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On Friday 15th May, 2009, Class 3D had their last class assembly. They included many things that they have learnt so far. Some children read their Kennings poems while others acted out a play of The Three Little Pigs. They also learnt a great deal about Vikings which they enjoyed very much, so a amall group of children acted out how the Vikings attacked and raided a monastery. They all enjoyed being part of the assembly and loved performing!
In Literacy this half term, 5C have been studying Classic Narrative Poetry. We have based our work on a poem by Alfred Noyes called the Highway Man. We have created scenes, written metaphors and similes, carried out character interviews, created freeze frames using the Apple Mac computers and written our own verses for the poem. We now understand that a narrative poem tells a story and know how to use metaphors and similes in our writing.
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The highway man galloped on his breath taking black horse. Clip clop clip clop the horse dragged his feet along the thick and long grass.
The highway man could not see a thing, he could only hear the crooked trees swishing and swaying. Despite having to go down the misty, foggy path, the highway man did not stop at all.
The moon shone and sparkled all through the night, the fog grew thicker and thicker, the mist gleamed on the dull trees and the stars twinkled every second.
Ellie E 5C
The moon was shining brightly in the black midnight sky. The highwayman was galloping boldly across the purple moor. He could hear King George’s soldiers, as he was riding, riding on his noble steed. You could see the sleek clothes bouncing up and down. The eerie clouds caught the ghostly moon’s brightness in the black sky. The tree branches were like knurled fingers, as he rode off.
Connor M 5c
As the blinding moon floated across the misty clouds, bold boots strode silently over the smooth shiny road. The twisted bare trees swayed neatly as the cold wind blew them. The mixed sound of boots and hooves both fearless blended with the whistling sound of grass from the fresh moor. With one last breath of the wide, cold night sky he vanished; not a sound to hear nor a smell or touch his presence was no longer available in the eerie, foggy wild landscape.
Ellie R 5c
The moon shone like a diamond on the road, where the highway man galloped on. The crooked trees stood awkwardly on the deadly grass. The ghostly mist covered the hills in the distance. After a while the purple moor stood mysteriously on the floor. As time went by the path started to shine brightly.
Chloe K 5C
Click on the links below to see more work by Class 5E on The Highwayman.
Podcasting
Year 4 have been learning how to write stories with a dilemma – a difficult choice. Before we began our writing we listened to a story called ‘Journey to Jo’burg’. The story is set in South Africa during the time of apartheid. The characters had to make many difficult decisions. We hot-seated as characters and asked questions about some of the dilemmas they were faced with. These were recorded as podcasts.
Click on the link below to listen to our first ever podcast!
During their literacy lessons, Year 3 have been writing poetry in the style of a Kennings poem. Kennings poems are descriptive poems that only have 2 words in a line and two lines in a stanza. It describes something without mentioning what it is.
Football
Trophies awarded
Goal saver
Play rough
Slide tackles
Penalty takers
Free kicks
Corners given
People crowded
Yellow cards
Red cards
Goal kicks
shouty people
by Jack D
Maisie
Sweet eater
Friends maker
Puppy lover
Superstar lover
Game liker
Super swimmer
Brown hair
Movie liker
Trampoline liker
Holiday liker
Flipper lover
Zebra lover
Pizza eater
Burgereater
Long hair
Bit tall
By Maisie
Bartosz
Skateboard rider
Bike rider
Golf player
Apple eater
Mc Donald’s lover
Play station player
Simsons watcher
Sweets eater
Chocolate melter
Shoping liker
Fruit eater
By Bartosz A
Campbell
Tea drinker
Bed liker
Game player
Sweet corn eater
Harry Potter lover
Cake liker
Blue Green eyes
Light Brown
By Campbell
Click on the links below to see more fantastic Kennings poems from Year 3….
FAHIM K
During their Literacy lessons, Class 4G have been looking at stories set in imaginary worlds. They discussed the settings, atmosphere and characters within the stories. Before attempting to write their own tales, Mrs Greeff gave the class some clay to make their imaginary characters and visualise them. The class had great fun and produced some wonderful sculptures as you can see from the pictures below.
In science we have been learning about solids and liquids so we decided to show the rest of the school what we have been doing in our class assembly. We had a human dictionary who told us what words mean. We had mad scientists with mad hair, it was great! We all enjoyed our assembly. One person in the audience got covered in paper because he was sitting at the side. Then the person who threw it had to pick it all up by himself.
Callum
In science we are learning about liquids and solids and did this for our class assembly. Joe, Kai and me were mad scientists. We had to mix solids and liquids such as sugar with water. We also used a sieve to separate sand and stones. I was a mad scientist. my mum came to watch. It was great.
Frankie
ON Friday 27th of March we had our class assembly. The assembly was connected to our science topic solids and liquids. In our assembly Maria was our human dictionary and she told everybody about liquids and solids. Joe, Frankie, Kai, Niamh and Daryl were our scientists in the assembly who mixed solids and liquids. After that Hannah and Taylor were shaking the bottles of coloured water. It was very exciting
Reianna.
Class 4m have been learning about solids and liquids in science. In are class assembly We had a human dictionary who told us what some words mean. We had 5 mad scientist who demonstrated solids dissolving into liquids such as salt dissolving into water. We had to show filtering and sieving. All the school and parents watched us.
By Joe 4m
