Making improvements in Y5/6AM
Today, the children worked together in pairs to read through their Norse Myths they had written this week and help each other edit and improve their writing. They read each […]
Category Archives: Literacy Learning
Cooking club
The children enjoyed their first session of after school cooking club today. We used our teamwork, literacy and creative skills to make chocolate chip buns. That’s one stamp for our […]
Using fronted adverbials in instructions
In Y56AM we practised giving and following instructions in pairs. One person drew a picture, then had to instruct the other person on how to draw this picture. We used […]
Goodnight Mr Tom
Children from Year 6 are this evening enjoying a live performance of Goodnight Mr Tom at Rotherham Civic Theatre.
Drop Everything and Read!
This morning, our literacy lesson was disturbed by the ringing of a bell, which meant it was time to ‘drop everything and read’ as part of our book week celebrations! […]
Playscript features
To start our unit of work on Shakespere, we are learning about how to write a playscript in literacy. Today, we found the features of a playscript, using teamwork to […]
Y5/6AM Word Dress-Up
Today Y5/6AM came to school dressed as a word, to help us launch book week! The children tried really hard with their costumes. We had a variety of words too, […]
TV History (one small step for man….)
In Chestnuts we have been reading The Darkest Dark by the astronaut Chris Hadfield. When he was a boy he watched the first Moon landing. We noticed something funny about […]
A busy week in 3/4H
We’ve been very busy in 3/4H this week. Keep reading to find out some of the things we’ve been up too. Literacy: this week we started a new block of […]
What’s your emergency?
This week in Chestnuts our class text is all about the fire service. We have written lists of equipment they need and started using different media to make fire engines. […]
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