The Y6 Oracy and Reading Project returns!
This afternoon, our Y6 have welcomed back their mentors from Pontefract College as we explore oracy in our final module of ‘The Oracy and Reading’ project. We have worked alongside […]
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Creating our own extended metaphors in Y6!
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 […]
Y6 use drama to explore thoughts and feelings
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 […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
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 […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
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 […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
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 […]
Y6 T4W – Coastal erosion
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 […]
Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing
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, […]
Y6 Wingfield Project – Creative Reading and Writing
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, […]
Class 1 fairy tale poetry
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
We’re off to … make a biscuit
In Little Acorns we have been reading the story ‘We’re off to see the wizard’ we have drawn our favourite characters. We then decorated biscuits to look like our favourite […]
Filming in Class 4
Throughout this terms topic, year 3&4 have been learning about the outbreak of the plague in Eyam. To help us understand what that might have been like, we have interviewed […]
Fairytale crafts
In Acorns and little acorns we have been learning about fairytales and the characters in the stories. We wanted to immerse ourselves into the stories so we created character masks. […]
Sharing stories in the sunshine
We’ve had a fantastic time sharing stories in the sunshine in Little Acorns today. We love to share stories and had a lovely time sharing some of our favourite books […]
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 […]
Y5/6 create digital ‘Word Clouds’ in Literacy
Upon our return to school this week, the children in Class 7 and 8 have been exploring narrative writing in our Literacy sessions. We will be writing our very own […]
Y5/6 Research about Tudor Life!
In our Literacy session, Y5/6 have continued researching all about Tudor life and then had the opportunity to share our findings! We have used our questioning and researching skills to […]
Y5/6 Punctuation ‘Kahoot!’ quiz
Children in Y5/6 have been putting their knowledge of punctuation to the test today during our Kahoot! quiz. During our lesson, we added punctuation (such as commas, full stops and […]
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 […]
Using ‘Hot-seating’ to explore thoughts and feelings in Class 8
During our Literacy session today, we used ‘hot-seating’ as a drama technique to explore thoughts and feelings of characters in our new class book ‘Treason’. At the beginning of the […]
Class 4 Talk for Writing
In literacy this week, class 4 have created and rehearsed a Talk for Writing to make their own set of instructions. Following our topic of ‘Into the Forest’, our writing […]
The Great Fire of London workshop
Yesterday Key Stage 1 children were fortunate enough to take part in a drama workshop all about The Great Fire of London. We explored some key facts about the events […]
Dragon poems from Y5M
Just before Easter, Class 7 researched and wrote dragon and Viking poems in a variety of styles, such as haikus and cinquains. Have a look at their research, fabulous writing […]