Blog by Tag: English

After reading The Little Red Hen, we looked at different types of bread. We looked at the texture,  the colour and what we thought about each one. 

In a few weeks, we are going to write a fantasy story so today we looked at different household objects and discussed how they could be incorporated into our stories with magical powers. We had lots of ideas.

This afternoon, Year 2 went dragon hunting around the school. We found quite a few and we’re using prepositions to describe where we found them.

under the cone

behind the book shelf

amongst the books

We have been reading the story and the poem of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.  Last week we learnt some of the first verse off by heart.  We hope you enjoy it!

We enjoyed exploring the classroom for bossy verbs, these were spotted through our instructions.

We really enjoyed making our own adventures with Traction Man.

Year 6 are currently learning about some of the World War 1 war poets in their literacy lessons. We have been interested to discover that one of the poets, Laurence Binyon, was born in Lancaster (and has a street named after him, just down the road from school). His most famous poem is “For the…

This term in Year 6 we have been reading the story “Stay Where You Are and then Leave” by John Boyne. As we near the end of the novel, we have decided to test each other’s knowledge of the story by writing our own quizzes on Purple Mash. Once they have been created, we will be able to share them…

To celebrate National Poetry Day, the poet Tony Peek came to Scotforth and visited Year 3 (as well as all the other classes!)  He performed lots of his poems (we particularly enjoyed his funny ones!) and helped us to write some alliteration poems and rhymes. We are looking forward to reading his…

Today we celebrated National Poetry Day with a visit from the poet Tony Peek. He shared lots of his poems and stories at a whole school assembly this morning and then visited each class for a workshop during the day. He read from his books and then we wrote lots of different poems using…

We enjoyed a visit from the poet and author, Tony Peek today at school. He shared some of his poems and songs with us. We did some amazing fish dancing and laughed a lot. 

Today we have had a visit from Tony Peek, a poet. We have listen to lots of amazing poems and even had a go at writing some of our own.