Blog by Tag: English

Class 12 have been working hard on their versions of The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

Here are some of their performances, we hope you enjoy!

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Today the school was buzzing with excitement as the children visited the free book shop in school to choose a selection of books to keep. Thanks to The Children's Book Project the school gave away over 500 books for children to enjoy at home. The children loved spending time browsing the different…

Today the school was buzzing with excitement as the children visited the free book shop in school to choose a selection of books to keep. Thanks to The Children's Book Project the school gave away over 500 books for children to enjoy at home. The children loved spending time browsing the different…

Today the school was buzzing with excitement as the children visited the free book shop in school to choose a selection of books to keep.

Thanks to The Children's Book Project the school gave away over 500 books for children to enjoy at home. The children loved spending time browsing the…

This week, Class 16 have been studying poetry, and looking at the poem: The Highwayman.

We have been thinking about rhythm and beats, and this is us working together and performing the poem as a class.

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Class 12 loved choosing from the fantastic choices of books at the book fair, with children wearing their Christmas jumpers!

Today the school was buzzing with excitement as the children visited the free book shop in school to choose a selection of books to keep.

Thanks to The Children's Book Project the school gave away over 500 books for children to enjoy at home.

The children loved spending time browsing the…

Today the school was buzzing with excitement as the children visited the free book shop in school to choose a selection of books to keep.

Thanks to The Children's Book Project the school gave away over 500 books for children to enjoy at home.

The children loved spending time browsing the…

Today in English, we looked at subordinate, conjunctions and clauses. We matched up the main causes with the subordinate clause.

Next, we identified the subordinate conjunction and manipulated the sentences, so the subordinating clause was at start. Because we had changed the sentences around,…

Children in class 16 have been working on improving their scary stories using peer assessment.  

Children used peer assessment to redraft their stories.  Well done class 16!

Mr Needham was very impressed with the efforts of children in class 15, who were working on their reading comprehension skills.  

Children read Theseus and the Minotaur and answer a variety of question types, including fact retrieval, inference, word meaning, summary and structure.  

Well…

Children in years 5 and 6 are always working on their reading fluency using Reading Plus.