Blog by Tag: English

On Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th July, Year 6 performed their Shakespeare production, a modern retelling of The Tempest complete with music, songs and dance (as well as acting!).  We had been working very hard over the last few weeks, practising and making costumes and scenery.  The show was a…

This week Year 5 have been writing application letters for jobs at Hogwarts. On Tuesday the class acted as application panels and decided whether the letters were strong enough to be accepted for the jobs applied for.

We are focusing on instruction writing in Literacy this week so we made sandwiches and will then write up instructions for how we made them.

Year 1 made their own Non-fiction books about plants. We researched and found some interesting facts looking at the features of plants and what they need to grow. We even made our own glossaries!!!

In Year 6 this week we have been doing a variety of reading activities this week linked to World Book Day.  We have enjoyed sharing books with our Year 1 buddies and today we enjoyed a writing workshop with Frank English, a local author. He encouraged us to try to surprise our reader by using the…

For World Book Day, Y4 came to school dressed in their favourite book characters. The costumes were amazing! We have been designing book spines with the title of our favourite book and we have also taken part in 'Ring-a-Read'. We have had the chance to meet an author…

The children are working in pairs or individually to produce their own mini adventure.

We acted out Traction Man's adventures from the book 'traction Man is Here'

Year 6 led our Remembrance Assembly today. They recited the poem "For the Fallen", which was written during WW1 by Robert Binyon, who was originally from Lancaster.

Year 6 have been studying Lewis Carroll's classic poem, "Jabberwocky". We have enjoyed using our imaginations to work out what some of the nonsense words in the poem mean, and have created our own artwork based on our ideas. Finally, we learnt and performed the poem for Year 3, as part of their…