Reading into Writing: Blog items
Date: 21st Oct 2022 @ 12:53pm
Today, we completed our fantasy setting descriptions. Here are some examples of the children's fantastic writing! This is the setting they were describing: https://www.literacyshed.com/draculas-whitby.html
Date: 18th Oct 2022 @ 7:34pm
This week Year 1 have been reading the story 'Funnybones.' We have focused on sentence structure by reading and ordering mixed up sentences. We re-read each sentence to ensure it made sense and had capital letters and full stops in the correct places. We have also been writing our own sentences about characters in the story. In our provision we have also completed lots of independent writing and reading tasks relating to the story.
Date: 17th Oct 2022 @ 2:57pm
This month, as part of our School celebration of Black History Month we have been completing our writing journey about Rosa Parks. As part of our GPS lessons we looked at information about Rosa Parks and the influence she had on Black rights by refusing to give up her seat and wrote statements about her life and questions we would have liked to have asked her if she was still alive. We will use our knowledge to write a letter to Rosa thanking her for her hard work and determination.
Date: 14th Oct 2022 @ 11:29am
In Year 4, something we all need to work on is spotting simple errors in our writing. Today, we did some activities to practise spotting errors such as missing full stops, missing capital letters and simple spellings errors.
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 7:28pm
What a great afternoon we had taking part in the Spelling Bee. Four children from Year 5 represented their house in the spelling competition. Each person showed courage, determination and confidence in attempting their words and did really well, adding to the overall total for their houses. Well Done Chepstow, who were the winners!
Date: 11th Oct 2022 @ 6:40pm
This week we held the first Spelling Bee of the year. All children were tested on 30 spellings they have been learning this half term and the best speller in each house was chosen to represent their team.
Date: 7th Oct 2022 @ 11:38am
During the start of our reading into writing journey for Non-Chronological reports we have been reading and finding the features of different good examples (WAGOLLS). We have also done a jigsaw task where we had to read each paragraph, work out which text it belonged to and organise the structure. We decided on the order and layout before gluing them down.
Year 4's amazing figurative language list
Date: 6th Oct 2022 @ 8:29pm
For the last few weeks of this half term, we are writing a fantasy setting description. The children were shown the setting they'd be describing today and then they worked really hard together to come up with examples of figurative language and fronted adverbials that they could use in their own writing.
Date: 30th Sep 2022 @ 10:29am
In Reading into Writing, we have started learning about diaries. Today we started our immersion into reading and read a variety of WAGOLLs. We idenitfied the main points of the texts and began to idenitfy the features that linked in the texts. We did this in pairs and then joined to make a four and share our findings.
Date: 29th Sep 2022 @ 2:58pm
This half-term, children in year 5 have been learning how to write a biography. We have read biographies of several famous people including, Roald Dahl, Stormzy and Wayne Rooney, and identified the language and structural features that make them different to other text types. Follwing the death of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, pupils carried out research, planned, drafted and edited a biography of her life, before presenting a final, polished piece of writing.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:16pm
Reception have been busy learning out new letters sounds in phonics. We have been working hard to orally segement simple words and then blend the sounds together. We are beginning to recognise some of our phase 2 sounds and trying our best to hear the initial sound and form the letter sound correctly using our letter rhymes..
' s s s sock" Alfie
"p p p penguin" Nikodem
"t-a-p it's tap" Lana-Rose.
"Around the astonaunts helment, down and out into space. It's a a" Michael
The children have been completing a range of different phonics activities in continuous provision. Have a look at some of our work!
Reception Rosie the hen went for a walk
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 12:05pm
Reception have been reading the story 'Rosie's Walk'. It is all about a little hen who goes for a walk around the farmyard. However, Rosie the hen isn't aware that she is being followed by a very sneaky fox. She goes all over the farmyard "around the pond' 'over the haystack' and 'under the beehives'. The fox gets himself into allsorts of trouble including falling into the pond and it finally ends in him being chased away by the bees.
The children have been using the props at the storytelling table to help them sequence the story and used the correct positional language. That have made their own story maps and have been trying hard to hear the initial sound in words e.g. f for fox and h for hen.
Outside the children made their own obstacle course for Rosie and enjoyed acting out the story together.
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 11:28am
In Year 6 we have finished our first Reading into Writing journey - explanatory texts. We followed all the stages of the journey:
- Cold write
- Looking at a WAGOLL for features
- Immersion in Reading
- GPS linked to the genre
- Teacher model/Shared write
- Improving a WABOLL
- Plan
- Draft
- Edit
- Hot write
We produced some excellent writing for our first piece in Year 6. Our end piece of writing was to explain how to use a 'Teacher Pleaser' machine. We think our teachers would be very happy if they had a machine like the ones we invented!!
Date: 28th Sep 2022 @ 9:23am
In year 4 this year, we are really focusing on handwriting. We are doing handwriting lessons daily to try and help improve the children's handwriting. We are mainly focusing on letter formation, but we are also pushing the children to write the neatest they can and not to rush. You will notice when the children bring their spelling homework home each week, there is an opportunity for them to practise their handwriting with their spellings.
