Year 4 (Class 12) - English - Library Story Time

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This morning class 12 visited the library to listen to Mr Needham reading ‘The Twits’ by Roald Dahl.

We had the opportunity to look at what has fallen out of Mr Twits beard and to look at the ‘wormy spaghetti’. 

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English

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Island Descriptions

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After the visit from the author Daniel Ingham-Brown last week, class 13 drew their island they had written their descriptions of.

Here are a couple of fantastic examples:

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English

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Reading Plus

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Haider, Mayedah and Darasimi have achieved awards from Reading Plus- well done!

Category: Year 5

English Phonics and Reading

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Reading Plus

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Class 13 are developing their fluency and comprehension skills during their Reading Plus sessions in school. 

As you can see from the videos the reading window encourages them to read at a certain pace, this increases/ depending on the ability of the child. 

After they have read they then…

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Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Book Recommendations

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Today we had our fortnightly library visit.

We talked about the books we had read and whether we would recommend them to others. 

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English

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Year 4 (Class 10) - English - Writing

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It has been lovely watching class 10 to support each other while editing their work. We talked about how we each have different strengths and how we can support each other’s learning.

We then helped each other add expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to our writing, as well as checking…

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English

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Year 3 (Class 10) - English - Writing

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It has been lovely watching class 10 to support each other while editing their work.

We talked about how we each have different strengths and how we can support each other’s learning. We then helped each other add expanded noun phrases and fronted adverbials to our writing, as well as checking…

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English

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Year 6 (Class 17) - English - Author Visit

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Thank you to Daniel Ingram-Brown who came to school and did a spooky, scary workshop with our year 5 and 6 children in preparation for their scary stories.

We had so much fun making up our creatures with you and hearing all about your new books.

Many of us got them signed!

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English

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Year 1 (Class 4) - English - Poetry

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Class 4 have been continuing with their poetry unit.

Today they created their own sound poems.

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English

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Library Story Time

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This week class 13 have had their story time in the library with Mr Waters.

The story was about a man that walked between two towers, they discussed a how courageous he was.

The children loved joining in with props and acting out the story.

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English

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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Word Mats

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Today in English class 13 the children have been creating word mats for their scary story writing.

They have loved ‘stealing’ words and phrases from various scary stories we have read. 

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English

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Year 6 (Class 16) - English - Author Visit

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This week, year 5 and 6 had a great time when the author Daniel Ingram-Brown came and visited.

He spoke to class 16 about scary stories and we began writing our own character and scary story as a class.

Category: Year 6

English

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