Blog by Tag: English

This half term, year 5 have been basing their literacy work around the story of 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

A summary of this amazing tale - Arthur decides to make the journey to the great hall and help Thor catch the wicked Fenrir. There, he is set the almost impossible task of sourcing…

In our literacy lessons, Year 5 have been channelling their inner directors and working together to create a storyboard for a scene from 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

We had to plan out how the scene would be shot if we were the director, we had to take into consideration how we would capture a…

After making predictions and watching a short video clip, the children started mapping out events from a child's perspective.  The children will use these timelines to support diary writing next week. 

In literacy we have been weighing up the pros and cons of living in The Stone Age.

Some of the Year 1 and 2 parents and carers attended an introductory meeting about how Read, Write Inc. works in our school.

Each class has been promoting and developing our pupils' knowledge and understanding of new vocabulary.  In Literacy, pupils have explored tier 1, 2 and 3 words linked to their topic, Read, Write Inc. or Pathways to Write.  In other subject areas such as Geography and IT, pupils are investigating…

Year 3 and 5 have finished their stories just in time for Christmas.

Today we shared our stories with each other.

Children in Year 4 have been looking at conjunctions and exploring how they can change the meaning of a sentence.   

In computing this week, Y6 confidently formatted text about their disaster recounts. We inserted pictures and aligned text. Our typing speed and stamina are really improving!

In history, Y6 have examined the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79.

We asked the hinge question: 

Which two cities were affected by the AD 79 volcanic eruption?

Tick one.

Vesuvius and Pompeii

Herculaneum and Delta

Delta and Vesuvius

Pompeii and…

After reading Oliver Jeffers, 'Here we are', Reception class decided to explore their local environment when they noticed a lot of rubbish! We had a discussion about what we could do about it and they were quick to suggest we should pick up the litter to protect and look after our local wildlife…

"This book is about young boy called Bun who soon turns blind and finds a sword in a tomb lying under his garden and is tempted to keep it.  He dreamed of returning the sword to King Arthur and the next day he could see again. 

 

I would recommend this book to children who like sad books,…