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At St Bartholomew’s, children are taught writing skills through studying a range of both fiction and non-fiction texts including teacher produced models.
In Early Years and Key Stage 1, children are encouraged and supported to learn texts by heart, before trying to innovate them and gradually apply more independent changes to the model until they can write freely with confidence. In addition, in Key Stage 1, picture books and topic work are used as a stimulus for writing.
In Key Stage 2, children are taught to write through Novel Study and links are made to non-fiction texts. All of their writing is inspired by texts and they have an equal balance between fiction and non-fiction texts. Challenging texts are chosen to ensure that children have an excellent model for their own writing.
Curriculum - English - Key Documents
Curriculum - English - Useful Links
Curriculum - English - Library Time
We love our library time. We share our favourite bits of the books we’ve read and give recommendations. We sometimes keep the books we like so much and read together during the session.
Curriculum - English - London Landmarks
In English we have been learning about London Landmarks. Today we found out that Big Ben’s clock face is 7 metres in diameter, and each number is 60cm long. To understand the size of the clock face we went outside with a trundle wheel. We measured a 7m diameter and made a human clock face. The children couldn’t believe the size of the clock.
Curriculum - English - World Book Day 2025 (Y2)
For World Book Day year 2 looked amazing! They dressed up themselves and potatoes as their favourite book characters. We had a workshop where we had to work out which of our spies were the culprits. To do this we had to work in groups and solve reading problems. Luckily class 6 worked out who the tricky tricksters were and solved the mystery. The afternoon was filled with activities, creating our own puppets, book covers, masks, selfies and much more. We had an amazing time and can’t wait until next year.
Curriculum - English - Visualisation Activity
Class 15 are continuing to read Holes. Children enjoyed discussing chapter 20 and giving their thoughts on the Warden and how she treats the children and Mr Sir. Children also completed a visualisation activity - visualising what the inside of the warden’s cabin looked like.
Curriculum - English - World Book Day 2025
Classes 9 and 10 had a fantastic time looking at clues in our book day workshop.
Curriculum - English - Descriptive Writing
Class 15 have been working extremely hard writing a setting description based around Holes. Children used their plans, peer opinion and thesaurus’s when writing. Mr Needham was very impressed with their dedication and drive. Well done class 15!
Curriculum - English - Spellings
Class 12 were introduced the their spellings for the week. Children looked at the rules for words ending in ity and then practised spelling the words in their spelling books.
Curriculum - English - Author Visit (Y3)
Today class 7 had a visit from, Marie Basting, a children's author. We got to meet Tyson the teabag and learn about her stories. We then started to plan our own time travel stories. We had chance to read our stories to the class an receive feedback from the author.
Curriculum - English - Winter Poem
Class 4 have enjoyed learning a poem all about winter animals and performed it using actions.
Curriculum - English - Handwriting
Class 13 have been working hard on developing their handwriting! Children are making progress and some children have achieved pen licences! Well done!
Curriculum - English - Relative Clauses
Class 14 worked in table groups to form expanded sentences using relative clauses, coordinating and subordinating conjunctions. This is in practice for writing their biographies next week.
Curriculum - English - Speeches
Year 5 and year 6 have written speeches in the character of Winston Churchill persuading the British public to evacuate their children. Here is the nesting process where the children practiced performing.
Curriculum - English - Bonfire Night
Class 3 and 4 have been learning all about Bonfire Night this week in English. We talked about the different things we can see on Bonfire Night and then wrote a class poem about these things. We then performed our poems to each other. Well done class 3 and 4!
Curriculum - English - Reading Plus Work
Class 16 are enthusiastically using Reading Plus to aid their reading fluency and their comprehension. Mr Needham was very impressed with the effort and dedication displayed by the children.
Curriculum - English - Formal & Informal Language
Class 16 have investigated the differences between formal and informal language using a variety of sources, including a speech delivered by Winston Churchill.
Curriculum - English - WW2 Non-Chronological Reports
Class 14 have been writing non-chronological reports on WWII take a look at some of our final pieces.
Curriculum - English - Poetry (Benjamin Zephaniah)
Today we performed our own poetry in the style of Benjamin Zephaniah. We thought about our audience and and tried to speak confidently.
Curriculum - English - Kings & Queens Day
Class 6 have thoroughly enjoyed Kings and Queens day. We have designed and made crowns to suit our royal status. Become knights creating shields, swords and masks so that we can defend our castles. We designed a medieval banquet including meals of swan, turtle soup, veal, gosling and sturgeon. The children were appalled by the food choices and how they used stale bread as a plate and ate with their hands. To finish the day the children made split pin knights and princesses while they discussed what they enjoyed most about the day.
Curriculum - English - Sentence Types
Today the children in class 5 were investigating different sentence types in English. They worked in teams to identify statements, questions, exclamations and commands using sentences from the story of Rapunzel.
Curriculum - English - The Highway Rat
In English, year 1 have been reading The Highway Rat by Julia Donaldson. In our areas of provision, we designed and made masks that The Highway Rat could wear.
Curriculum - English - Author Visit (Tom Palmer)
Today class class 14 were lucky enough to meet the author Tom Palmer! Tom came into school to inspire children to read and maybe even become a famous author themselves. Tom told the children about his journey to becoming an author and how he had to really believe in himself and be resilient through the publishing process. It took Tom 20 years to get his first book published and now he has written 64! His books have war, football and running themes- all keen interests of Tom’s. The children thoroughly enjoyed the workshop led by Tom.
Curriculum - English - Descriptive Text
In English, class 6 have been using descriptive vocabulary. We have written expanded noun phrases and similes about the fish in our class text, The Secret of the Black Rock.
Curriculum - English - Greek Myth Play
This week, class 13 have written and performed Greek Myth play scripts. We had a winning group of budding young actors. Check out the winning video!
Curriculum - English - Exclamation Marks
This week in English we have been learning about exclamation marks. We have been adding the correct punctuation to the sentences and then using different tones of voice to read the sentences.
Curriculum - English - Riddles
The children have enjoyed looking at riddles this week, the children wrote their own pirate riddles and today they performed them. They were brilliant some were very tricky.
Curriculum - English - Fluency Skills
Today we practiced developing our fluency skills. We focused on expression and we marked each other using our fluency scale.
Curriculum - English - Pirate Feelings
In English we are looking at the story “the neighbours next door” today we focused on the physical strand of the oracy frame work. We thought about how the pirates are feeling used a sentence stem to structure our sentences and performed them to the class. The class then had to guess which pirate we were. We had lots of fun acting like pirates.
Curriculum - English - Library Story Time (C14)
A lovely afternoon in the library for class 14, where Mr Waters read us a story all about Harriet Tubman. Harriet’s story shows us how strong she was and why she inspired so many people to stop slavery. Thank you Mr Waters.
Curriculum - English - Performing a Radio Play
Here are class 13 performing a radio play, using their expressive voices.
Curriculum - English - Phonics Boom!
The children have enjoyed practising reading real and nonsense words by playing 'Phonics BOOM!'.
Curriculum - English - The Pirates Next Door
In english, class 6 have begun exploring a new text this week; 'The Pirates Next Door'. We have started by working in groups to sequence the story.
Curriculum - English - Jack & The Beanstalk
In english we have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk. We thought of adjectives to describe Jack and then wrote sentences about him.
Curriculum - English - Poetry Workshop
KS2 have been attending a poetry workshop. As part of this, we had to make ourselves into different objects to get our creativity flowing. Can you guess what objects we made?
