Reading into Writing: Blog items

Year 4- Congratulations Albie!

Date: 4th Jul 2024 @ 5:24pm

Earlier this year, Albie was entered into a creative writing competition called 'Once Upon A Dream- A Collection of Fantastic Words!' He wrote a poem which was about the dangers that our planet faces and how we can save it. This week, we recieved the fantastic news that Albie has been selected for his work to be published in a book! We are so proud of you Albie and we look forward to buying some copies of the book for our library! 

Year 2 - Takeover Morning

Date: 20th Jun 2024 @ 1:53pm

Today was our annual Year 5 Takeover Morning and Year 2 were lucky to spend the morning being taught by Mr Fleming, Mr Bell, Mr Hudson, Mr Zaleski and Mr Rhodes.  We started off with Maths where we recapped our 2x, 5x and 10x multiplication facts.  We played Hit The Button and then we completed independent tasks where we had to apply our 2x, 5x and 10x table knowledge.

After break we looked at word classes in Reading into Writing.  We revisited nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs.  We identified them in sentences and discussed what their uses were.  We then worked in groups to complete a sorting game.

We thoroughly enjoyed our morning with our Takeover teachers, we all worked hard and tried our very best for them and we hope that we have given them an idea of what it is like to work in a school.

Year 2- Character Descriptions

Date: 17th May 2024 @ 7:50am

This week, Year Two were lucky to have a visit from author Dan Worsley. We began the morning by participating in a storytelling assembly where Dan kindly shared one of his stories with us before he came to visit our classroom and delivered a descriptive writing workshop with us. As part of our Reading into Writing unit, Twisted Fairytales, we picked a character from famous fairytale and created our own evil troll that we could use in our final write. Some of us were lucky and got to put on Dan's storytelling waistcoat to share some of our descriptive sentences. Thank you to Dan for coming in, we all really enjoyed the workshop and it has inspired us to write some incredible twisted fairytales. 

Year 5 - Super Cinquains

Date: 16th May 2024 @ 12:24pm

We have completed our poetry journey, where we have been learning about cinquain poems. After, planning, drafting, editing and writing, pupils published their poem using google docs. We have been using our digital literacy skills in other areas of the curriculum - not just in Computing lessons.

Year 5 - A 'Grand' Day out

Date: 13th May 2024 @ 5:15pm

All of the pupils in year 5 had a great experience at Blackpool's Grand Theatre watching the amazing new show, The Boy at the Back of the Class; based on the book by 

Onjali Q. Raúf, which we have been reading in class. The children loved the opportunity to visit the theatre and watch the production. 
 
Some quotes from Year 5 pupils:

“All of the acting was brilliant.”

“My favourite part was when Ahmet had eyes like a lion.”

“I liked the unexpected turn of events.”

“I loved it when Mr Irons was fired.”

“It was clever how they showed Alexa and Tom travelling around London by train and taxi.”

Acorns - Ben plants a Butterfly Garden

Date: 12th May 2024 @ 6:25pm

This week Acorns have been exploring the story Ben plants a Butterfly Garden.

We are continuing to develop our understanding of the butterfly life cycle.

We have enjoyed a variety of sensory tuff tray experiences as well as the sensory story.

We have also noticed the change in our caterpillars, which a now chrysalis.

We have engaged well in lots of different literacy and numeracy activities, developing our overwriting skills and number knowledge. We are continuing to develop our engagement in adult-led activities alongside our peers.

What a busy week. 

Year 5 - Parker's Poets

Date: 7th May 2024 @ 4:44pm

Today, the pupils in year 5 were given some excellent guidence about writing poems, and becoming a writer after their school days have ended. Blackpool poet, Nathan Parker visited us and shared his knowledge and experience. He guided the children to write a collaborative poem, which we also performed as a class. All of the pupils were engaged with the activity and contributed their ideas to the final poem.

Year 5 - Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Date: 29th Apr 2024 @ 4:03pm

We are please to share with you some of the official performance photos from the RSC Playmaking Festival. Year 5 pupils from Boundary worked with a director from the RSC to perform part of Hamlet, which was combined with performaces from other schools to tell the whole story. The performances were fantastic and we were pleased to be able to offer this amazing experience to our pupils.

Year 6 - Class Novel

Date: 26th Apr 2024 @ 12:06pm

This week, Oak class have begun their new class novel of Wonder by R.J. Palacio. We don't want to give too much away so read the following blurb and see if it's something you'd like to read:

 

'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'

Auggie wants to be an ordinary ten-year-old. He does ordinary things - eating ice cream, playing on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But ordinary kids don't make other ordinary kids run away screaming in playgrounds. Ordinary kids aren't stared at wherever they go.

Born with a terrible facial abnormality, Auggie has been home-schooled by his parents his whole life. Now, for the first time, he's being sent to a real school - and he's dreading it. All he wants is to be accepted - but can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, underneath it all?

Year 4 - Improve a WABOLL

Date: 25th Apr 2024 @ 11:50am

Today we completed the 'Improve a WABOLL' part of our journey. We worked collaboratively to find errors and improve muddled up poems about rivers.

Year 3- No Pen Morning !

Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 2:50pm

For our No Pen Morning, we thought about how we could use our oracy skills to complete our Reading into Writing and Maths lessons. In Reading into Writing we were completing our GPS lesson focusing on subheadings. The children ordered a text based on subheadings, created their own headings and matched topics to the headings. In Maths, we looked at adding fractions. The children created a tarsia using our knowledge of adding numerators.

Year 4- No Pen Morning

Date: 18th Apr 2024 @ 1:56pm

Year 4 have had a great time during no pen morning. In Reading into Writing, we started our next journey which to write a poem based on rivers. We looked at a range of different poems and discussed common features such as alliteration, personification and rhyming. 

In Maths, we learnt how to represent hundredths as fractions. Firstly, we use base ten blocks to understand how to represent hundredths as fractions. Then, we used our digital literacy skills to use rekenrek on our chromebooks. We discussed how many beads were on each side of the rekenrek and talked about how to represent each of the sides as a fraction. 

Year 2- No Pen Morning

Date: 17th Apr 2024 @ 7:24am

Yesterday, Year Two completed no pen morning alongside the rest of the School. In Reading into Writing, we developed our digital literacy skills using the Chromebooks to read a teacher model and find all the different features on SeeSaw. In Maths, we completed a cutting and sticking activity to help us with recognising equal or unequal parts in a range of pictorial representations to begin our new fractions unit. 

Year 1 Zog

Date: 15th Apr 2024 @ 5:55pm

This half term our writing is based around the story 'Zog.' Today we wrote sentences about the main character, using adjectives to describe his main features and linking our Boundary characteristics to Zogs actions at different parts of the story. 

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

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