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As part of our Jubilee celebrations, we all wrote letters to the Queen congratulating her for her Platinum Jubilee. We learned how to set out and write a formal letter and tried to use formal language. We then posted them.

We are waiting for our responses!

Diamond Class learned about the Queen’s speech and then wrote their own. They presented it to ‘Diamond Parliament’ just like they were the Queen. They had some great ideas for how to support the country!

After the Records Office visit, we travelled to the Millennium Library to learn how a library works to continue to develop our love of reading. Our recounts tell you all that we did and learned there.

In English Year 4 and 5 have been studying the narrative poem ‘The Jabberwocky’ by Lewis Carroll with the intention of writing a non-chronological report about the animal called the Jabberwock.

We learned the features of a report and extracted all the evidence about the Jabberwock from the poem. We looked up facts from other animals and combined these to create our reports.

What do you think of our Jabberwocks? Would you enter the tulgey wood?

We all learned a range of poetry to perform at the class poetry festival. Some of us performed action poems, some of us performed rhyming poems and some of us performed free verse.

The class performed 2 poems together one with actions, Oh I wish I’d looked after me teeth – Pam Eyres’ and one without actions ‘The magic of the mind – Simon Webster.’ We enjoyed learning to convey meaning when we couldn’t use any actions.

For our poetry festival in March we have chosen our own poems to perform. We learned how to choose the best poem to convey expression or to add actions to. We are now practising them ready for our performances at the end of March. 

Diamond Class celebrated World Book Day by learning dance and drama techniques to explore the book ‘Fantastic Mr Fox’ by Roald Dahl. Some pupils shared their favourite book with the class giving recommendations for why others would love to read it. The class also learned how to write a story in either 25 words or 25 sentences. The stories were very impressive. 

Year 4, 5 and 6 learned the features of an adventure story and then wrote one inspired by their ‘expedition’ to Lake Mono. The volcano erupted whilst they were there! Read their stories to see what happened.

The pupils read their stories aloud to the class learning to use expression to convey the drama of the story. We all enjoyed listening to them. They were very dramatic.

Year 4, 5 and 6 are learning to write an adventure story this term. They are going on an expedition to Lake Mono as part of a production team and have learned about the jobs available, acted out the jobs and have learned to write a job application form.

Keep checking the website to see the next stages of their learning.

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