12 Jul Year 1 – Talk for Writing
In Talk for Writing, we are going to be inventing our own stories featuring a monster. This week we created our own lollypop stick characters. We then used these to act out how our monster could be defeated. ...
In Talk for Writing, we are going to be inventing our own stories featuring a monster. This week we created our own lollypop stick characters. We then used these to act out how our monster could be defeated. ...
In Talk for Writing this week, we have been looking at our new poetry text, 'Here comes Sister Speed'. We came up with actions and gestures to match the poem. We also thought about how to perform it, making sure we use expression, changing the...
Year 4 have been reporters this week. We have written a newspaper report on a UFO sighting at Parsloes Primary School playground, which was spotted by our very own Mrs, Deville. We then had a mysterious box appear in our classrooms, one from the Victorian...
This week the children in Nursery have been retelling the story ‘Three Billy Goat’s Gruff’ through a range of roleplay and small world activities. The children have been using the story language and have enjoyed dressing up as the different characters. ...
This week Reception came into school to find that a mysterious egg had been left in their classroom! They spent a long time investigating the egg and made predictions about what might be inside. We decided to put the egg somewhere safe outside while we...
In English, we have been focusing upon describing characters. We are beginning to read "The Iron Man" and have been thinking about what we know about the character so far. We have created a list of questions that we have about the character which we...
Year 2 started this term by creating our own 'toy museum' in the classroom. We brought small toys from home and shared information about our toy. This also links to our Talk for Writing unit, which is a non-chronological report. We have read the text...
This week in our Talk 4 Writing lessons, we have started a new unit based on the book 'The Big Blue Whale'. We went into the playground and measured the length of a blue whale to see how long it is. We then stretched ourselves...
In our English unit this term, we are writing portal stories. As part of the idea gathering stage of the process, we had a fun lesson where we used objects, images and sounds to help us to generate our story ideas. We worked collaboratively in...
This week in Year 2, we have started our new unit, which is to write an Explanation. We have been thinking about the features of an explanation text, which includes an introduction, sentence openers and topic words. We did our own collage of Zog and...