Today, LKS2 started planning their independent writing plot points, based on the book The Polar Bear Explorers Club. Today, we drew what we thought would happen in the plot point and then we acted it out. After completing that, we then looked through the different lenses to be able to jot down vocabulary ready to use in our independent writing. We can’t wait to write and read them!

This morning, as part of Year 3 and 4s academic Crew, we took a closer look at our peers writing books. First we critiqued the mistakes the adults made. Then it was our turn. We wrote down positive messages in each other’s book about what had been achieved successfully in previous lessons.

Welcome to the polar bear explorers club! To really immerse the children into their new book, which they are going to be using to write from, we organised the children to work through a few similar missions to what Stella has to. We started the session with children having to infer what was happening through the personal secret envelopes. The children then experienced what a ship would feel like when surrounded by wolves and unicorns. Once arriving at Coldgate (the hall) the children experienced the harbour and a sled ride to the headquarters.