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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Year 2 - English - Instructions
In Year 2 we have been writing our instructions for our invented playground games and started to plan our independent write on how to wash our hands.
Reception Class -Stick Man
This week, Reception Class have been reading the story of Stick Man. The children have really enjoyed the book, joining in with repeated words and phrases. The children have been collecting and decorating sticks, making their own stick person. They have also used playough to represent the Stick Man and different characters from the story.
Year 1 - English - Using Envoys To Communicate Facts
Year 1 consolidated their knowledge about Seasonal Weather by making posters. Later, they sent an envoy from each team to gather further facts about weather in each season. They practised oral rehearsal of facts during this activity ready for their writing later in the week.
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Year 4 English - Character Thoughts and Dialogue
This week in English, we have been continuing our learning about The Little Shoemaker. We have been working hard on using adverbs to start sentences, and we also thought about the difference between thoughts and speech. The children did a fantastic job or inferring the character's speech and thoughts in different ways!
Reception - Exploring Our World - A Leaf Scavenger Hunt
As a part of our "Exploring The World" Unit and this week's Literacy theme on the book "The Leaf Man," Reception class went on a leaf scavenger hunt. The children worked in pairs and had clip-boards with different leaf images to tick. They were brilliant at describing the colours and shapes of their leaves.
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