Blog by Tag: English

Year 5 had a visit from author Savior Pirot who was very entertaining with his stories and showed the children the five steps to successful story writing. 

This week, we performed our re-written modern versions of the highway man. 

We acted these out to the class.

This week in English Class 12 have been writing their own play scripts from the title Rain Ruins the Day!

In English, we have been learning about riddles. We wrote our own riddles.

Can you work out the answers?

Class 6 have been writing riddles in English. 

They listened to and guessed a lot of riddles, tried to outsmart their partners and then wrote their own. Remembering that they needed very general clues at the beginning and more specific clues at the end.

What do you think? Can you guess what…

In English class 6 have been reading The Pirates Next Door. 

The neighbours have been saying some very means things about the pirates and the pirates have been expressing how they feel. Pupils have been using their oracy skills to control their voices, using volume and expression to get their…

Today in English we peer assessed our work from yesterday.

We used a checklist to text mark and identify what our partners had done well in their instructions.

We used this to give them positive feedback and identify areas for improvement next time they write instructions.

Class 4 have been reading Handa’s Surprise in our English lessons. 

Today we practised taking it in turns to ask and answer questions about who took the fruit in our partners.

Today in our fluency lesson we practiced reading and re-reading our text to develop our reading fluency. 

We practiced moving around where we paused and what words we stressed to see how it affected our sentences. 

This week in English Class 12 are studying Balanced arguments. 

In groups they came up with for and against points. 

They then added conjunctions to build on and challenge the points. 

This was done orally and written. 

Class 11 enjoyed their visit to Armley Library.

We have been learning all about surviving in the rainforest in English. 

We have worked in pairs today to create a poster to showcase all of our knowledge.