writing in ks2

What a busy half term we’ve had! For their fiction topic, Year 3 were learning how to write suspenseful narratives, using skills like empty words and speech to show the characters’ feelings. David certain had a rollercoaster of emotions in this story! Year 4 have had a ball writing their persuasion pieces, from formal estate […]

Talk For Writing in reception

We have made story maps of our own and can retell the plot using them. We have also started changing our story. Today, the Little Red Hen planted some magic beans instead of corn and no-one wanted to help her climb the beanstalk!

Reception do research

We often share our learning and interests that we explore at home with our classmates. This pupil has found this book great fun!

When Science and Literacy unite!

Reception wrote postcards to ants using their knowledge of how they live to work out what their address might be. Then they used their phonics knowledge to try and work out how to spell the names of common insects that we know.

Understanding the World in Reception

We have been applying our maths knowledge to observe our ducklings by creating tallies of the amount of times that they eat or drink water.

What’s going on in writing?

This half term, Reception will be learning about developing character by looking at The Gingerbread Man. Does he ever get caught? Stay tuned to find out! Year 1 will be improving their descriptive writing by learning the Magic Porridge Pot. Will it ever stop?! Year 2 will be learning The Glass Cupboard, which will help […]

Poetry perfection

Move aside, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Keats! Our latest writing focus in Key Stage Two has been Poetry and from alliteration to personification, we have succeeded in being poetic sensations! Year 3 learned how to use alliteration and powerful vocabulary in their poems. I think this poem perfectly presents what a wonderful school St Margaret’s Lee […]

KS2 WRITING

Over the past few weeks, Key Stage 2 have been working hard on their writing, with some very exciting results. As it is now half way through the term, we have all reached the stage of our fiction ‘Hot Task’: the culmination of all of our memorising, story mapping, analysing, practising, emulating, and planning. Take […]

Friday snapshot of Reception

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Fred Talk!

Fred the frog has been helping us out today with our sounds. We even helped him by making words after he sounded them out!