School Blog: English

This week, Year 3 have started reading a new book called The Secret Lake by Karen Inglis. We have been introduced to many different characters…

This week we were challenged to write a narrative based on The Clockwork Tower, a video on the Literacy Shed. It’s a lovely story so…

This week, we were challenged to create our own dragon design and then write an information text based on it. First, we listened to…

  Year 2 were very busy bees last week, finding out about why these stripy insects are so important and how we can help…

Last week, Year 5 were set the challenge of writing a persuasive letter by Mrs Manston and Mrs Watson. This was based on the animation…

Well Kingsleigh, what an inventive lot you are!  I challenged you to read in an unusual place and you have well and truly risen to…

We have seen some fabulous working coming in from Year 5 over the past few days and last week. We still haven’t heard from all…

To start off our Ancient Greece topic in Year 5, we have been exploring poetry. First, we looked at a variety of poems and identified…

We are writing a narrative in Year 6 as part of our, ‘Preserving The Land of Neverbelieve’ topic. The children have been learning a text…

As part of our hook for our ‘Yo Ho Ho’ topic we went on a treasure hunt! First, we found a map in our classroom…

This half term, Year 2 have been learning the text map, ‘How To Train A Dinosaur.’ The children were very surprised to return to their…

Year 3 have been studying poetry. We have been focussing our learning around, ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. We realised the lines, ‘the…