Blog by Tag: Literacy

Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

We enjoyed a visit from the poet and author, Tony Peek today at school. He shared some of his poems and songs with us. We did some amazing fish dancing and laughed a lot. 

In Literacy today, we were looking at contractions from our list of Non Negotiables. We re-capped where we needed to put an apostrophe to replace missing letters. We played a game where we had to find our partner to match up the cards. One had the full words, the other had the contraction. You…

Well done to all the Year 6 children for their exceptional performance of Shakespeare’s The Tempest last night. What a testament to their teamwork and resilience in putting on such a great performance in such a short period of time. The acting was great and the singing, including a number of…

We enjoyed retelling the story and performing using stick puppets. 

In Year 5, we are loving reading "Shackleton's Journey" by William Grill and "Ice Trap" by Meredith Hooper. 

We have learnt all about explorers in Victorian and Edwardian times and the continent of Antarctica.  We have written letters to apply to become one of the crew onboard the Endurance,…

We had written our own version of ‘The Enormous Turnip’ for example ‘The Mega Carrot’. We read them to our buddies. The Year 6’s also read ‘ The Enormous Turnip’ to us but in French !!

Year 4 had their Cats drama lesson on Tuesday. They performed to two of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s songs, Macavity the Mystery Cat and Skimbleshanks the Railway Cat. They dressed up and made themselves masks to get into role.  During Macavity they paused to join in with the repeating lines. Using PE…

We retold the story of Jack and the Beanstalk by taking the different characters and changing our voices. We discussed the characters, setting and the events. 

We were very lucky to have Julia Donaldson read a traditional tale as part of our literacy topic this week. We also had an illustration masterclass from the famous illustrator, Axel Scheffler.

We finished our information texts all about wolves today.  We included a lot of great facts in them.  Here we are reading and evaluating each other’s work.

In literacy today we used a technique called ‘hotseating’ to find out more about the characters in our story.  The person in the hotseat today was a wolf from the pack.  They had to think carefully about how they felt on their long, dangerous journey and explain their feelings when they realised…