Blog by Tag: Writing

This week in History we have been  answering the question “How do we celebrate monarchs?”. In doing so we learnt all about the jubilee and how this celebrates the monarchs major milestones. We also  found out that Kings and Queens have two birthdays. During the summer birthday celebration they…

Year 1 have worked on writing in the past tense this week! They learnt that when writing in the past tense we are writing about something that has already happened. at first they found this a little tricky to know how tenses can be changed but eventually they blew us away with their writing.

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In Grammar this week, Y4 learnt all about relative clauses! This is a particularly tricky part of Grammar, however Y4 showed a great deal of enthusiasm in this lesson, with some children even including some relative clauses in their independent writes later in the week! Super work Y4!  

We absolutely loved role playing our new story Greta and the Giants. We completed freeze frames from different parts in the story to make sure we knew the sequence before writing a retell. 

Year 5 Dolphin class worked really hard in English this morning, planning their setting descriptions of Camp Green Lake (the setting of the book HOLES by Louis Sachar) using the DADWAVERS format.  They used each sense to formulate a specific structure, that will really aid in their independent…

Today, we wrote sentences to describe what Handa is doing in the story 'Handa's Surprise'. We applied our Phase 3/4 phonics knowledge to spell, and are becoming much more confident with our use of finger spaces between words. We have also been practising the skills of using a capital letter and…

Year 5 Dolphins have worked really hard today, in sweltering heat, as magpies, extracting setting description features independently. We are clearly nearly year six ready! 

To enable our writing to have appropriate vocabulary within, we looked at how to use suspense and tension within narrative writing. We used skills such as show not tell, figurative language and a range of clause structures to build appropriate suspense and tension up within our writing. 

This half term Year 1 are using the story “Hello Lighthouse” as their writing stimulus. The children used role play and drama to retell the key events in the story. In doing so they took on the role of different characters thinking about their actions, feelings and…

Year 5 Dolphins have used their reading VIPERS summarising skills this morning to help in their understanding of our new text this week.

This week, Y4 have been introduced to their final Y4 text entitled 'The Boy at the Back of the Class'. So far, we've read the first 3 chapters and Y4 have thoroughly enjoyed it! We have started our preparation for our next independent write which will be a diary entry from the perspective of the…

Year five Dolphins really enjoyed role playing the lives of convicts at Camp Green Lake, the setting of our class text, 'Holes' by Louis Sachar today. Mrs Edwards was a very convincing prison warden!