Year 3 & 4

This week… In English, we started with creating a plan for an explanation text on Scientific topics. We carefully planned each section to inform the readers in an engaging manner.…

This week… In English, we continued with our unit on non-fiction text. We published our local area guides. Then we began to look at explanation texts; we explored the features…

In English, we wrote different sections for a local area guide to encourage people to move to Thornton Heath or Croydon. Over the week, we looked at different writing components,…

Welcome back after half term! In English, we began our new unit on non-fiction text. The first week started with a focus on the features of holiday brochures. We moved…

We finished, this half term, with an investigative and creative week; completing our Big Write short adventure stories, investigating weather in computing, creating body percussion pieces in music and designing…

In English, the children focused on writing a short adventure extract. The children considered various features to aid their writing, such as describing their setting using expanded noun phrases, using…

This week… In English, the children focused on the recent writing techniques through ‘slow writing’. This allowed the children the opportunity to focus on how to use the techniques to…

This week… In English, the children focused on using the ‘Rule of 3’ to write a setting description. They considered using an appositive to describe a character and were able…

This week… In English, we explored the impact of words on the reader through descriptive writing. We worked in small groups to generate ideas to describe the Amazon rainforest using…

In English, we focused on using powerful phrases, developing prediction skills and understanding the impact of word choice. The children were able to describe a setting using powerful adjectives, expanded…