Curriculum Impact Tag: English

We are beginning a new story in our literacy lessons, This is the Bear and the Scary night! Today we have created a talk for writing map to help us to remember the story and we then discussed what actions we could include for our retell. 

We have begun our new class text called ‘This is the bear and the scary night’ 

We have enjoyed using actions and phrase to retell the story during our Talk For Writing lesson. Look at the story map we have created together as a class! 

This week in Writing, we have started a new genre of writing. We will be preparing to write a third person retell. We started the week looking at the features of a third person retell and then later on in the week we shall be exploring different pieces of vocabulary we could use in our…

As we have focussed on sentence structure and the importance of punctuation, we have unscrambled sentences from Goldilocks and the Three Bears to write using finger spaces.

We have been working on the importance of sentence structure to include the correct punctuation. Today we have focused on capital letters - identifying and matching the upper case and lower case letters.

This week we have been unscrambling words to make super sentences which make sense. Some other children have been unscrambling letters to make words. We are then going to write the sentences and words which we have made remembering all of the letter formation which we have been practising in our…

This half term in Writing Y6 will be studying the book ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’. This is a fantastic book with some amazing descriptive language. For our first independent write, we shall be writing a setting description of Hogwarts. Y6 are really enjoying this text so far and I…

This week in Writing we have addressed our misconceptions surrounding using apostrophes for possession. This is something year 4 have been finding really tricky but this week they have showed fantastic determination and resilience! Well done! 

Today the children have practised their skills in journalism by conducting interviews with Tam and Holly about the disappearance of Varjak, taking on the role of interviewer and interviewee the children came up with lots of questions they could ask each other and thought carefully about how they…

This week we have planned to write an alternative version of Jack and the Beanstalk! The children thought of some great ideas. We have changed the Giant to a Mermaid and instead of a beanstalk, Jack will dive into a crystal, clear lagoon to the Mermaid’s castle!

Today we have planned our first person diary entry ready for when we complete our independent writes next week. We ensured we included the correct Year 5 standards in our plan to really help us when we are writing next week! 

We have worked in groups to create an adjective word bank to help us to describe Jack, the Giant and the Beanstalk. We can use these to support our writing!