01
Apr
Tyger, Tyger in Year 6
In English we have written modern versions of Tyger, Tyger by William Blake....
English – Writing
18
Mar
Narratives in Year 4 inspired by ‘A River’ by Marc Martin
We published some fantastic setting descriptions based on their own narrative inspired by ‘A River’ by Marc Martin. Miss Porritt was blown away by the captivating figurative language used such as onomatopoeia, similes, metaphors and expanded noun phrases. We are fantastic at creating mood and...
11
Mar
Peer reviews in Year 1
In writing we have been reading our setting descriptions to each other to peer review. We focused on the way we were using our voices and being active, whole body listeners!...
04
Mar
Pancake Day recount writing in Year 2
This week we have been having a writing competition to write a recount of our wonderful Pancake Day activities! Click the link to read the winning piece...
04
Mar
Pompeii diaries in Year 3
This writing cycle we have been working on writing a diary entry from the perspective of Liv in Escape from Pompeii. This is the first draft by one of the pupils in 3T....
25
Feb
Drama for writing in Year 3
This week in writing have been working towards writing a diary entry from the perspective of Tranio in Escape From Pompeii. We had a drama lesson where we shared emotions and feelings of the main character....
25
Feb
Instruction writing in Year 2
This week we have been learning all about instructions and how to write them. We followed two different sets of instructions to see which were easy to follow and which ones were harder. We found one set of instructions very confusing but we were able...
24
Feb
Conscious alley in Year 3
In our writing lessons, we were thinking about how the main characters escape in our new story ‘Escape from Pompeii’. Some of us had a chance at walking down ‘conscious alley’ where we were sharing our thoughts and opinions....
11
Feb
Editing our writing in Year 2
We have been practising our editing skills by working together to look at an example of somebody’s writing and looking for mistakes to correct. We then edited our own writing and gave ourselves a writing target....
11
Feb
Tudor comic strips in Year 2
We have finished our history topic on the Tudors. We reflected on our learning this week by creating a comic book strip on what we would do if we were Tudors for a day. We realised we had learnt so much this half term so...