Reading into Writing: Blog items
Date: 16th May 2025 @ 1:54pm
As part of their writing journey, year 5 pupils have been working collaboratively to write part of a historical narrative. Working together, pupils have changed part of the classical poem, The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes, into a narrative.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:48am
This week saw Year 5 begin their new journey in Reading into Writing. As always, we begin with an oracy lesson. We are looking at the narrative poem 'The Highway Man' by Alfred Noyes. The children worked in groups, each taking a stanza to use their oracy skills including intonation, expression and performace to bring the stanza to life in a performance in front of the class.
Date: 8th May 2025 @ 9:11am
In our final week before SATs, we took our revision outside for a fun GPS market place activity. 20 questions were placed around the playground and the children had to collect letters as they went. If they were right, the letters created a punchline to a joke.
Date: 7th May 2025 @ 3:40pm
This week we have read our new story, 'Zog.' We have read and discussed the story, created story maps, labelled the characters, written sentences to describe key events and completed lots of related tasks in our provision.
Date: 6th May 2025 @ 2:09pm
We were thrilled to welcome local poet and author Nathan Parker to our school, where he shared his inspiring journey into writing with the children. Hailing from Blackpool, Nathan spoke passionately about how his love for poetry began at a young age, sparked by his surroundings and a desire to tell stories. He captivated the students with tales of how Blackpool, with its vibrant culture and seaside atmosphere, influences much of his work. Nathan didn’t just talk about poetry—he worked closely with the children to create their own poem, encouraging them to use their imaginations and express their unique voices. The students loved the hands-on experience, and their faces lit up as their ideas came together into something truly special. Nathan’s visit was a wonderful reminder of the power of creativity, and he left the children with the message to keep writing and never stop dreaming—no matter where their own creative journeys take them.
Year 2- Immersed in twisted fairytales
Date: 1st May 2025 @ 9:18am
This half term, we are exploring the genre of Twisted fairytales. Over the last few days, we have enjoyed reading a variety of fairytales with a twist on the original. We have been identifying how they are twisted from the original as well as some of the key features including characters, settings, adjectives and adverbs to inspire us for our own twist on a classic fairytale.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 9:38am
This week, we typed up our hot writes of our Poem on a Theme. The theme was about rivers - linking to our Geography unit. Have a look at some of the amazing figurative language the children have used.
Date: 24th Apr 2025 @ 8:25am
Our first story this half term is 'How to Catch a Star.' This week we have read the story, drawn our own story maps to help us retell the key events, labelled key characters from the story and written speech bubbles. We have also completed lots of activities related to the story in our clasroom provision.
Date: 22nd Apr 2025 @ 2:26pm
We began our new half term by reading the story 'The Dot.' We talked about the message in the story and the characteristics the character shows. We then painted a background on our circles, before creating two different dots. One showed a self portrait of ourselves and on the other we created a pattern dot using oil pastels and felt tips.
Date: 10th Apr 2025 @ 9:14am
This week, Year 2 participated in no pen morning. In reading into writing, we continued looking at non-chronological reports by sorting facts into the correct subheading which will help us when writing our own this week. In maths, we exploring recognising a quarter, we sorted shapes and amounts into whether they were quarters or not.
Date: 9th Apr 2025 @ 4:26pm
Today was No Pen Day and once we again we had a focus on Oracy. We started the day with some discussions topics and talked to our partners about what we thought. We then opened up the discussion to the whole class and used our talk tactics to include everyone, including agree, build and challenge. In Guided Reading we looked at orally answering questions on given texts and challenged each other to give thorough answers. In Reading into Writing, we took part in a teacher model/shared write session on explanatory texts.
Date: 8th Apr 2025 @ 10:18am
For no pen morning, we used our oracy skills in both Reading into Writing and Guided Reading. We are learning about poems on a theme in Reading into Writing and we had a poem about Spring in Guided Reading. In Reading into Writing, it was over to us! It was time for our shared write. We used our figurative language skills and typed a few verses ecah. Then we put them together as one poem and performed them.
Date: 24th Mar 2025 @ 5:17pm
This week we have started to read the story 'Supertato.' In todays lesson we created our own story maps and completed mini me tasks relating to our new story. Over the coming days, we will be labellling the characters in the story, creating speech bubbles for what characters might say and writing sentences to retell key events in the story.
