English

We have enjoyed our recent English learning based upon Shaun Tan’s ‘The Lost Thing’ book. After exploring his style and deepening our understanding of how we can manipulate grammar to […] […]

Our learning in English has related to how to write discussion and persuasion texts. This unit linked to our current learning in science so we have become Charles Darwin experts. […] […]

Haffydown have been extremely enthusiastic during their work on our current book Julian is a Mermaid and have shown a real enjoyment of their writing unit. They loved taking part in drama […] […]

Over the last couple of weeks in Danes Class, we have been enjoying Charles Dickens’ ‘Great Expectations’. Focussing on an extract in which Pip met Miss Havisham for the first […] […]

Raye Montague, a trail-blazing engineer, has been the focus of our English learning for Maths Week. We spent the week learning about her incredible achievements as well as the set-backs […] […]

This week we have really enjoyed reading ‘The Owl who was Afraid of the Dark’ by Jill Tomlinson. The story was a great follow on from learning about celebrations that […] […]

This some of this half term, Haffydown have been thoroughly enjoying our English unit based on the much-loved story The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. Through this colourful […] […]

In English, Puddlebridge Class have thoroughly enjoyed reading Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey. Through this text, we have developed our performance reading and writing skills – focusing on sentence structure, […] […]

We have already been very busy drawing and writing for many different purposes. Some of us are mark making in our role play, such as when we are pretending to […] […]

Earlier in the term, our English learning was based upon ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Dickens. With the eponymous character, Oliver, starting his life in a workhouse, we decided to look […] […]

Having spent a couple of days learning about William Shakespeare, today we explored the opening to his tragedy – Macbeth. We began our morning imagining we were on a bleak […] […]

Following on from our trip to the zoo we have written recounts about our day. Firstly we created maps of our journey through the zoo, remembering the order of the […] […]

We have been reading Julia Donaldson’s poem version of The Magic Paintbrush. This fits in with our geography topic on China, as it is based on a traditional Chinese folk […] […]

We have been enjoying Zana Fraillon’s beautiful ‘Wisp: A Story of Hope’ in our English learning. Her use of vocabulary and metaphors along with Grahame Baker-Smith’s breathtaking illustrations tell the […] […]

In English, Puddlebridge have been reading The Story of the Blue Planet by Icelandic writer Andri Snær Magnason. The story follows two adventurous children living on a planet where no […] […]

We have really loved this book and showcasing our acting and singing talents. […]

We have been learning so much about animals! Following on from our trip to the allotments to find out about local wildlife, we have been learning all about wildlife in […] […]

Shackadell loved spending time working on our World Book Day book – ‘Here we are’ by Oliver Jeffers. We thought about things we find in space, in the sea, on […] […]

We have started the new year with a BANG, CRASH and ZAP as we have been learning all about superheroes! We started off by reading ‘There’s a superhero in your […] […]

Today in ‘Drawing Club’ we drew some dragons after reading ‘Room on the broom’ by Julia Donaldson. After lunch, a very special visitor arrived in our classroom…Daisy the dragon!! We […] […]

In our English learning this week, we have been looking at the effect personification can have in poetry. After watching a virtual reality video in an underground station during an […] […]

We have been reading one of our favourite books ‘The Gruffalo’ by Julia Donaldson. We have created a 3D story maps to help us to retell the story. We also […] […]

We have been exploring lots of different books in our class already. We love drawing club and have been going on our own story adventures. We enjoy reading books during […] […]

Our English unit on explanation texts began with an in depth look at ‘Monsters: An Owner’s Guide’ by Jonathan Emmett and Mark Oliver. We loved reading this book! It’s a […] […]

To celebrate World Book Day this year, each class read The Invisible by Tom Percival. The book centres around very important themes, including poverty, gratitude, invisibility, community, empathy and hope. […] […]

We have learned about the journey of a letter. From when it is written by the sender right up until it has been read by the receiver. We have written […] […]

We have loved this book and have written our own instructions on how to wash a variety of different animals. […]

In English, we have enjoyed reading the touching story of the life of palaeontologist Mary Anning. We read two books: Stone Girl, Bone Girl and The Fossil Girl. This unit […] […]

We have been reading this book in our English lessons. Here is some of our lovely writing. We have looked at writing instructions, creating similes and retelling the story in […] […]

In English, we have written leaflets to provide essential information to anyone wanting to explore mountainous terrain. First, we needed to become experts ourselves; we did lots of reading from […] […]

This half term, we have been reading poems from Matt Goodfellow’s book, Bright Bursts of Colour. By looking at his poems, we have been able to explore a wide range […] […]

In English, Haffydown have been reading Robert Munsch’s ‘The Paper Bag Princess’. The story details the heroic adventures of Princess Elizabeth, who attempts to save Prince Ronald from a fearsome […] […]

To celebrate National Poetry Day, we started the day with a special assembly during which some of the adults shared some of their favourite poems. Each class then prepared a […] […]

This week, our learning in English has been focussed around Michael Rosen’s poetry collection called ‘On the Move’. We have been inspired by reading many of the poems which are […] […]

This Thursday is National Poetry Day and the theme this year is Refuge. Today, we talked about migration and some of the reasons why people might migrate. We choose the […] […]

In English, we are looking at Roman Myths. We will be developing our writing skills including experimenting with figurative language, varying sentence structure and how to use a range of […] […]

We have started reading this book in English and are really enjoying it. We have already produced some lovley pieces of work. […]

Today, we used a range of strategies to understand Shakespearian language. Once we were familiar with the extract from Act 1 Scene 3, we prepared a reading of the extract. In this […] […]

We are learning about China this half term. We can use an atlas to locate major cities and rivers. We are looking at bordering countries, seas and oceans. We are […] […]

We throughly enjoyed writing our own non-chronological reports about the imaginary planet, Pandora. These were inspired by the book ‘Planetarium’ by Raman Prinja. We published these in our own class […] […]

This half term, we have read Fly, Eagle, Fly!, a traditional African parable retold by Christopher Gregorowski. As part of our learning, we listened to a speech by Archbishop Desmond […] […]

Our book ‘Traction Man is here’ had a variety of supervillains that Traction Man had to defeat in order to save the day. In this lesson, the children imagined how […] […]

We have spent the last few weeks reading lots of fairy tales. We have been using pictures, puppets, props, story maps and small world figures to retell some familiar fairy […] […]

This half term, we have enjoyed reading The Watertower and Boy in the Tower. We have looked at how the authors create a sense of mystery and build suspense. When […] […]

We have been enjoying lots of Julia Donladson’s books and have had a fantastic time learning about the Gruffalo. We can join in with the familiar refrains and have used […] […]

Recently, we have been read Biscuit Bear by Mini Grey. While this is a picture book that is aimed at younger children, we used it as inspiration for writing our […] […]