Having completed our superhero stories, we used the feedback we’ve been given to write a next step for ourselves. In order to action our next steps and improve even further, this week we have started writing a new story entitled ‘The Day I woke up with Superpowers!’. We are using the same success criteria as … Read more
This week we continued to write our superhero stories, making sure that we were responding to any feedback we had been given. We had to think really carefully about the success criteria and make sure that we were writing in well organised paragraphs, including a question for the reader, starting our sentences in different ways, … Read more
This week we have been planning our own superhero stories and thinking about what makes an effective plan. We wrote success criteria for our stories and started writing the opening and build-up sections. Within our writing we are trying to include enough detail to engage the reader and we are still practising starting our sentences … Read more
This week in English we have continued with our topic ‘Superheroes’. We have finished off our character profiles, making sure that we’ve included really interesting adjectives and superlatives. We also started planning superhero stories. We had to think about the setting, who the enemy will be, the problem and a resolution. At the beginning of … Read more
Welcome back. We hope you all had a relaxing Easter break. This week we have started our new topic ‘Superheroes’. We have discussed what we know about superheroes and have shared some great stories including ‘Supertato’ and ‘Superhero Hotel’. Ask us what superhero stories have in common. On Tuesday we designed our own superhero characters … Read more
This week we have been discussing what we know about school life in Chembakolli. We then talked about how it is different to life at Crowmarsh. We brainstormed section headings – e.g. School routines, facilities, equipment and after school activities. We looked at a WAGOLL and a WABOLL and in our trios wrote about what … Read more
In our English lessons this week we have continued to write our stories set in Chembakolli. We have tried hard to include more detail about characters and the setting, using the adjective and adverb questions to help us. We’ve also been trying to start our sentences in a range of different ways, for example, by … Read more
In our topic work this week we have looked at an Indian traditional tale called ‘Tiger child’. We talked about the fact that this is a tale that would have originally been told, rather than written down, and passed down from generation to generation. Later in the week we had a go at planning and … Read more
This week we have been reading an Indian tale called ‘Gobble you up’. It’s all about a cunning and wily jackal that eats lots of different animals until he eventually bursts open! We’ve used this text as a basis for writing instructions for trapping a jackal. We started with a ‘You will need’ box and … Read more
This week we have started our Topic on India. In our English work we’ve begun by looking at a picture of an Indian street market and then describing it. We’ve thought carefully about how we can organise our ideas, how we can start our sentences in different ways and how we can use adjectives to … Read more
