by Maurteen Taylor | Sep 26, 2019 | Class 5T, English, Topic
In English, we have been using our drama skills to empathise with characters from our class book ‘Street Child’. Firstly, we acted out some scenes from the book to explore the different emotions that Mr. Spink and Jim were feeling during key events. Two...
by Maurteen Taylor | Sep 18, 2019 | Class 5J, English
In English, the children worked on understanding how events in a story unfold. As a result, they were given sentences and based on their knowledge of the story read in class, the children ordered the events to reconstruct the story. The children enjoyed this exercise...
by Maurteen Taylor | Jul 3, 2019 | English, Pupils, School Events
As part of the Mini Reading Challenge in conjunction with Dewsbury library, this fabulous pyramid was built to demonstrate a thorough understanding of the After Life within the Egyptian civilization. In addition to this 3D project, a poster was produced explaining the...
by Maurteen Taylor | Mar 20, 2019 | Class 5J, English, Topic
‘As part of our English topic, Persuasion, we looked at the various techniques and used Bill Poster’s 6 tips: Adjectives, rhetorical questions, play with words, benefits, exaggeration and snappy sentences. Equipped with these, the children devised...
by Maurteen Taylor | Mar 19, 2019 | Classes, English, School Events, Special Celebrations
Another year to celebrate world book day and again the children and staff didn’t disappoint.
by Maurteen Taylor | Mar 14, 2019 | Class 2G, English, Home Page News
On Friday for World Book Day, we were very lucky to have the author Jason Beresford in school. After an exciting assembly, we were very lucky to have a workshop with him. During this workshop, Jason encouraged us to become and move like an animal. Just like the...
