Team AC 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 AC, the creative writing followed on from the book the class studied in Spring 1 - ‘The Tunnel’. The class used senses to imagine they were going out of the tunnel at the other side. They considered what they would see, hear, touch smell etc.  The nature area  was used to effect as if the class had come out into a woodland. A SPAG focus on collecting vocabulary including nouns, adjectives and adverbs to create sensory setting description was used as their overarching writing focus. Attention was paid to trying to think of different ways to start sentences. Parents all left saying they had thoroughly enjoyed the session and taken lots from it to support at home. Keep it up Team AC!

This half term Team CH have been developing their writing skills and continuing to work towards their spring objectives. The class used the story “Where the wild things are” written by Maurice Sendak as a stimulus. The children were amazed, yet terrified to see how the wild things had their royal rumbas in their classroom! Team CH really enjoyed creating their own wild things and sticking them up around the school to scare off any more wild things. Using this, the class became familiar with the story and wrote an alternative introduction for the story.  The class have also been learning how to order and spell days of the week and in their latest bit of persuasive writing they have been thinking like Max. The children imagined a world only they could visit and had great fun designing this world! Following this, they thought about how poor Mrs Longden never gets a holiday and decided that they would persuade her to visit one of their imaginary worlds.

Team CB 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 Year 3. In Team CB, the creative writing centred around the story of Octavia Bloom and the Missing Key. The children were exceptional at using their reading skills such as prediction and inference to establish where the door that Octavia created may lead to. From this, the class were transported to the unfamiliar site (the school's nature reserve) where they were tasked with developing a senses profile and using this to generate a setting description featuring expanded noun phrases to describe the scene. Parent were very complimentary over the session and super impressed with how much their children knew! Well done Team CB!

Over the term, Team JD have been working incredibly hard to develop their persuasive techniques within their writing. Throughout Spring 2 their learning has been focussed on finding key features of persuasive writing, examples of different ways these techniques are used and ultimately creating their very own piece of persuasive text.
Referring to their text driver  ‘Wildlives: 50 Animals That Made History’, the class decided that they could write a persuasive email to the British governement with the hope of supporting the animals across the world which are endangered. The class incorporated many different persuasive devices into their writing and hope their emails will help to make a difference to these animals’ lives. Team JD sent the email directly to the British Government and hope to hear from them soon.
Any further updates in terms of correspondence will follow.

During the Spring term, Team CB have been working really hard to develop their skills in writing. They have spent time completing work around their text driver Fantastic Mr Fox for Spring 1. As a class, they have created their own newspaper reports documenting the devastation caused by Boggis, Bunce and Bean as they dug up the fox' home. This allowed the class to develop skills such as using inverted commas to punctuate direct speech in the form of quotes. In addition to this, the class also produced their own alternative endings to Fantastic Mr Fox. The class had to consider the scene of Mr Fox being caught in Bean's Cider Cellar and how the outcome may have been different. Writing their own alternate endings the focus was based on high quality language choices and vary sentence starters through the use of adverbial phrases.