Kindergarten

This week the children wrote about what they did on the weekend without any assistance from myself.

Wonderful work Kindergarten. Kindergarten have learnt 12 sounds so far and are using them extremely well in the writing tasks.

Year 1

Year 2

This term with the help of Mrs Adams, Year 2 have been focusing on how we can expand our vocabulary to improve our word choices and our writing. We have been learning about Tiered vocabulary and how we can use more Tier 2 words in our writing to make it more interesting. Below are some writing samples using the first three ‘Tier 2’ words that we were explicitly taught. Miss Payton and Mrs Adams are so proud of how our vocabulary is growing and how we are becoming very clever ‘word wizards’. See if you can guess what the three words are, after reading our writing!

Year 3 & 4 - Stage 2

In Stage 2, we have been learning how to write persuasive texts in order to convince someone to think about a topic in a certain way. We have looked a lots of examples and identified what makes some pieces of writing good, and what makes some pieces of writing great, and have been trying to use these in our writing at school and our writing at home.

We have focussed on the introduction and here are some group examples of our efforts.

Year 5/6 - Stage 3

In Stage 3 this term we have been exploring persuasive texts. We have been learning about the structure of a persuasive text and the importance of supporting an opinion with evidence. We explored persuasive devices such as rhetorical questions, emotive language, personal pronouns, high modality words, exaggeration, alliteration and the rule of three. We use devices in our writing to convince the reader to believe our opinion. We were given the topic ‘Homework Should be Mandatory for All Students.’ As a class, we brainstormed reasons for and against the topic and discussed evidence we could use to support our arguments. We selected our side of the argument and wrote a persuasive text.  We enjoyed trying to convince our teachers that homework should or should not be mandatory! Have a look at some of our writing!