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.
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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).
Team AF 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 AF, the creative writing centred around designing persuasive adverts to encourage tourists to visit the nature reserve and generate profits for school. Parents were very engaged in the session and enjoyed contributing to their child's learning and developing a greater sense of how writing is taught at Park Street.
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 Just a quick message to say how proud we are of all our Park Street pupils. The students have all made a tremendous start to the academic year and have given their absolute all during writing. Love of writing has been clear to see throughout school, with children writing for many purposes and audiences. Classes have ensured that the work they have produced has been shared and heard by others, and have loved engaging with the new texts that are driving their writing. We have certainly seen some clear improvements in vocabulary choices, sentence structures and handwriting! We know that the children of Park Street will continue to give their absolute all next term as new writing challenges await them.
This week our children have been working exceptionally hard in their Christmas Performances for parents. It most definitely deserves recognition on our writing blog as so much writing has taken place to support this. Children have written their own poems, scripts and stories to share in the performances, and what an incredible job they have done! Well done Team Park Street - you never fail to amaze us!
During the Spring Term, classes from Year 2-6 will invite parents back in to the classroom! As part of engaging our young writers, and offering support to parents around the teaching of writing in school, we will be holding parental and pupil workshops with a focus on creative writing. There will be a theme running across all year groups which will be led by class teachers. Parents are then encouraged to support their child with their creative writing piece following input from the session. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for a letter coming out next week with more information on how you can attend these sessions.
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