This week in writing, we have been loving our key text, Sky Song by Abi Elphinstone. We have been writing two contrasting setting descriptions to describe the icy world of Erkenwald. To do this, we examined Abi Elphinstone's use of figurative language and drew two...
Our writing this term is based on our Humanities topic Sustainability. We started reading the book: "The Adventures of a Water Bottle," by Alison Inches. The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle is a book that presents the recycling journey of a plastic bottle from its...
This week in our writing, we have been looking at different settings and using powerful adjectives to describe them. We also used thesauruses to improve our vocabulary and to use a range of ambitious adjectives, verbs and adverbs. The children came up with a word...
This week in Year 5, we completed our writing assessments and our final writing piece for the term. Each and every child worked extremely hard and achieved their writing target. Here are examples of our persuasive writing from Rupert, Stephanie and Julia. [gallery ids="21824,21825,21826,21827"] ...
This week in Year 5, as part of our writing cycle, we have been working towards writing a newspaper report following Percy Jackson's car crash, after an incident with the Minotaur. This is all based around our writing key text, "Percy Jackson" by Rick Riordan....
This week in Year 5, we have been working towards writing a recount of an action scene based on chapter 4 of Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. In our immersion lesson we focused on how we can create tension in our...
This week, Year 6 have been finalising their balanced arguments, exploring the questions "Was Macbeth right to kill King Duncan?" in William Shakespeare's "Macbeth." In order to write our fantastic arguments, we sorted statements into proposition and opposition for the statement and engaged in some oracy,...
This week in year 5 we were looking at subordinating conjunctions in our grammar lesson. This was part of our writing cycle. Next week we will be looking to use our subordinating conjunctions in our writing to help us create a persuasive letter from Percy Jackson's mum...
For writing, Year 3 are writing a retell of the story "The Egyptian Cinderella" from the perspective of the protagonist's master. In their immersion lessons, they thought carefully about a range of show me don't tell me description they could use to show the characters...
This week in Year 5, we were writing a character description based on our writing text, “ Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan. Our writing focus was using colons and semi colons and using show me don’t tell me phrases to replace using...