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...
English – Writing
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...
11
Feb
Emmeline Pankhurst letters in Year 3
This term we have been learning about The Suffragettes in History. We have also been writing letters in the perspective of Emmeline Pankhurst. “Deeds Not Words!”...
11
Feb
Exploring how to live the Ashram way of life in Year 4
In writing we have been writing a balanced argument discussing the advantages and disadvantages of living the Ashram of peaceful and sustainable living....
04
Feb
Newspaper reports in Year 4
We published our magnificent newspaper reports about waste found in the Ashram village based on our topic book 'Be the Change'. We explored formal language, wrote two sections of the report based on a plan and worked with our partners to edit and improve our...