Year 5 English - Drama Skills: Freeze Framing
Year 5 used drama skills to act out key parts of our novel: The Invention of Hugo Cabret. We freeze framed a part of the story, and then spoke our characters inferred thoughts out loud.
Pre-School- PD-Fine and Gross Motor Skills
The children take part in Write Dance to develop their fine and gross motor skills. Moving to music with the ribbons and making up and down movements building on muscle strength. The children move their body into position to hold their crayons to make the movements on to paper. Developing the skills they have just learnt through dancing.
Year 3 English - Identifying Features of A Story
In English Year 3 are enjoying reading the book, The Stone Age Boy. Using chromebooks they read the story in groups and worked together to identify the different features.
Year 6: English - Macbeth Character Descriptions
In English this week year 6 have been looking at the characters of Macbeth, and Lady Macbeth - then using what they have learnt to write effective character descriptions.
Reception - Phonics - ai as in Snail
Reception class have been working extremely hard during phonics and guided reading. Today the children learned a new digraph, ai as in snail. Every phonics session the children are given the opportunity to read and write words and phrases containing the phonemes they already know.
Year 4 - English
Year 4 English
Year 1 - English - The Gigantic Turnip
Year 1 began their unit on The Gigantic Turnip. They watched time lapse videos of a turnip growing from a seed into a vegetable. They also looked closely at the front cover of the book and wrote their predictions for the story .
Year 5 English - Persuasive Texts: Adverts to visit Darwen
Year 5 were lucky enough to have the opportunity to read our persuasive writing to a Brand Director at Merlin Attractions this week! We based our writing on some adverts for Legoland and Thorpe Park, and Nick from Merlin was really impressed with our understanding of how advertising works and was persuaded to visit Darwen by our fabulous emotive writing and our offers to book now!
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Year 5 English - Persuasive Texts: Adverts to visit Darwen
Year 5 were lucky enough to have the opportunity to read our persuasive writing to a Brand Director at Merlin Attractions this week! We based our writing on some adverts for Legoland and Thorpe Park, and Nick from Merlin was really impressed with our understanding of how advertising works and was persuaded to visit Darwen by our fabulous emotive writing and our offers to book now!
Year 5 English - Persuasive Texts: Adverts to visit Darwen
Year 5 were lucky enough to have the opportunity to read our persuasive writing to a Brand Director at Merlin Attractions this week! We based our writing on some adverts for Legoland and Thorpe Park, and Nick from Merlin was really impressed with our understanding of how advertising works and was persuaded to visit Darwen by our fabulous emotive writing and our offers to book now!
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Year 6: English - Persuasive Writing
In English, year 6 have been analysing examples of persuasive texts. We have been spotting the language features authors use to persuade the reader. LO: to discuss techniques used to persuade the reader.
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Year 4 English - Designing Villains
As part of our English unit, we have been designing our own villains to go into our innovated stories based on The Little Shoemaker. We used noun phrases to describe the villains and has great fun being creative!
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