Blog by Tag: English

Today, we have celebrated World Book Day and we have had so much fun. Our costumes looked amazing! We have taken part in an online workshop led by the author-illustrator Thiago de Moraes who has written the book Mighty Myths. We were taught how to draw creatures that could feature in his book. We…

We had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day.

We had a great time today celebrating books and reading. We had a book cafe with some wonderful parents coming in to read to us. We also read the books we have been writing, in English, to our friends in Reception. We enjoyed a book trail around the school and even had time to fit in an online…

Year 6 began their World Book Day celebrations with a return visit to Ashton Manor residential care home. We enjoyed an afternoon of sharing some of our favourite books with the residents, chatting about books they enjoyed reading as children and they even helped us with a book character quiz. 
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Today four children from Year 3 and 4 attended a writer's workshop at Bowerham School led by the writer David Webb.  They had a really great day and learnt some great writing techniques.

Today, Year 6 enjoyed the first of a series of online writing lessons with Pie Corbett (a very famous author and poet). We used our Chromebooks to interact with Pie and the 14 other schools involved in the session. We were able to add our own ideas using the “Padlet” function and get feedback from…

In English, we have been looking at the key features of a fantasy story. We were shown a variety of different objects and had to imagine what magical powers they could have. What good imaginations we have!

We have been working on giving advice to help someone make a decision. We used the conscience alley technique. 
We took turns to be Alex (the main character from our new novel). Listening to the whispered advice from our friends, we had to decide whether to be a spy or not. 
In the book, Alex is…

We have started our new class book - Stone Age Boy - which is all about a little boy who time travels to the Stone Age and meets a little girl there. Today we acted out some of the scenes where they meet. We then wrote down what we thought they might be thinking or saying to each other. 
 

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Today, along with children from some other local schools, Year 6 went to Ripley to meet the famous children’s author Jacqueline Wilson. We learnt how she began writing in primary school and had her first story published in a magazine at the age of 17. Her first book was published when she was 26…

As part of our new English topic, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, we have learn the beginning of Robert Browning's poem.  We hope you enjoy it!

This morning, Year 6 made the most of the dry sunny day to learn some orienteering skills at the same time as practising their spelling, grammar and punctuation. First we had to orientate our maps and become familiar with the key before using them to locate control points around the school…