Writing at ETPS

Writing Across Our School: 
Another busy week of writing is happening across east Tilbury – let’s take a look at what each year group has been up to this week! 
Reception: 
These impressive children have been focussing on the book Perfectly Norman by Tom Percival, children have been sharing words with Grandma Fantastic and as a class, they have been verbally feeding back their ideas and have been ‘chotting’ as a class. Using their chotted ideas, the children have been creating their sentences, making sure to include their ‘wow’ words! 
Year 1: 
Our wonderful Year Ones have been focusing on creating reports. They have been exploring what makes a report and they have had to then create their own report based on teddy bears. The children have been chotting their ideas down and sharing them as a class; they have then gone onto form their own sentence stacks using their inspirational ideas. Miss Cosgrove even informed me that they were creating subheadings using alliteration, breathtakingly brilliant Year One! 
Year 2:  
The fabulous children in Year Two have been focusing on the story ‘The Crows Tale’. This week they began their independent write using a range of adjectives, similes and adding onomatopoeia to make our stories even more exciting. Some children had the chance to talk about their writing at the end of last week and they are really enjoying creating their own version. I can’t wait to read the final product of all their hard work! 
Year 3: 
Entering Key Stage 2 and we start with our hardworking Year Threes. They have been exploring the book ‘Stone Age Boy’ by Satoshi Kitamura and have been considering how they could recreate their own version of the story. Children have been working towards their own narrative by chotting and sentence stacking during lessons in the buildup, and they have been challenged to include similes and fronted adverbials in their sentences. Without a doubt, their work will be as impressive as a shooting star lighting up the night sky. 
Year 4: 
Our exceptional Year Fours have been writing a story about a lost thing based on Shaun Tan’s book – The Lost Thing. Children have been using sentence stacks, models, plans and their own ideas to create their own version; they have been putting a twist on the story by exploring what they could discover, where and what they would do with a lost being. They have been chotting ideas together and then stacking sentences in a build up to their independent piece. 
Year 5: 
The amazing Year Five pupils have been working hard to prepare for their independent write. They are writing a narrative based on the story One Small Step. It is an animated short about dreams, hopes and ambitions through tough times. They have chotted ideas, stacked sentences all in preparation for this final piece. The clip holds the message of never giving up and it resonates with all of us in school. 
Year 6: 

To our most experienced students: Year Six. Their work has been based On Shaun Tan’s ‘The Arrival’. This is a wordless graphic novel that tells the story of a man who leaves his homeland in search of a better life for his family. He travels to a strange, fantastical new world, filled with unfamiliar customs, creatures, and architecture. Pupils have been studying the emotions of various characters and foreshadowing of events. The children are writing their own narrative using the story, its values and messages as inspiration for theirs.