Category : English

This week, Y4 have been examining the language features used to create a really persuasive text. We practiced applying these features and then used our skills to create an advert. Iceland, the supermarket, asked us to write an advert for them to feature in a magazine. It wanted to let potential customers know that they are environmentally-friendly and palm oil free and the devastating problems that the use of palm oil causes for the world’s precious rainforests and wildlife.

Alesha’s carefully composed advert persuaded Mrs Hebden!

Year 1 are very excited to be learning about non-chronological reports over the next few weeks.

We have spent this week looking at the features and how they are set out.

We have discovered that non-chronological reports are non-fiction.

They have a title, an introduction, sub-headings, pictures and a conclusion.

We learnt lots of facts about sharks this week and can not wait to write our own non-chronological reports!

“There’s a rang-tan in my bedroom and I don’t know what to do!”

This week, Y4 have had a fantastic time looking at performance poetry. We started by watching and appraising different performances. We then watched Michael Rosen’s top tips for poetry performance.

Then, we looked at the Green Peace advert featuring the poem “There’s a rang-tan in my bedroom”. This is a moving and very relevant piece as it is themed around deforestation, more specifically destruction for the palm oil industry so links very well with our topic this term. Here’s the original:

We then practiced this poem, considering intonation, pace and expression. Here are some of the results!

Hamdi, Riley, Oliver and Alex.

Esme, Summer and Eva

Grace, Alisha, Maycie and Evie

We then innovated the poem, changing elements so that that there was a rang-tan in our classroom!

Here is a brilliant example:

To help us with our Newspaper reports, Year 3 took on the roles of interviewer and witness to gather some quotes for our newspaper articles. The children used their knowledge of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, in Pompeii, to get into character and answer questions about the events of that day.

Year 2 have been learning new signifiers for ‘The Night Pirates.’  They are doing a fabulous job on day 1!