Over two Experience Days, Crew McLoughlin have been developing their creativity, confidence, and communication skills through a range of exciting activities. On the first day, they became wildlife reporters inspired by Sir David Attenborough, planning and performing their own mini rainforest documentaries. Working in pairs, they used expression, intonation, and body language to bring scenes of grooming, foraging, and danger to life. On the second day, pupils built on these skills by listening to a model monologue and experimenting with tone and expression. In groups of three, they explored the text, identifying powerful vocabulary and descriptive techniques before noting ideas for their own writing. It’s been a brilliant few days of teamwork, imagination, and expressive learning – Crew McLoughlin have truly brought their voices to life!

This week, Crew McLoughlin have used story maps to plan their independent writing. They came up with lots of amazing different endings of how The Lorax might end. Using their story maps, they organised their ideas and thought carefully about how to bring the story to a happy ending. At the end of the lesson, a few brave volunteers stood in front of the class to share their wacky and wonderful alternative endings.

Today was Experience Day in our writing lesson, Crew McLoughlin practised their roleplaying skills through recreating scenes from The Lorax. Working in mini crews, everyone planned, rehearsed, and then performed their scenes for the class. There was plenty of creativity, teamwork and communication! Our crew particularly enjoyed guessing which scene each group was performing! This was a great way kick start our new writing unit.