 supported children in year 2 during their writing lesson. Year 2 have been writing fantastic information texts based on Walter Tull. The children spent time reading over the information texts and used their correction pens to up-level....
In Writing, we have been learning about Viking runes to begin our new writing cycle where we will write an information text about The Vikings. We decoded the Viking runes and wrote our names and a secret message in them....
We have been writing our own Beowulf tale! We used our drama and narration skills to act out scenes from Beowulf and the Sea-hag. When we froze the narrator retold the story and the actors had to act out in response....
In Writing, we are exploring a new book - 'Romans on the Rampage'. To immerse ourselves into the book, we pretended to be Romans and took part in a chariot race on the playdeck!...
We have been writing a character description of a vile creature from the myth of Beowulf. In groups we created our own mythical creatures by drawing a part of the creature each....