Non-chronological Reports

Y5 worked collaboratively in groups to write non-chronological reports on different animals. Have the children...

• used formal language? 
• written in the third person?
• written in the present tense? 
• used sub-headings?
• stuck to the facts?

Half Term Homework

Tearful, Agatha stumbled into the empty attic library. The floorboards creaked as she waltzed alone, dancing out of the shadows into the sunlight. Abruptly, she paused. There by the dark fireplace lay a dusty old book. Picking it up, she blew the dust off and saw the title. Gasping, she dropped it!

Either finish this story or write your own based on the two photographs.

At Sea

Y5 have studied a range of poetry this week including a piece called At Sea. Each line of this poem contains an adjective, a noun and a verb and describes a stormy day on the coast. We used the same format to write our own poems about the sea and other places we could describe lots about. Have we created a vivid image in your head?

Cautionary Tales

We have been reading Cautionary Tales such as The Walrus and the Carpenter These poems teach us important lessons. We had a go at writing our own. Can you work out what messages we have tried to send to our readers?

Loneliness

This week in PSHE, we listened to 'Eleanor Rigby' by The Beatles and discussed the differences between being lonely and being alone. Here are some poems we wrote on the subject of loneliness.

Bullying

In our PSHE lesson, we read poems about bullying then had a go at writing some of our own. We tried to communicate the feelings associated with bullying.

Black History Month

This week we have been celebrating the lives of black people though history. To tie in with our learning about WWI, we wrote biographies of Walter Tull, one of the first black, professional footballers, who enlisted in the war.