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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 - Speeches
Class 14 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?
Curriculum - English - Book Reviews
Class 12 have had a fantastic world book day, we have made our own book reviews about our favourite stories.
Curriculum - English - World Book Day 2024
All classes in school have made a fantastic effort for world book day, we have loved seeing everyone’s costumes.
Curriculum - English - Library Session
Class 6 are really enjoying their library sessions!
Curriculum - English - The Kindest Red
Children in class 5 have been reading the story The Kindest Red. They have thought about kindness and have worked together to organise different words associated with being kind. They focused on the Social and Emotional strand of the Oracy Framework and worked hard to take turns to contribute. They used stem sentences such as 'I think this word means ....... because......' to articulate their ideas.
Curriculum - English - Summarising Texts
In English, class 6 have been learning how to summarise a text. We looked at the most important information in familiar texts and used it to write a short summary.
Curriculum - English - Word Tiers & Vocabulary
This week in class 9 we have been thinking about word tiers and vocabulary linked to the Stone Age. We worked in trios to discuss and sort words into the correct word tiers.
Curriculum - English - Non Fiction Text
Today we looked at pages from a non fiction text. We worked together to match the text to the correct heading. We then read the information and wrote notes . We will use our notes to write a non fiction text about The Great Fire of London.
Curriculum - English - Persuasion
Class 11 have been thinking about how we can be persuasive. We imagined we were trapped on a deserted island about to be rescued by a boat. The captain could only take 1 group of people who had a specific job. There were teachers, politicians, entertainers, judges, doctors and scientists. They had to persuade the captain to take them with them. The children then presented their arguments to the class. There were no clear winners, although Mr Horsey was leaning towards the teachers.
Curriculum - English - Voice Over Videos
In English lessons, year 5 and year 6 have researched, planned and written voice overs to explain why something is happening. They worked in groups to either answer the question 'why do we need exercise?' or 'why do teachers need coffee?' They had lots of fun doing this and came up with some great voice overs!
Curriculum - English - Winter Poems
Year 1 have been learning some winter poems. We have made up our own actions and performed one for you. We hope you love them!
Curriculum - English - Library Reading Time
Class 8 enjoyed hearing Mr. Needham read one of his favourite stories - We were amazed at the disgusting spaghetti that looked like worms that the twits ate…we’ll all be looking out for any horrible food in teacher’s beards from now on!
Curriculum - English - Conjunctions & Sentences
In class 6, we have revisited conjunctions in English. We worked with our talk partners to write sentences with and, but and because.
Curriculum - English - Editing
Today we worked on our editing and redrafting skills. First we worked in pairs to edit a piece of work. Then we used the skill we had learnt to improve our own writing.
