Blog by Tag: English

Today was a big day for Year 6: the day we discovered the title of this year’s Shakespeare play. The story - The Tempest - was revealed through a morning of story telling and drama.

Year 6 took advantage of the sunshine this morning, to revise their SPAG knowledge in preparation for next week’s SATs. As well as practising our grammar and punctuation, we also got to work on our map-reading skills and had some exercise at the same time!

Today we had a great drama workshop. We learnt a poem about a budgie in a cage and made up some actions to go with it. Some of us were brave enough to perform the poem in front of everyone else!

Today, Year 4 started their English unit on classical poetry. We have been looking at the poems of TS Eliot in his book Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. The first poem is all about naming cats. According to TS Eliot, all cats should have 3 names including a secret one. We made cat badges…

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…