Date: 17th Mar 2025 @ 2:45pm
Today, we enjoyed having our parents come and join us in the classroom. We embedded our knowledge of riddles by answering some riddles that gave us the locations to the jigsaw pieces that we needed to accurately put together the world map to recap our Geography knowledge from our continents and oceans unit. Once we had successfully completed the puzzle, we accurately labelled the continents and oceans. Thank you to the parents who came, it was great to share our learning with you!
Date: 13th Mar 2025 @ 9:25am
This half term we have written a narrative story called 'Rock, Paper, Scissors'. We watched a short silent video based around the relationship between main characters: Rock, Paper, Scissors. We then had to write the story that went with the video. Have a read through some of our stories.
Year 1 The Disgusting Sandwich!
Date: 11th Mar 2025 @ 4:23pm
This week we have started to read the story 'The Disgusting Sandwich.' In today's lesson we learnt how to follow instructions to achieve an outcome - making our own disgusting sandwiches! Firstly, we gave instructions to Miss Kay, telling her how to make a disgusting sandwich using different ingredients. We learnt that we need to be clear and specific when giving instructions to enable a final goal to be reached successfully. We then worked with a partner, developing our verbal instructions further, to give them a set of instructions to make a sandwich. We worked hard to give clear and precise instructions!
Date: 7th Mar 2025 @ 10:43am
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 we sequenced the pictures correctly and wrote our own insgtructions.
"You have to mix the eggs, milk and flour with a whisk" Harley
"Cook it in a frying pan" Dina
"The pancakes were yummy. I liked the chocolate the best" Kevin.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 4:32pm
We had an exciting and interesting World Book Day - we were visited by Princesses, witches and wizards, authors and many, many more. We talked about our favourite books, authors and books that had been made into films. We then took part in a fun quiz about our last class novel 'Kensuke's Kingdom' and then a special World Book Day quiz.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 1:57pm
How incredible do we all look?! What a turn out for World Book Day 2025. Today we all dressed as our favourite book characters. We used our oracy skills to talk about who we were and why we picked our character. We then solved some book themed riddles and wrote our own riddle about our character.
Date: 6th Mar 2025 @ 12:54pm
We were very excited to come to school today dressed as our favourite book characters. We started the day by taking part in our whole school assembly, before coming back to class to complete lots of World Book Day related activities!
Nursery Try to Capture the Evil Pea!
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 2:42pm
We have been reading the story "Supertato" and came to school to find that the Evil Pea had captured all the veggies and then disappeared! We decided we needed to find the Evil Pea so we made some Wanted Posters. The children drew a picture of the Evil Pea and then wrote P for pea. Let's hope it helps to capture the Evil Pea!
Reception Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 1:47pm
This week we have been reading the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears'. The children have been been busy completing lots of different activities based around the story. The children have enjoyed writng about the story and character, retelling the story at the storytelling table, collaging their own bears using a range of materials, making different sized bears out of playdough and using the lego to make beds and chairs for the the bear. They have also been ordering bears up to 10, comparing different quantitiees of bears using the vocabularly more than or less than andexploring number bonds to 5 and ten at our Goldilocks themed maths table.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 10:04am
In Oracy, we played a game of ‘Taboo’ to start. We had to use appropriate vocabulary to describe things on a card but we were not allowed to use some common words! Next, we practised how we would say a sentence in different ways. Finally, our main task was focusing on reasoning. We had to decide what we would do if we ruled the world and give a reason why. Other children in class then had to disagree with the statement and explain their challenge.
Date: 27th Feb 2025 @ 9:04am
As we continue to develop the oracy skills of the pupils at Boundary, pupils were given discussion prompts and asked to 'instigate', 'probe' and 'challenge' during their discussions and also ask for clarification if they were unsure of what someone was saying. Pupils followed our 'discussion guidlines' and showed 'active listening' during the debates.
Date: 24th Feb 2025 @ 7:25pm
Today we began our new half term with a new story 'Monkey Puzzle!' We read the story together, talked about the characters, the setting and the key events before ordering the stories ourselves. We also completed lots of different mini me challenges in our provision, including counting jungle animals, retelling the story at our story telling table and writing sentences about the jungle setting.
