Blog by Tag: Writing

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…

We are always practising our name writing and we are making super progress!
Well done nursery, continue to practise your name at home to and show your families how super you are! 

We made Father's Day cards for our dads to show our appreciation for all that they do for us. We decorated the front of our card by colouring and sticking, and then wrote a message inside. We are looking forward to giving our cards to our loved ones on Sunday. Happy Father's Day!

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…

In Writing, we have started our new class text entitled ‘Oranges in No Man’s Land’. For our first independent write we shall be writing a setting description of pre-war Beirut. In one of our lessons this week, we explored a range of vocabulary we could use to describe Beirut pre civil war and…

For our piece of creative writing this week, we are going to be writing an informal letter as a survivor of the Titanic. Y6 have really enjoyed learning all about the Titanic and have produced some amazing pieces of work this week! Well done Y6, I look forward to reading your final independent…

Today we looked at the features of a letter. We identified these features and year 2 standards used in a variety of different examples. 

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!

This week we have taken part in some role play to explore our characters (in our new text 'The Firework Maker's Daughter) thoughts, feelings and emotions!

As Y6 prepare for their SATs, we have recapped some tricky pieces of punctuation. We have focused on semi-colons, colons, dashes and hyphens. I was really impressed with how well Y6 have developed their understanding of these tricky pieces of punctuation and how they have applied their knowledge…

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!