English

24Oct2024

This week, the children have been learning about renga, free verse and narrative poems for poetry week.  On Monday, the children learnt about renga poetry, which is a traditional form of free-verse Japanese poetry. The children learnt about how renga poems are made up of tankas, consisting of short

24Oct2024

This week has been poetry week across the whole school. Year 6 have studied poems by John Agard and discussed the messages and meanings. They particularly enjoyed trying to perform sections of his poems in a similar style to the way he had performed for an audience. After this, the children wrote tw

24Oct2024

This week has been poetry week across school. It is a week where children get to enjoy listening to poems from different poets; performing extracts from published poems; and, then writing their own poems to share. The poems are linked to the topics across school, meaning that the children have a wea

24Oct2024

It has been poetry week this week in English, and the children have been learning about Kennings poetry. This is a form of poetry where something is described without any direct reference. Kenning is an Old Norse word meaning to ‘express a thing in terms of another’. It links closely with our Viking

27Sep2024

Over the last week, Year 6 have continued to read and investigate the characters and plot within their English novel – Friend or Foe by Michael Morpurgo. The children have been enjoying the text and there has been much discussion about the characters and how they would feel at different parts in the

6Sep2024

This week, the children in Year 5 were introduced to their new English class read, ‘Beowulf’. During our book launch, the children went outside to investigate clues that had been left around to try and work out what our new book could be. The children found some old Viking letters  various Viki