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Today the children used their performing skills to practise and perform their Christmas acrostic poems. They worked hard in partners to use loud voices, actions and eye contact to keep the audience interested.

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Today Year 2 have been inspired by the book 'The Knight and the Dragon' and created shields, armour and weapons to help the Faithful Friends defeat dragons!

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Today Year 2 were busy creating new vehicles to help Granny Island get around the Isle of Struay. The children have been creating codes and inventions based around Katie Morag.

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This half term, Year 6 have started learning to write suspense narratives. They have read The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, watched The Simpsons version of it, and also practised writing spooky stories based on a video we watched called Francis.

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Year 2 have been embarking on their new quest. Today they created their own Curious Quests map with ideas of pathways, hidden treasures and adventures they may have along the way.

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Year 4 immersed themselves in Tudor life. They created Tudor homes and will be using all their vocabulary and knowledge to go on to write a story set in Tudor times.

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Year 2 went to St Edmundsbury Cathedral to learn all about St Edmund. The children will be using this trip as inspiration to write recounts of their great day!

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Year 1 are continuing their journey on The Curious Quests. They continue to play and invent to inspire their writing.

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After reading A Mid Summer Night's Dream, the children in Year 2 created their own magical fairies. These will be their inspiration for character description writing later in our unit of work.

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Today the children in Year 2 enjoyed the Jolly Postman book and then looked at example letters from home to find the main features of them.

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Year 4 spent the day at the Schools Farming Fair. They immersed themselves in farming life and will use this trip to write diary entries later in the unit.

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Today Year 2 learnt a road safety poem and practised performing it before creating a whole class version. 

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In Year 4 the children enjoyed making their own chocolate truffles. They worked carefully to focus on the vocabulary needed to be successful, ready to use this when writing instructions later in the unit of work. Yum!

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Year 4 used their chocolate truffle immersion lessons to inspire their instruction writing.

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Year 5 carried out research on animals to find out what biome it comes from, its diet and whether it is a social animal or not. They used this information to design an enclosure for the animal, labelling all the features to explain why they're there. Then, they worked in groups to design a zoo map, thinking about where each animal will live and if it could be with other animals, or grouped near other animals from the same biome. Some groups have even designed logos, leaflets, posters and information boards to use in their zoo!

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In writing this half term, Year 5 have been focused on animal conservation. After researching and writing a biography about David Attenborough, they were then given a new task - to design a zoo!

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Today we learnt about the space explorer Neil Armstrong. We then followed instructions to build our own rockets. We will use these to help us write detailed instructions for others to follow.

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Wow! Look at some of the writing the children in Early Years have been doing. They have been using their phonics to write lists. What a good job.

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Look who turned up in Early Years! The children have been enjoying the story 'The Tiger who came to Tea'

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The children continued on their immerse journey today. They used their pet selections from yesterday to persuade us they had chosen the perfect pirate pet. They used all their knowledge about that animal to try their best to convince us! We listened carefully whilst everyone shared their ideas.

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Today Year 2 have read Pirate's Perfect Pet and been inspired to choose their perfect pet if they were a pirate. The children used laptops to search for their perfect pet, copy the image, paste it and print it out. A great immerse lesson!

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Today the children created erupting volcanoes to inspire their newspaper reports based on Pompeii. They developed a range of vocabulary that they can then use within their writing.

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The Year 3 children have been creating volcano artwork using oil pastels and chalks. The children will be using this artwork to inspire poetry writing further along in the unit.

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This half term, Year 5's writing is going to be inspired by video games. They have watched Wreck-It Ralph to think about the different settings and characters in video games. They then designed their own characters and even made a game in Scratch!

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Year 6 watched a short film called 'Francis' and using this, they designed the character that they think is hiding under the boat. This will be used to help with their creativity when create stories later in the unit.

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In preparation for writing biographies of famous performers, the Woodpeckers immersed themselves in becoming songwriters and performers. They adapted songs with their own lyrics and then performed them to an instrumental version.

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In preparation for writing biographies of famous performers, the Nightingales immersed themselves in becoming songwriters and performers. They adapted songs with their own lyrics and then performed them to an instrumental version.

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This week the Curious Quest continues.... The children have met the Faithful friends who they will help along the quest. Today they designed homes for them. I wonder where you think the Faithful friends might live?

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Year 2 have been acting out pirate scenes to immerse themselves in how pirates behave and what they would say. They will use these ideas to help them write fantastic adventure stories.

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Year 2 watched a pirate short film to gather as much information and vocabulary as they could about pirates. We made class lists of adjectives to use in their writing later! What fantastic words the children came up with.

