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Category Archives: Writing

Stunning published non fiction reports on display in Y3\S

Monday, 22nd Mayby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Children in Class 4 have been super happy to see their finished pieces on our classroom displays. Children have worked really hard to ensure their Learning has been presented and […]

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Story openers in Class 3

Friday, 28th Aprilby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Class 3 this week have produced some outstanding story openers. They have worked so hard on producing writing that shows the reader rather than telling the reader what has happened. […]

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Creating our own extended metaphors in Y6!

Wednesday, 25th Januaryby missdungworth Leave a comment

Year 6 have been putting their knowledge of extended metaphors into practise in Literacy today. We analysed a video of a railway train, similar to the ones evacuees would travel […]

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Y6 use drama to explore thoughts and feelings

Thursday, 19th Januaryby Leave a comment

This week, we have started our new unit of Literacy. In preparation for our narrative writing, we have been learning about evacuees and the diverse range of experiences the children […]

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Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Excellent writing in Y3S

Monday, 16th Januaryby Leave a comment

Y3S have worked incredibly hard to improve their publishing skills. The children have enjoyed writing their setting description based on a visit to Meadowhall which simulated a chapter from Meet […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion

Tuesday, 6th Decemberby Abigail Miller Leave a comment

Year 6 have used ‘Talk 4 Writing’ to orally rehearse the process of coastal erosion. By using our team working skills, we first sequenced each step of the process and […]

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Kahoot with Mr Hood

Friday, 25th Novemberby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Children in Y6 have been learning about erosion and the Kahoot quiz was used to test our knowledge before our writing. Everyone loves a quiz!

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Extended Writing in Year 4

Thursday, 24th Novemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

We are so proud of our Class 5 writers this week! Take a look at their wonderfully emotive, finished letters from Jim Jarvis

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Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]

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Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Leave a comment

Our lucky Year 6 children are participating in a project exploring creative reading and writing with help from mentors from Pontefract College, working in partnership with Wingfield Academy. Each week, […]

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Peter Thorpe – in Year 5, we have blast off!

Wednesday, 9th Novemberby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

Peter Thorpe is known for his art work that features rockets and elements of space. This week, we have continued our learning all about space-themed abstract art. We focused on […]

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Class 1 fairy tale poetry

Friday, 4th Novemberby swhittingtonn Leave a comment

In Class 1 we have been learning all about Hans Christian Andersen and all of the fabulous fairy tales he wrote. We have written and performed some poetry about him […]

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‘Author of the week’ in Y3

Friday, 7th Octoberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Every week in Class 4, Miss Sare chooses a new member of the class to be this week’s author of the week. Their job is to take home and look […]

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T4W In Class 4

Thursday, 29th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Children are at the final stage of their narrative writing and are beginning to think about writing their story ending. To help us put ideas into sentences, we are starting […]

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Improving Presentation in Class 5

Thursday, 29th Septemberby mrsgraham1 Leave a comment

Class 5 have been working especially hard on their presentation over the past few weeks, and we are already seeing a huge improvement! Take a look … Well done, Class […]

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Florence’s Hospital T4W

Monday, 26th Septemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

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 […]

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Excellent writing in year 2

Tuesday, 20th Septemberby Miss Brown Leave a comment

Over the last couple of weeks, Class 3 have been working on producing excellent writing. This doesn’t mean that it has to be perfect but it does mean that it […]

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Excellent writing in Y3S

Friday, 16th Septemberby Miss Sare Leave a comment

Over the last few weeks, Class 4 have been working on completing learning that is excellent. We have discussed that this doesn’t necessarily mean perfect but something which the children […]

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Class 2 Comparing numbers

Thursday, 8th Septemberby mrchunter1 Leave a comment

Class 2 combined maths with PE to help us learn how to compare numbers. We introduced the > and < signs with a catchy song. After, we went outside and […]

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Class 3’s talk for write

Friday, 15th Julyby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Class 7 begin their balanced arguments

Wednesday, 29th Juneby Miss Newton-Smith Leave a comment

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 […]

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Computing, Literacy, Oracy, Philosophy for Children, PSHCE, Writing, Year 5

A Disgusting Sandwich

Tuesday, 14th Juneby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Bolsover Castle Recount

Tuesday, 22nd Marchby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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 […]

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Greater Depth Writing

Thursday, 10th Februaryby Mr Williams Leave a comment

Our Greater Depth Writing group have been writing some amazing pieces linked to their topic about WWII. Children have brought the evacuation of children to life with their words.

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Class 3’s Talk for Write

Monday, 10th Januaryby Miss Brown Leave a comment

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. […]

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