Team DB have been busy holding the class' creative writing workshop where they have welcomed parents into the classroom. Outcomes for the session were linked to the National Curriculum guidance for their year group. In Team DB, the creative writing centred around producing a setting description. The class worked tremendously hard to use emotive language within their work, with a focus on the five senses throughout. Some really fantastic high quality pieces were achieved - well done Team DB!  

Team HG have been busy holding the class' creative writing workshop where they have welcomed parents into the classroom. Outcomes for the session were linked to the National Curriculum guidance for their year group. In Team HG, the creative writing centred around studying a poem which focussed on a teacher, on a school trip to the seaside, turning into a fish and disappearing. The poem is named: We Lost Our Teacher to the Sea. The class had some fun changing vocabulary and phrases to lose their teachers to ‘A Winter’s Day’. Children wrote their own poems; turning members of Park Street staff into things such as snowmen, robins and even holly bushes and then sharing them in the nature reserve (which the children simply adore). 

This week Mrs Longden has been busy enrolling our Year 6 team on to a fantastic project running in March linked to Shakespeare. The team will be taking on the "Write until your dry" writing workshop and accessing workshops with creative partners to develop a given Shakespeare play. 
We are sure this will be a fantastic experience for our children to explore classic texts further and will be working hard behind the scenes to expand upon this for the wider school too.

Today in Team LL it has been the class' creative writing workshop where they have welcomed parents into the classroom to engage in a literacy based task. Team LL are the first of a number of parental workshops for writing that we have coming up over the term so be sure to make sure you book your place on the event.  Each class is aiming to incorporate the nature reserve (weather permitting) as a stimulus for writing and outcomes will be linked to the National Curriculum guidance for each year group.
In Team LL, the class and parents worked over the course of the morning to develop persuasive adverts to encourage tourists to visit the nature reserve.

Firstly, welcome back! We hope you all had a lovely, restful Christmas break with your loved ones. We are thrilled to have the children back in classes and the atmosphere through school has been lovely. 
As we move in to Spring term, children through school are currently busy engaging with their new half termly texts to drive and support writing. Check out the texts being used this half term to support your children's developing written skills;
Team CH - Tusk Tusk
Team JF - The Lost Happy Ending
Team AC - The Tunnel
Team CB - Fantastic Mr Fox
Team JD - The Iron Woman
Team DB - Dracula
Team HG - Private Peaceful
Team AF/LL - The Secrets of a Sun King