Writing to answer our guiding question

9th December 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill were so excited to get started with their first proper piece of writing in order to show off just how much knowledge we have gained during our grammar focus at the start of this year. We started by using our knowledge of subjects, verbs and leftovers to help Miss Hamill punctuate her model text. Once we had done this, we planned out what we were going to write in our own piece by using a subject, verb, leftover structure. We then worked as a crew to help Miss Hamill turn her plan into paragraphs, looking to see if we could join any of our single clause sentences together with a FANBOYS conjunction or if we could extend our sentences by adding leftovers at the beginning of the clause. We then put this into action ourselves to create our own paragraphs of writing.

Writing experience

9th December 2024Ruth Shields

In writing, we started our writing unit by looking at good examples of a non chronological report and gathered lots of ideas together to help us write some independent clauses. We ensured that our clauses had a subject and verb.

Bullcroft Christmas Light Switch On

9th December 2024Sarah Mcglone

A number of our Year 5/6 pupils sang a selection of Christmas carols to celebrate the Christmas lights being switch on at Bullcroft Memorial Hall. It was lovely to hear the children singing so beautifully! A huge thank you to the children who attended – even though it was on a Saturday! And a massive thank you to the grown ups who joined us. Feeling very proud!

Writing so far…

6th December 2024Hannah McLoughlin

To activate into our experience day we refreshed our subject knowledge of physics, with a particular focus on our CS2 expeditionary learning all about forces. What better way to do this other than a Kahoot! We then focused on our writing focus of exploring features in a non chronological report. To begin with we focused on identifying the presentational features and with a partner analysed the text’s purpose and audience of our model. We then delved deeper by reading and identifying the language features whilst considering the purpose. We did the same again with another non chronological report on a different subject to reiterate the text-type specific features in non chronological reports. 

Experience Day Part 2

In part 2 of our experience day, we began critiquing presentational features of various non chronological reports made by children to spark our imagination. We also chotted ideas for titles and headings using miss’ help sheet she had created. Finally, we planned the layout of our individual non chronological reports.

Sentence Days

So far we have written 4 plot points of our non chronological report. We have retrieving facts from a given text based on our structure, then up-levelled based on our targets. Throughout the process we have used childrens examples to critique in order to help us purple pen our own work. We will be ready to draft next week and we cannot wait to publish them into beautiful double page spreads!