Experience Day – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

18th April 2024Laura Hamill

Crew Hamill have loved sinking their teeth into their new writing genre this week! We have begun a narrative on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and after spending a few grammar days focusing on speech in order to be able to include this in our retelling of the story, we have today begun to focus on the section of the film we will be writing about. We began by watching a short clip that was taken from the film, where Charlie and the rest of the Golden Ticket winners enter the room of all things edible! We then recalled what we had watched by sequencing a range of pictures from the clip. Finally, we worked as a crew to chot down lots of vocabulary based on what we had seen. We have created an anchor chart full of brilliant vocabulary words that we can use to really make our writing stand out.

Our tower – where are the leaves coming from?

17th April 2024Lauren Marsh

Today we experienced the next part of our book and looked at what we saw out of our tower, we could see lots of leaves blowing from the park that is on the out skirts of the grey, dull city. We watched them blow passed us and created our own green leaf. We then made a pack lunch to take with us on our adventure to find where the leaves were coming from. We enjoyed our jam sandwich outside under the tree.

Our Tower

17th April 2024Eleanor Pashley

For our experience lesson, Crew Godley, we read the story ‘Our Tower’ for our new writing unit then we discussed different scenes from the book. We then made our own towers out of different resources in the classroom and designed our own towers from looking at different types of towers.

Our tower

15th April 2024Lauren Marsh

Today we started our new book in writing called “Our Tower”, the book started with a girl who was walking through a tall, grey and dingy city. She did not feel very happy and it was raining so she was soaked!

We experienced the miserable weather and built our own skyscrapers for our own city. We especially worked on our adjectives in todays lesson to help us to describe what we could see.

Edit and redraft ✍️

23rd March 2024Kate Thompson

In our writing lesson today, we had the opportunity to use our new dictionaries and thesauruses when editing and redrafting our work. First, we used our target grids to help us unpick the targets we need to work on and then we collaboratively chotted a model redraft. We then had a go at redrafting independently.

Journey to the Arctic 🐻‍❄️ ⛵️

22nd March 2024Nicola Robson

Today we thought about Tom’s Journey to the Arctic. We made origami paper boats and then sailed them across the frozen water in our tough tray. We talked about what Tom would see on his journey and the effects big and small waves would have on his boat. We also talked about the vastness of the ocean and how he might feel lonely on his adventure.  Great work crew, I am looking forward to reading your writing!

Tom’s Dad has gone missing!📰

22nd March 2024Lauren Marsh

When we got in from break today we heard our classroom door make a strange noise, we had been delivered a newspaper that told us the great explorer (Tom’s Dad) had gone missing in North Pole.

We decided that we wanted to help, so we all wrote our own newspaper describing what Tom’s Dad looked like and where he had gone missing. We then told the rest of the school about this by posting it under their classroom doors.