Year 4 English - Creating Dialogue
In English, Year 4 have been innovating the story of The Pied Piper and needed to change the characters in the tale, to make it our own version. We have been looking at dialogue and how the original characters spoke and acted with one another, to then transfer that to our own ideas and character creations. What better way to do it, than act it out?! We really enjoyed 'becoming' our characters and acting like they would, so we then could create dialogue for them.
Year 2 - English - Story Maps
Traditional Tales Get a Twist! Year 2 have been busy giving classic stories a fabulous facelift! We've been exploring traditional tales with a twist, proving that sometimes the villains might be nice and the heroes might be naughty! The children used story maps to plan their fantastic ideas: - What if Goldilocks was lovely and the bears were rude? - What if Jack climbed a giant sunflower instead of a beanstalk? - Could an evil wizard have caught Hansel and Gretel instead of a witch? Our amazing authors orally retold their tales and gave brilliant, constructive feedback to their classmates. Now the planning is done, it's time to write! Mrs. Cookson can't wait to read the finished stories at the end of the week.
Year 5 English - Beowulf
Our study of the legendary poem, Beowulf, has successfully inspired Year 5 to embark on writing their own heroic tales. Following the narrative structure of the original, students devoted today's lesson to deep design and planning. They used a combination of imaginative thinking, name generators, and online image searches to meticulously create and describe the key components of their legends: the vivid settings, the noble heroes, and the terrifying monsters.
Year 6: English - Analysing a Classic Text
In English lessons, we have been analysing the language features and grammatical techniques used in an extract of our classic text 'The Wizard of Oz'.
Year 2 - English - Independent Write
What a fantastic way to wrap up the half term! Year 2 has completely immersed themselves in writing an independent story inspired by the beautiful book, The Way Home for Wolf. Before putting pen to paper, the children researched different animals to weave into their tales and crafted brilliant plans to guide them through the writing process. This preparation paid off, as Mrs. Cookson was absolutely blown away by the huge improvement in writing stamina the class demonstrated. She is incredibly proud of their dedication and can't wait to curl up and read their imaginative final stories!
Year 1 - Independent Challenges
This week, Year 1 have been amazing doing Independent Challenges! They have worked on their phonics and mark making skills, have been practicing their letter formation with 'z', 'g', and 'l' and have been writing very silly sentences to work on their writing skills! Well done.
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Nursery - Computing - Pumpkin Creations
Our computing focus this week centered on building digital literacy skills using the draw function on Purple Mash. The main task involved the children creating their own pumpkin art. To support their work, the children were provided with a digital pumpkin outline and had three tangible pumpkins available as real-life references for colour and detail. The children carefully observed the colours of the real pumpkins and selected from the available digital pens. Some children then chose to tap the screen to create controlled dots on their pumpkins, while others used longer, sweeping movements to create lines or circles. This activity successfully encouraged careful observation and allowed the children to practice fundamental digital skills, like using a cursor or finger for purposeful mark-making on a screen.
Year 5 English - Independent Writing Based on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
Year 5 has successfully completed a comprehensive unit on The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe this term. Our focus was on narrative innovation, where students wrote independent stories that mirrored the structure of Lucy's first journey into Narnia. They significantly adapted the setting by replacing the lamppost with highly original objects (such as the Statue of Liberty or a Lamborghini). We innovated the character of Mr Tumnus by replacing him with a different mythical creature of our choice. This creative writing followed earlier work where children researched and wrote non-chronological reports on their own selected mythical creatures, including the Naga, Zenko, and Panotti, before placing them into their narratives.
Pre-School-Literacy-Painting A Monkey
In literacy this week our story is HUG. The story is about a monkey that can't find his mum and needs a hug. The children used their skills to create a monkey by painting their hands to print for the monkey body and painting the head to create their monkey. Painting is a wonderful way to support literacy development in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS). The connection is primarily through mark making, communication, fine motor skill development, and storytelling.
Nursery - Art - Literacy - Finger Painting
During our Art and Literacy lesson, the children explored autumnal coloured paints and learned a new technique using their fingers as their painting tool. The task focused on refined movements to develop fine motor control. The children were taught how to carefully dab one finger into the paint and then press it onto their paper, successfully creating a controlled dot or fingerprint. They worked with autumnal images that had designated white spaces, requiring them to select a colour and deliberately fill in the void using this specific finger-painting technique. While it was initially tempting for some to use their whole hand and "go wild" with the paint, the children did a brilliant job practicing this new, refined skill, demonstrating excellent self-regulation and control to create beautiful, textured autumnal pictures.
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Year 1: Independent Challenges
Year 1 have been working extremely hard this week in independent challenges. We have been building Sukkahs using lego, practicing our number formation, writing silly sentences, working on greater than, less than and equal to and putting our phonics skills to the test in our phonics matching game!
Year 2 - English - Features of Non-Fiction Texts
Year 2 - Non-Fiction Detectives! Year 2 have been learning about non-fiction texts, discovering that this type of writing is all about real and true facts! To explore this, we became detectives, moving around the classroom in groups to annotate pages from non-fiction books. The children were brilliant at spotting important features like headings, sub-headings, pictures, and exciting "Did You Know?" facts. This hands-on session helped us understand how non-fiction books are organised to help us learn!
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