English In English this week we have been continuing to look at poetry and our focus this week has been on form and structure. We have looked at the different poem structures and syllables. More specifically, we have explored haikus and shape poems. They have really developed their poetry skills...

English In English this week we have been learning about imagery in poetry. This is when poets create images in poetry using poetic devices such as figurative language. The figurative language techniques we have learnt about this week are similes, metaphors and personification. The children have...

English In English this week we have continued to learn how to write a 5 part story. This week we have been learning how to create suspense in the build-up section of our fantasy stories. We have learnt to use rhetorical questions, short snappy sentences, dramatic sentence openers and the way the...

English In English this week, we have started reading our new class text… ‘Ice Palace’ by Robert Swindells. This wintery fantasy story is going to support our narrative writing throughout the term. We have been focusing on ‘WOW’ adjectives and turning our ideas int...

English In English this week, we have started looking at non-chronological reports. We have started writing our reports using characters for ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. We have been focusing on subheadings and categorising information correctly depending on the topic of information...

English In English this week, we began reading our new text ‘The Iron Man’ by Ted Hughes. The children love the story so far! They are starting to find out that a large, iron robot might be a gentle giant after all… Alongside reading, we have been looking at character...