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Writing

03 Feb

What’s happening in Year 6 – Week 5

This half term in History, Year 6 have been expanding their knowledge of Ancient Civilisations by learning about Ancient Maya. The children started by looking at world maps and identifying the location of the land that was occupied by Ancient Maya - this was once...

12:07 / Humanities / news 03.02.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 6 / nbegum
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03 Feb

What’s happening in Nursery – Week 5

In Nursery this week, linked to our topic 'transport' and literacy core text 'Naughty Bus', children have enjoyed learning the words and actions to the song 'The Wheels on the Bus.' As a class we created a story map and actions to help us sequence...

12:00 / EYFS / news 03.02.2023 / Newsletter / Nursery / Parents / Reading / Uncategorised / Writing / nbegum
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20 Jan

What’s happening in Year 1 – Week 3

During our writing session the children brainstormed adjectives to describe different pictures in the book. As you can see they used very ambitious adjectives to describe the nouns. ...

12:02 / news 20.01.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 1 / nbegum
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13 Jan

What’s happening in Year 6 – Week 2

The Year 6 teachers have been extremely impressed with the pupils' poetry writing this week. They have been using their class text, Macbeth by William Shakespeare, to support them in writing some fantastic poems about the three witches that Macbeth encounters at the beginning of...

12:07 / News 13.01.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Spanish / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 6 / nbegum
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13 Jan

What’s happening in Year 1 – Week 2

In writing, we are reading a book that talks about the evolution of moths. The pictures are beautiful and the descriptions are so vivid and rich. We discussed the life cycle of a moth and the children created their own diagrams, as well as this...

12:02 / News 13.01.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 1 / nbegum
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06 Jan

What’s happening in Year 6 – Week 1

This term in writing, we are exploring a new key text: Macbeth by William Shakespeare. Today we began to unpick the text, looking specifically at the witches' spell. We will be using inspiration from the text to write poems to convey the dreaded spell! Our...

12:07 / News 06.01.2023 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 6 / nbegum
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15 Dec

What’s happening in Year 5 – Week 7

Year 5 have been doing some brilliant writing! They recently completed their writing assessments and used structure strips to support their writing in each paragraph. They have been working on using figurative language, as well as -ing clauses at the beginning and in the middle...

12:06 / News 15.12.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 5 / nbegum
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02 Dec

What’s happening in Year 6 – Week 5

Year 6 have been writing persuasive letters to Winston Churchill this week, from the perspective of Ruth Balicki, who is a character from the text they are reading in class - The Silver Sword by Ian Serallier. The Balickis are a Polish family, who had their...

12:07 / Diverse Britain / News 02.12.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 6 / nbegum
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18 Nov

What’s happening in Year 5 – Week 3

Year 5 have loved their writing cycle, all about poetry. We wrote free verse poetry, which is poetry that does not follow any conventional rules. They wrote about the rainforest and described a spooky walk into the jungle. The children worked as partners to brainstorm...

12:06 / News 18.11.2022 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 5 / nbegum
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04 Nov

What’s happening in Year 3 – Week 1

This week Year 3 used Rainbow Grammar to practise punctuating direct speech correctly.  They used yellow, green, orange and red to colour-code components of direct speech. [gallery ids="10520,10521,10522"]...

12:04 / Newsletter / Parents / Uncategorised / Writing / Year 3 / nbegum
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Isabella Road,
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