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Year 2 followed a treasure map to lead them to the treasure! They found a challenge! Their challenge is to write a pirate adventure story for EYFS children to enjoy.

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Year 5 were set the challenge of becoming actors and actresses this week during their immerse lessons. The children used persuasive language to create a TV advert for travelling to space! All this practise helped them create a bank of vocabulary for them to use later in their unit.

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In Year 4, the children have been exploring rhetorical questions before they start to learn about advertisements. I wonder how persuasive they can be?

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As part of their immersion, Year 3 took part in a Stone Age themed Forest Schools session. They built shelters, made fire and even created cave paintings. All the vocabulary and knowledge they gained form this experience will be really useful when they write character descriptions and fact files!

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Year 2 immersed themselves in Julia Donaldson's The Snail and the Whale. They children discussed the story and how the characters were feeling. They also found out more information about sea snails.

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Year 6 carried out a mock trial creating arguments for the defence and the prosecution. They argued whether the Three Little Pigs were guilty for boiling the Big Bad wolf or not. All this vocabulary will be great for later in their unit! Well done Year 6.

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Year 5 have been taking down witness accounts whilst investigating an alien invasion to ensure they have the correct information to write a newspaper report! Wow!

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Year 5 have been investigating an alien invasion today as part of their immerse lessons!

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Year 4 drama work based on Romeo and Juliet. The children were inspired by Marcia Williams' comic strip version of this Shakespeare play.

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Year 4 immersed themselves in Shakespeare. They used their drama skills to act out parts of Romeo and Juliet

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Year 1 Have been writing 'codes' to go with their inventions. They then read their code to Professor Klunk to add to his big story dream machine! 

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Year 1 have been inventing today.  They used their imaginations to create their own inventions inspired by The Curious Quests!

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Year 1 have started their Curious Quests journey this week. They have been deciding what they think Professor Klunk will look like. What do you think?

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Year 1 have been communicating with Professor Klunk via the messaging centre! I wonder what magical things will appear in the magic mustard tin?

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Year 1 have been reading Little Rabbit Foo Foo and inventing! Even our reluctant writers love to come to Drawing Club!

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Look at the World War Two diary writing that has been happening in Year 6!

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Year 6's learning has led to them creating World War Two diary entries. Look at their hard work!

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Year 5 have been creating Myths and Legend stories based on their class text Beowulf.

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Look at where Year 3's learning has taken them! They have been inspired by their immerse sessions and created rainforest stories. Look at their published work!

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Year 2 have been creating character descriptions of Goldilocks. They have been trying hard to use adjectives.

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The children were inspired to write today all by themselves. It is fantastic to see their joy, enthusiasm and confidence in writing grow.

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The children were working hard outside today to write their names.

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Today the children were WOW writers, amazing artists and confident communicators.

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Look at EYFS warming up their bodies ready to become WOW writers!

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The children found the book 'Don't Wake the Bear'. I wonder what all the bears are doing?

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Year 1 have been inspired by The Wacky Races this week! The children have talked about and created lots of ideas in Drawing Club linked to this theme. 

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Look at the wonderful artwork created by Year 3 in immerse this week!

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During the immersion stage of writing, Year 3 were inspired by two artists, John Dyer and Nixiwaka Yawanawa. They created their own rainforest artwork. 

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Look at the magical stories Year 4 have created. They used the dragons they created as one of the main characters.

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All of Year4 have worked hard to created a fantasy story based on dragons. What a fantastic job they have done!

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Look at the fantastic dragons Year 4 designed during their immerse lessons.

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Year 4 have designed their own dragons as part of their immerse stage in writing! 

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Wow! look at all the hard work Year 6 are doing so far this year. I can't wait to see what their final pieces of writing are like....

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Inspired by the Matilda musical, Year 5 created their own diaries.

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Year 5 created marvelous diaries based on Matilda!

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Look! Year 3 found a visitor in their classroom this week. He has inspired the children to learn about deforestation.

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The children have created their own iron giant and written non chronological reports about them.

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Year 3 have been inspired by their class text Iron Man. 

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Year 2 were busy learning how to write a set of instructions carefully. 

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Look how inspired the children were to write in Drawing Club this week. What do you think the baddies look like?

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Year 1 have watched an episode of Bananaman and they have been creating their own superhero stories together.

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Year 1 have been busy in Drawing Club this week. We have been inspired by our book Billy the Beast.

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Year 1 have been reading Billy the Beast and using this book to inspire our writing in Drawing Club.

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Read our beautiful beach poems! Can you spot the adjectives we have tried to usea

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Year 1 created acrostic poems all about the beach! What do you think?

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The children made posters to help them try to find bear who was lost!

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The children in EYFS were very excited to find a bear had landed in a rocket in the woods!