Cracking the feature code in Year 5
In Writing, we are writing an information text about the big book of beasts. We identified the features and purpose of features in informational texts. Ask us what parenthesis is and why we use it!...
In Writing, we are writing an information text about the big book of beasts. We identified the features and purpose of features in informational texts. Ask us what parenthesis is and why we use it!...
In Writing this week, Year 2 have started a new writing cycle based around the story “Tadpole’s Promise”. To help us to understand the story better, we refreshed our knowledge of frog and butterfly life cycles. We then drew the different stages of these animals’...
In Year 4 in our writing, we analysed poetry and put on some amazing performances. Next we will be writing our own and performing them....
We have been exploring the book ‘Emmanuel’s Dream’, an inspiring story about a young boy born with one deformed leg who later became a cyclist, riding an astonishing 400 miles across Ghana! This week we wrote letters from the point of view of Emmanuel to...
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....