Kinder

Year 1

In English this term our focus will be on persuasive writing (expositions). The children have engaged with examples of persuasive texts in shared reading, so that they can develop in their reasoning. Some of the texts we have enjoyed so far this term include 'The Day the Crayons Quit', 'Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus' and 'Hey, Little Ant'. We have learnt that persuasive texts include features such as time connectives, strong sentence starters and powerful words that help to bring your audience around to your point of view. Following opportunities for whole-class discussion and co-construction of persuasive texts, the Year 1 children are now developing more independence in their writing and it is very pleasing to see. Well done!

Year 2

This term Year 2 are writing procedures. The children had to build a block construction and then write the instructions for someone else to reconstruct their creation. 

During Home Learning, Year 4 completed a variety of writing tasks.

These included Narrative using a stimulus picture and also Poetry and Information Reports, connected to our English and Geography Units .

It was great to see such excellent efforts from the children!

Here are a few samples we would like to share.

Since returning to school, we have been working on adding dialogue to images from our new story, Rose Blanche, as there is very little dialogue within it. First we worked in groups to add speech bubbles, then we individually turned the speech bubbles into dialogue, working hard on the punctuation and word choice to clearly convey the thoughts and feelings of the characters involved. After that we worked as groups again to combine and BUMP UP our ideas into one super dialogue, again with the emphasis on punctuation, word choice and word order. We think we did a spectacular job! (And so did Miss Payton and Ms McGann)