Reading into Writing: Blog items

Year 5 - Shakespeare Aspiring Actors

Date: 26th Mar 2024 @ 4:41pm

This term several of the year 5 pupils have been rehearsing for their performance of William Shakespeare's, Hamlet. Pupils had to learn their parts so they would be 'off script' for the performance, and develop their own take on the characters and dialogue. The attached photos are from our final dress rehearsal, where they were directed and encouraged by Emma Manton from the Royal Shakespeare Company. The pupils delivered an amazing performance on the night, and we are all excited to share the professional photos from the performance when they arrive.

Spelling Bee

Date: 22nd Mar 2024 @ 3:39pm

Today we held out second Speling Bee of the year and it was another fantastic occasion. 4 children from each year group represented their house and were given three spellings each to spell out loud from a bank of words they have been learning since September. The competition was extremely close, with Rodwell and Elston finishing joint first as the children from these houses spelled all of their words correctly.

 

Well done to all of the children who took part today.

Year 4 - Spellings

Date: 19th Mar 2024 @ 2:03pm

Every week, we do an activity around our new spelling rule. This week, after learning the spelling rule we had to look in a dictionary at definitions because there were a few words we hadn't heard of. After we completed the task, we practised spelling them on Spelling Shed.

Year 3- Finding features in poems!

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:56pm

In Reading into Writing we have begun our new journey of poems. We have created a shared Success Criteria of the features and have identified features in a range of poems.  

Year 6 - Writing Narrative

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:52pm

In Reading into Writing we have begun writing narratives. We have begun with a short story based on the silent video 'Rock, Paper, Scissors.' Our task was to write the conversations that we thought would occur between the three main characters. We also added description throughout our stories to bring both characters and settings to life.

Year 5 - Working on Writing

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 2:50pm

As part of our reading into writing journey, we have worked collaboratively to edit and improve our writing. Working with a partner encourages children to find errors and also to discuss ideas to improve their writing.

Year 1 Adverbs

Date: 14th Mar 2024 @ 12:22pm

In todays lesson we explored adverbs to tell us how something is done. We learnt that an adverb gives extra information about the verb. As a class, we looked at how adverbs are formed and that most are made by adding the suffix ‘ly’ onto the end of the word, e.g. kind + ly = kindly. We explored adverbs that describe how an action is happening and chose adverbs to orally use in a sentence. As our independent task, we then matched a range of verbs to the correct picture, before choosing an adverb to describe the action. We then put some of these into our own sentences on whiteboards. Finally, we completed a quiz to identify and recognise adverbs in written sentences.

Year 3- World Book Day!

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 12:56pm

Take a look at our amazong World Book Day costumes! We all dressed as our favourite characters today and shred our reasons for picking our characters. We joined a football quiz, joined in a great book Kahoot, read our reading books and finally we created our own story boards.

We were also lucky enough to have our very own book swap! We brought in a book that we had read and swapped it for one we were yet to explore! 

What a brilliant day of books!

Year 6 - World Book Day

Date: 7th Mar 2024 @ 11:45am

What a World Book Day this has been! Year 6 have really gone above and beyond this year with their character costumes. From Harry Potter to Dr. Frankenstein, the variety has been really impressive. We have also taken part in a book and football quiz with schools around the country as well as a Book Banter session, where we discussed fun facts we have learned from non-fiction books.

 

Take a look at some of our costumes!

Year 1 Imperative Verbs

Date: 5th Mar 2024 @ 7:17pm

This half term our Reading into Writing journey is all about instructions. Today, alongside reading and identifying imperative verbs to turn sentences into a command or instruction, we played an imperative verb game to follow imperative verbs. We worked collaboratively to practise being bossy and giving bossy commands and instructions to our partner. We were all able to identify the imperative verbs and create bossy sentences both orally and written down.

Meet our new Librarians

Date: 1st Mar 2024 @ 2:32pm

Our new librararians have been appointed!📚

They recently visited The Attic for the first time and they were blown away!😮 Not only did they get to explore the magical world of books, but they also had the chance to chat about their new role and how they can make our school library even better!🙌🏼 What's even more exciting is that the National Literacy Trust in Blackpool, in partnership with World of Stories, has generously donated some new books to our library!📖

#NewLibrarians #WorldOfStories #BookLovers #SchoolLibraryGoals

Reception Making Pancakes

Date: 29th Feb 2024 @ 10:59am

This week the children in Reception have been making pancakes.  We talked about the tradition of pancake day how some people decide to give something up, during the Christain period of Lent.  The children then enjoyed following a recipe to make and then eat their own pancakes.  When we returned to the classroom sequenced the pictures correctly and wrote our own insgtructions.