Date: 15th Sep 2022 @ 3:46pm
Today we took part in a shared writing session. We had to work as a team to devise a paragraph that would work as part of a biography for Ellen White, who was one of the England Team for the Euro's in 2022. We needed to include the features we had been learning about, including third person and past tense. We managed to manipulate some of the sentences to include fronted adverbial phrase.
Year 3 Exploring Explanation Texts
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 4:45pm
During our Reading into Writing session today, we continued to identify the features of an explanation text. We focused on 4 features today: title, conjuntions, time connnectives and technical vocabulary. We worked together to unpick WAGOLLs and find these features. We used our findings to collate a bank of good examples as a class.
Year 4 immerse themselves in non-chronological reports
Date: 7th Sep 2022 @ 2:53pm
Date: 17th Jun 2022 @ 4:39pm
This week, we have started to investigate the famous poem by Alfred Noyes, 'The Highwayman'.
We have looked at the structure, vocabulary and GPS features, including the rhyme structure and figurative language.
To help our pupils immerse themself into the poem and visualise it, we spent a lesson yesterday drawing famous scenes/phrases from the poem.
Take a look at our creations!
Reception- Hip, Hip, Hooray for HM The Queen!
Date: 27th May 2022 @ 3:34pm
Reception had a fantastic day celebrating The Queen's Platinum Jubilee!
They all came to school dressed in the colours of the Union Jack flag, red, white and blue. Then they participated in a whole school assembly where they learnt about the five British Values, the reign of HM Queen Elizabeth II and why we are celebrating her Platinum Jubilee. At the end of assembly they waved their flags as they sang a Jubilee song about HM The Queen.
,Throughout the morning, they drew pictures and wrote simple sentences about her as well as making their own crown which they proudly wore to lunch.
Luchtime was special too. The whole school had a Royal picnic lunch and every child raised their cup of juice and gave a toast to HM The Queen.
"It was the best day ever!" Charlie.
"The Queen is 96 years old" Isobel.
"Our flag is red, white and blue" Marleigh.
Date: 26th May 2022 @ 4:25pm
Today, alongside the whole School, Year Two celebrate the Queen's Platinum Jubilee. We begun the day with an assembly explaining why we celebrate and how life has changed during the Queen's time on the throne. We all enjoyed a delicious special Jubilee lunch party eating yummy sandwiches, crisps and some salad with music to celebrate in true style. During the afternoon, we looked at some jubilee themed riddles linking to our Reading into Writing journey. We all had a lovely day and the children looked lovely in their red, white and blue clothing. Here's to the Queen!
Year 6 - Letters of persuasion
Date: 24th May 2022 @ 10:20am
Over the past few weeks, Year 6 have been exploring and writing letters of persuasion. We looked at information about the current effects of plastic pollution and used these facts to write a letter to Boris Johnson. The letter aims to persuade the prime minister to take action with other world leaders in an attempt to slow down, and eventually stop, plastic pollution. We will be sending several of these letters to Downing Street. Let's see if we get a response!!
Year 2- How to plant a Sunflower seed
Date: 23rd May 2022 @ 8:04am
This half term in Year Two we have been focusing on our instructional writing. We learnt that instructions need to be clear and precise to ensure that someone can accurately follow the steps to end up with the same result. We decided we would write a set of instructions on how to plant a sunflower seed after learning about it in Science and having planted them ourselves. After we had planned each step from our memory of planting a seed, we then drafted and eventually after a little editing wrote up our instructions in neat. We now know we need to use time conjunctions to make sure people follow the steps in the correct order. Miss Duckworth and Miss Hooson were very impressed with our final pieces and the children cannot wait to bring their sunflowers home.
Date: 12th May 2022 @ 8:32pm
This week we have read the fabulous story "Superworm" By Julia Donaldson. This story is great for developing an understanding of rhyme and the children were super at joining in with the rhymes. All our learning was based on the story and included comparing the size of worms, make worms of different lengths out of playdough and counting bugs and matching them to the correct numerals. The children got creative by making their own magic wands just like Wizard Lizards and made superworms living in a garden. They also practised writing their names by writing them inside a worm and explored capacity and what happens when they mixed different liquids to make magic potions.
Date: 10th May 2022 @ 7:12pm
In today's lesson we learnt how to follow instructions to achieve an outcome. We recapped on the features of instructions and how they need to be in the chronological order to make sense. We learnt the importance of checking our instructions and ensuring they have every step included. We discovered that we need to be clear and specific when giving instructions to enable a final goal to be reached successfully. We then gave instructions to Miss Kay, telling her how to make a jam sandwich. We saw what happens when we weren’t clear and how the end goal wasn’t what we wanted! We then worked in pairs to follow the correct instructions on how to make a jam sandwich.
Date: 8th May 2022 @ 10:42am
In Year 1, our current Reading into Writing journey is poetry. This week we have been immersing ourselves in lots of different examples! We have looked at a range of poems, including acrostic poetry. We have worked with a partner to read and find the features of each poem. We have been looking for: capital letters, adjectives, rhyming words, alliteration and similies. We will then be writing our own Spring acrostic poems using all the features we have found to help us!
