Blog by Tag: English

What a fun day we have had! We read lots of new books in our new reading area, completed a quiz with Y4 and they also read some stories to us and drew a positive/happy Dragon by following ‘Draw with Rob’, we made happy scales and we also spoke about what makes us…

What a great day we have had! We read lots of new books, adapted a traditional tale, played a character game, completed a quiz with Y1 and drew a knight by following ‘Draw with Rob’. Our costumes were fantastic too! 

As part of our World Book Day Week we invited parents into our classroom to read some books to us.
Thank you to all the parents who came and read to us. The children loved reading lots of books!

We worked in small groups to choose a scene out of ‘The Highwayman’ poem. Then we decided which character we each were and freeze framed the scene.

We are reading Stone Age Boy and today we acted out some of the scenes. As you see, we had lots of fun!!

Our class novel is called ‘Stormbreaker’ by Anthony Horowitz.  Today, we read a chapter where the main character is asked to become a spy. We discussed all the pros and cons that he would face making his decision. We then took part in a ‘conscience alley’. The children had to whisper reasons for…

This afternoon, we walked around Scotforth so that we can make maps and write a guide book. 
 

In English we have been enjoying the traditional story - The Pied Piper of Hamlin. Today we imagined the scene in the town when the rats first arrived! 
 

In preparation for writing our story next week, we took part in a virtual children’s author workshop with Mikey Please. He told us all about the process of writing a children’s book and showed us lots of his illustrations. It was interesting to see the different stages it takes to write and…

Year 6 performed their play - The Tempest by William Shakespeare - to packed audiences yesterday and today.

In English we are reading the wonderful book, ‘The Street Beneath My Feet’ by Charlotte Guillain and writing our own explanation text about what can be found underground.  We have learnt about insects, burrowing animals, different types of rocks and mineral, the sewers (yuck!) and beautiful rock…

As part of our experience day for our English unit, Mrs Walsh brought her camper van to school so we could spend some time looking in it and comparing it to an old fashioned caravan. Gran, in our story, lived in a 1970’s caravan and it was called Gran-a-van. We were amazed at how much could be…