Florence’s Hospital T4W
In class 2 we have been learning about setting descriptions. We decided to describe the hospital Florence Nightingale visited in Germany. We focused on adding adjectives to describe and conjunctions […]
Category Archives: Oracy
Drama in Year 4
Class 5 had a fantastic morning today, acting in role to explore the character, Jim Jarvis … We thought carefully about our facial expressions and body language as we acted […]
Year 5 Astronaut Training Day
Today, the children in Year 5 competed a range of resilience challenges during their astronaut training day. The children wrote postcards and asked questions about the unknown about different planets […]
Class 3 – Future Aspirations
Today class 3 came to school dressed as a famous person. Children dressed as musicians, actors and sports people. We spoke about what being famous meant to us and the […]
T4W in Year 6 – The Giants’ Necklace
At the beginning of transition, the children in Y6 were introduced to the short novel ‘A Giant’s Necklace’ by Michael Morpurgo, which follows a girl named Cherry who’s ambition is […]
P4C in Year 6
During our transition in Y6, we have begun to learn about plastic pollution and how this can damage our environment, especially our oceans. We were introduced to the “Place for […]
Class 3’s talk for write
In literacy today we looked at how we could edit and improve our writing. We added in adjectives and interesting vocabulary to make our setting description more exciting for the […]
Year 5 – Designing and measuring rockets using perimeter
During transition, the children in Year 5 have been using and applying their maths learning and deepening their thinking using perimeter. Using their prior knowledge of measurement, the children have […]
Y3S – Inputting and presenting data
Today Class 4 worked in pairs to input some primary data which we collected from each other and then presented it through a pie chart on Google sheets. The data […]
Class 2 Talk 4 Write
This week class 2 have started learning about talk 4 write. We started the lesson by drawing pictures to represent words. We then progressed onto adding actions to our pictures. […]
P4C – Something Else
We had a fantastic first P4C today in our class! We read our transition text, ‘Something Else’ as the stimulus, and generated lots of philosophical questions about the themes of […]
Class 7 begin their balanced arguments
Before transition to Year 6 begins, the children in Year 5 begin their balanced arguments by engaging in the debate, ‘Is social media a good thing? There were some extremely […]
Class 8 use their oracy skills to debate!
In our Literacy session today, Class 8 made a great start to their new unit of balanced arguments by engaging in the debate: “Is social media a good thing?” We […]
A Disgusting Sandwich
In class 3 we have started a new unit of work on instructions. Our instructions are all based around a book called The Disgusting Sandwich. Today we started to plan […]
Class 2 Singing in French
Today class 2 have been learning how to tell the weather in french. We started with some word matching games and progressed onto singing a weather song in french. We […]
Story Spoons on the Green Screen!
Year 4 took their drama learning to the next level today, using the story spoons to conduct their eye-witness interviews on the green screen! Take a look at their fantastic […]
Eye-Witness Interviews in Drama
Year 3 & 4 have become journalists this week, preparing for writing a newspaper report about the outbreak of plague in Eyam … In Drama today, children interviewed eye-witnesses for […]
The True Story of The 3 Little Pigs
Everyone has heard the story of the 3 Little Pigs, but have you heard the True Story? We have been using Talk for Writing to orally retell the story. Watch […]
Using and creating spreadsheets and data in Year 5
During our computing sessions in our ICT suite, the children in class 7 have been using excel this week to create spreadsheets and present key data about the characters from […]
T4W all about the Digestive system!
Class 5 have had lots of fun recently learning all about the Digestive System and today we used Talk For Writing to retell all the steps that take place. First, […]
Bolsover Castle Recount
Today in literacy we have started writing our recount for our visit to Bolsover castle. We have used talk for write to begin to learn our opening paragraph. We have […]
Class 2 Dinnertime Talk for Write
P4C in Year 5 – recycling and caring for animals and sea creatures
This week, children in Year 5 have focused on recycling and the effects of this on our school, at home, the wider community and the planet. During our P4C session, […]
Using drama to explore character thoughts and feelings
Year 5/6 have made a great start in their Literacy unit by using freeze frames within drama to explore our characters thoughts and feelings from our class book, Treason. We […]
Class 2 Non-fiction talk for write
This week class 2 have been learning about non-fiction texts and their features. We are going to be creating a non-chronological report about castles. Our talk for write is our […]
Video Editing in Year 4
This week, we’ve been creating our very own TV documentaries all about the Stone Age, in preparation for writing a non-chronological report next week. The children have used their oracy […]
Class 3 Performance Poetry
This week we have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words. We created actions to perform a poem called There is a dragon in my classroom. […]
Class 2 performing poetry
This week class 2 have been learning about poetry. We have been focusing on rhyming words and how to perform a poem. We separated into groups and independently created our […]
Class 3’s Talk for Write
In literacy we have been working in small groups to create a story opened for the story The Tunnel. Children focussed on using expanded noun phrases to describe the tunnel. […]
Year 5 begins ‘hot seating’ as we are introduced to the characters in the book…
As Year 5 begin their new topic learning about the Elizabethans and Tudors, we begin studying our new class text ‘Treason’ (by Berlie Doherty). The children carefully created questions to […]
Year 6 Drama
As part of our literacy this week we have been learning some drama techniques while learning about the start of WWII. We have used freeze frames and focused on expression […]