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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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"]...
This week in writing, Year 6 immersed themselves in the past and travelled back to a time of war in Warsaw, Poland. We have been analysing the power of language and using it to enhance our writing. To get us into character, we took inspiration...
For National Poetry Day, Year 4 welcomed Adisa. He spoke to us about his poems and encouraged us to write our own. Using the sentence stem ‘if I were a building...