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Writing Around ETPS
Over the past two weeks, in the build-up to half term, the children have been continuing to work hard on their writing. Let’s look across the school at what each year group has been working on. In our Annexe Provision, the children have been looking at retelling the story of The Paperman with their own twist. Pupils have been using various literary devices to help with their own version of the story, including: fronted adverbials, similes, expanding sentences by varying the clauses and rhetorical questions. Year Six are finally onto undoubtedly one of the most popular texts to write, an instructional text based on ‘How To Annoy Your Teacher’. Pupils have had the opportunities to come up with their own ‘creative’ ways to irritate those pesky critters, otherwise known as teachers. They have then been putting their cunning, plans into action by writing their own instructional text. Disclaimer: As it stands, no teachers have been hurt in the process… Year Five have been looking at Katherine Rundell’s The Explorer as their stimulus for writing. Only last week did they take part in an Experience Day whereby they had to construct their own raft to explore the challenges one might face if stranded in a jungle. After using their experience day to help them understand the challenges of being stranded, pupil have been stacking their sentences in preparation to write their own version. Year Four are looking at Ted Hughes’ Iron man and have completed experience days where pupils designed their own helpful robot, which is good for helping during everyday life, we have explored clips of the Iron man and made inferences and predictions about the main character wand what might happen in the story. Year Three have started looking ‘The Sound Collector by Roger McGough’. This poem is the stimulus for their own version of the poem based on colour. They have looked at the shape of the original poem and have now started to look at how they can change it and base their own version on colour. Year Two’s writing now is based on their science unit of Space. They have written a question and answer-based text about Tim Peake. Gathering facts from a text about his life achievements. The children have been understanding the importance of different question types, and how this can aid us in retrieving information and getting the most interesting responses from who they are questioning. Year One are looking at ‘How to use a Bee-Bot’ they have linked their English writing to their computing topic using the Bee-Bots and getting them to follow instructions. Children have been exploring putting instructions in the correct order and what happens if the instructions are not in the right order. Reception are looking at Lost and Found and are starting to structure their own words that would be suited to a story-style version. They have explore the story and retold it with a focus on the penguin and even naming their own one in class. This week in 4MR
“We read the Caravan on the Edge of Doom, it is funny and silly. I want to keep reading it!” Charlotte “I liked the live lesson about online safety because it was all about video games.” Nathan “The geography was really fun when we learned about earthquakes.” Ellie “I enjoyed our last dance PE lesson where we showed all of our moves from the whole half term, and it was all about volcanoes.” Ryan “Our swimming is really good, I am getting better and better!” Davey “I like doing our English, we are reading The Iron Man by Ted Hughes.” Ruby “I liked our maths meetings this week, especially as we now have a song to start it!” Pippa “I enjoyed computing this week. We got to explore FMS logo and Turtle academy.” Samuel. For our enrichment day in Year Six we further explored the history of the Ancient Greeks. For this, we first explored the geography of the nation, going on a virtual tour of the capital Athens to see the famous architecture which was build over two millennia ago! A favourite was the Parthenon, though we quickly realised our ancient Greek ancestors loved pillars. We then investigated the life and conquests of Alexander the Great, and how he led the Empire to great expansion (we figured that was what made him great after all!) and mapped out the locations he reigned over prior to his mysterious death. We made a shield in honour of his legacy. We followed these fact-finding lessons with more creative tasks. Firstly was a form of ‘Who Am I?’ which revolved around the Greek deities. This was followed by seeing some of the Greek mythical creatures, before we had the opportunity to make our own. Much fun was had across the course of the day; be sure to check out some of the creative costumes on our social media pages. Special shoutout to Pip the bear, whose costume was made at home by one of our Year Six pupils! Pupils and teachers are continuing to enjoy learning in maths using the Ark Maths Mastery Programme. We are using lots of manipulatives to help deepen our understanding of the maths we are learning; they are fun to use and really do help all pupils. We are also enjoying our Maths Meetings: a 15 to 20 minute session of maths which is separate to the maths lesson. In our Maths Meetings, we cover 4 or 5 areas of learning, each part is quick (3 or 4 minutes maximum) and delivered with speed of recall being the aim; they are definitely helping to develop our learning.
This week has been very busy in Y6; we have completed another round of Practise SATs papers, along with all the other Y6 pupils in the Osborne Cooperative Academy Trust. All our pupils demonstrated super resilience and have shown us the progress they continue to make in their learning as we work our way through the Y6 curriculum. We have also been really enjoying our PE lessons this half term: in dance we are using the Ancient Greek Olympics as our inspiration but are also using features of the modern Olympics, 6LC have particularly enjoyed watching the drumming from the Opening Ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics and incorporating this into their dance routines. In gym, we are working in 2s or 3s to create and perform a sequence involving shapes, balances and smooth transitions between the individual features of the sequence.
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