The Blog Squad
Miss Thomson is passionate about instilling a love of literature and thirst for writing within SJSJ. The Blog Squad consists of a group of passionate, emphatic writers who wish to write for pleasure outside of their scheduled writing lessons. It aims to give children a true purpose and audience for their writing, with The Blog Squad providing updates for the school community about key events and the day-to-day running of the school. The Blog Squad will work closely with Miss Thomson to generate ideas for the School Blog, plan and write posts and even take pictures to be shared on the School Blog. This will be delivered through a safe, child-friendly online blog which will then be shared frequently with the school community. We know this will create an engaged community of writers at SJSJ and will promote writing as a fun and exciting extra-curricular activity.
Class Representatives
These are our Blog Squad members for this academic year:
- Year 2 – To be announced
- Year 3 – To be announced
- Year 4 – To be announced
- Year 5 – To be announced
- Year 6 – To be announced
Staff Lead
Miss Thomson is our Blog Squad lead. For more information about what the Blog Squad have been ‘blogging’ about, keep an eye on our school newsletter and website for links and updates.
What have the Blog Squad been up to?
Autumn Term was a very exciting time for Blog Squad!
During this time, we set up our blog, exploring the intricacies of how formatting and publishing blog posts work. We are using the platform ‘Webador’, a particularly user-friendly blogging software which is accessible for our children. Nevertheless, this still took a bit of time and hard work to get the hang of! We needed to understand how to set up a post, refine our typing skills to ensure we could include the correct punctuation within our work, and even learn how to insert images to complement our blog.
Some of our posts include Meet the Blog Squad, Black History Month at SJSJ and The Meaning of Christmas. Each post takes two full weeks to complete- our first session comprises of planning and draft writing our post with our year group partner, whilst in our second session we finish our post and proof-read for any errors. The final post always gets checked by Miss Thomson, who is ALWAYS impressed by our work!
In Spring Term, we will continue writing about key events within the school, including why and how we are raising money for solar panels (linking with Green Team), book recommendations from our Reading Champions, World Book Day and The Meaning of Easter. Blog Squad are always looking for ideas for posts, so feel free to visit our blog and leave a comment. What would YOU like to see on our blog? Our aim is for our blog to be BY the children, FOR the community.
Follow the link below to see what we have done.