English

Playing games and verbally rehearsing our sentences to improve our sentence structures in Year 5.

Beech class are really enjoying our new text ‘The man who walked between the towers’. We watched a video clip showing what it would have been like for Phillippe Petit crossing a tightrope between the towers of the World Trade Centre and then we gathered powerful vocabulary ready for our writing tomorrow.

We loved our visit from Word Guerrilla today.  We listened to him perform his poetry and then we took part in a workshop to create our own rap poetry.  It was great fun!

We played a game of Deal or No Deal to see if the relative clause sentences made sense when we left out the relative pronoun.

In English, we play games to help us to understand different sentence structures.  Today we worked on embedding relative clauses.

We have started our work on the text Hidden Figures by finding out all about the work of NASA.  We have immersed our self in reading about the careers available at NASA and the kind of skills you would require to work there.  We worked together in our groups to record useful information from our reading, which will help us with our writing of a job advert.

To launch the start of ‘What’s your story, Chorley?’, we were visited today by Susan Brownrigg, author of the Gracie Fairshaw series of books. She told us all about how her family and love of Blackpool inspired her to write her stories.  She also read a chapter from one of her books to us and answered our questions about the process of writing a book.  It has inspired us to get writing with our entries for this years competition.

We carried out a conscience alley drama convention to help us explore the dilemma from our class text- Should David and Tucky help the German bomber pilots?

Investigating the rules for whether to add able or ible.

We are learning how to write a relative clause sentence.

We researched the life of Anne Frank and created our own information reports about her life.  We are really proud of our work!

We like to have fun whilst learning our statutory spellings in Year 5....

Last week we begun work in English learning about the story of Anne Frank.  We spent time exploring the Anne Frank virtual online museum, which takes you on a 360 degree journey through the annexe where Anne and her family hid during the war.  This helped us to gather ideas for vocabulary we will use in our writing this week.

After reading the classic poem The Jabberwocky, we turned the poem into a narrative story.  Here are some examples of our writing: