English

In English, we have started to read ‘Wolf Brother’ by Michelle Paver. We studied and learned the features of an opening chapter then used what we had learned to write our own opening to a Stone-Age story. Keep looking at the website as we will write the rest of the story later in the team. 

Every Friday is ‘spellings’ in Diamond Class and on the first Friday back, we were all revising spelling rules from the previous year.

We have learned how to up-level our work by adding expanded noun phrases, and by choosing specific topic related vocabulary. We watched clips from Oliver then wrote our own opening scenes using wonderful description. 

As part of our Jubilee celebrations, we all wrote letters to the Queen congratulating her for her Platinum Jubilee. We learned how to set out and write a formal letter and tried to use formal language. We then posted them.

We are waiting for our responses!

Diamond Class learned about the Queen’s speech and then wrote their own. They presented it to ‘Diamond Parliament’ just like they were the Queen. They had some great ideas for how to support the country!

After the Records Office visit, we travelled to the Millennium Library to learn how a library works to continue to develop our love of reading. Our recounts tell you all that we did and learned there.

In English Year 4 and 5 have been studying the narrative poem ‘The Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll with the intention of writing a non-chronological report about the animal called the Jabberwock.

We learned the features of a report and extracted all the evidence about the Jabberwock from the poem. We looked up facts from other animals and combined these to create our reports.

What do you think of our Jabberwocks? Would you enter the tulgey wood?

We all learned a range of poetry to perform at the class poetry festival. Some of us performed action poems, some of us performed rhyming poems and some of us performed free verse.

The class performed 2 poems together one with actions, Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth – Pam Eyres’ and one without actions ‘The magic of the mind – Simon Webster.’ We enjoyed learning to convey meaning when we couldn’t use any actions.