"You have to mix the eggs, milk and flour with a whisk" Alaiya

"Cook it in a frying pan" Isla

"The pancakes were yummy.  I liked the syrup best" Isabelle.

Year 3- Finding features!

Date: 22nd Feb 2024 @ 2:47pm

In this lesson we began to explore the features of a fable. The children used the success criteria made in previous lessons to identify a range of features.  

Year 4 - Planning for LGBTQ+ news report

Date: 1st Feb 2024 @ 8:33pm

As a class, we did a carousel to make a group plan for a news report about Blackpool Pride.

Year 4 - LGBTQ+ research

Date: 22nd Jan 2024 @ 9:05pm

We started our LGBTQ+ research today. In Reading into Writing, our genre is News Reports. We used our digital literacy skills to research Blackpool Pride. We will use this information to write News Reports about Pride in Blackpool.

Year 2- No Pen Morning

Date: 17th Jan 2024 @ 8:06am

Yesterday, we took part in no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we were starting to look at present and past tense verbs; we did a loop card game to start before we sorted verbs and sentences into past and present tense. In Maths, we started our new unit of money, we counted pence to find different amounts and matched it to the correct price label. 

Year 5 - Digital Literacy No Pen Morning

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 8:24pm

To develop our digital literacy skills, pupils at Boundary spent the morning completing maths and writing lessons using only digital devices. For reading into writing, pupils used their chromebooks to publish their creation stories from Aboriginal culture. For maths, pupils used the BBC Micro:bits to create a rock, paper, scissors game. This was the first time pupils have used these tiny computers, and they even improved the code to reset after each turn, display a welcome message when the device was turned on, and make sound effects! 

Year 4 - No Pen morning

Date: 16th Jan 2024 @ 1:28pm

In Year 4, we were introduced to a multiplication competition on a website called Emile first thing this morning and we did lots of times tables to gain points for our school. Then we went on a typing skills website (https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/articles/z3c6tfr#zn9s3qt) where we put on headphones and practised some typing skills. After we learnt typing skills, we learned how to use some of the skills on Google Docs (e.g bold, italic). We then used these skills to highlight some of the features of a Newspaper report like we have been doing in Reading into Writing. In Maths, some children matched 3D and 2D shapes into the correct columns on a worksheet. Everyone else continued their work on multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.

Reception Phase 3 Phonics

Date: 15th Jan 2024 @ 12:34pm

This week the children have starting learning the phase 3 digraphs.  The children have been busy applying their phonics knowledge when reading and writing in the areas.  The children have been using their robot arms to orally segement the words and then finding the correct sound on the sounds mat.  Have a look at some of our wonderful writing.

Year 4 - Learning our spellings

Date: 12th Jan 2024 @ 1:13pm

We kicked off the first Friday of Spring 1 learning our spelling rules and the definitions of our words.

Year 5 - Reading Returns

Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 4:37pm

After two weeks away over Christmas, pupils in year 5 are back and hard at work improving their reading and reading comprehension skills. As usual, this week pupils have been exploring texts related to our writing journey, Aboriginal Dreamtime Stories from Australia. Pupils read and discuss the text in a small group before answering comprehension questions about what they have read. Other children were working independently on our online resource, 'Reading Plus' - reading different genres of text and answering questions.

Year 4- Finding Features of News Articles

Date: 11th Jan 2024 @ 1:06pm

In Reading into Writing, Year 4 have been identifying structural and language features of newspaper reports and online news articles. Firstly, we looked at some examples of newspaper articles and highlighted the features that we noticed. After this, we used our digital literacy skills to look at some news articles online and were given post it notes to label the features that we found. We will continue to read and annotate a range of news articles and will plan and write our own news article in the next couple of weeks.

Year 3- Figurative Language!

Date: 14th Dec 2023 @ 2:54pm

In Reading into Writing we have been looking at shape poems. From our learning of alliteration, similes and metaphors we then applied this to create a bank of phrases and words linking to our christmas theme. 

Year 5 - Text Feature Detectives

Date: 12th Dec 2023 @ 9:37am

As our Reading into Writing journey into stories from other cultures continues, pupils were challenged to find structure and language features from a variety of different text. We have been learning about the Australian Aborigional Dreamtime stories, a group of creation stories from their culture. Pupils identified the features before working collaboratively to find them in different stories.

Year 4- Writing Playscripts

Date: 7th Dec 2023 @ 4:28pm

Year 4 have been focusing on writing playscripts. This week, we have watched a couple of the scenes from Arthur Christmas and have written a film script of these scenes as a class. We have thoroughly enjoyed looking at the main features of play/film scripts and using these in our own shared writing. We look forward to planning and drafting our own film scripts later on this half term.

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