Year 6 (Class 17) - English - The Highway Man

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Well done to class 17 for writing exceptional poems about The Highwayman. We redrafted some of our rhyming couplets before performing them for a class poetry slam! 

Congratulations to our winners:

  • 1st place- Nina
  • 2nd place- Bryan
  • 3rd…

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Year 6 (Class 16) - English - The Highway Man

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Class 16 have been reading the poem ‘the highwayman’.

Today we sounded out the syllables and then put them to a beat by either clapping or tapping the table.

There were lots of sore hands by the end of the lesson!

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Year 6 (Class 15) - Christmas Reading Area

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Class 15 enjoying reading in the Christmas reading area.

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English Reading and Phonics

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Year 5 (Class 15) - Christmas Reading Area

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Class 15 enjoying reading in the Christmas reading area.

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English Reading and Phonics

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Year 2 (Class 6) - English - Conjunctions & Sentences

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In class 6, we have revisited conjunctions in English. We worked with our talk partners to write sentences with and, but and because.

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Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Book Recommendation

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Here is a book recommendation from a pupil in class 9.

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Year 3 (Class 9) - English - Editing

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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. 

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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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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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Year 5 (Class 13) - English - Reading Plus

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

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English Reading and Phonics

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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. 

Category: Year 3

English

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