Today we have started our next writing unit, a persuasive letter. We have unpicked a persuasive letter thinking about the features needed. We used coloured pencils to highlight emotive language, flattery, rhetorical questions, adverbials, facts/evidence and using the first person. We worked really hard in our pairs to support each other when reading the letter then finding the features together.
Category : Curriculum
Year 3 and 6 Reading (25.2.22) 📚
What a lovely morning it was seeing Crew McLoughlin reading their independent writing to Crew Flaherty and Crew Gerrard. It was fantastic to see our Year 3 pupils share their stories to the Year 6s too. It was a lovely atmosphere throughout!
Music Hook 2 (25.2.22) 🎵🎶🎸
Year 3 have had a great lesson critiquing songs from the 60s up to now. It was great seeing how music changed and learning musical vocabulary. The critiquing was excellent and was such a lovely morning. Check out our photos below:
Hola, Colombia!
Crew Shields – 24/2/22
Crew Shields have really enjoyed being able to design animals that would be able to survive in the rainforest. They explored merging some animals together and ensured they had the required adaptions to survive.
Building background knowledge
Today we have used Jess French’s brilliant book ‘Forests’ to understand some more information on deforestation, helping us answer our guiding question!
Crew Mcloughlin authors ✍🏼
During a critique session, Miss began by modelling how to critique a piece of Y6 writing. We then had confidence to help and work as a crew – this really helped us with how this would look when revising our own writing.
We then focused on our peers’ independent plot point 1 writing. Using the gold and green standards, we assessed how well the writing met the criteria. We then up-levelled some sentences to try and improve cohesion and flow as well as Y6 quality. After we discussed praises, notices and wonders, we returned to our own writing and tried to improve the content and quality. We have loved narrating The Lorax and cannot wait to read it to our audience – Year 3 and 4.
Showing off our moves in dance…
Polar Bear Explorers Club experience day (22.2.22) ❄️🐻❄️
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.
Testing magnets (21.2.22)
Year 3 tested magnets on different materials to see whether they were magnetic or not. We then discussed why we thought the materials were magnetic and the forces at work, such as attracting which is a pull force.
