This week, 6G began reading the new text for the term. They worked through many skills within reading comprehension activities and worked up to answering 2/3 mark questions including those which asked what the purpose of punctuation within the sentence was. Excellent discussions have taken place and...

This week we started reading Kenzuke's Kingdom. We predicted, questioned and clarified before we wrote the story opening in different styles. We really wanted to hook the reader and so wrote a setting opener, dialogue opener and action opener. Some children even wrote from a diffe...

During English today, the children took on the role of the Queen and the BFG within a drama activity. They had to imagine they were talking at the window of Buckingham palace knowing when to be formal or informal. 6G took great delight in speaking using nonsense words as the BFG and also using the s...

This week began with year 6 pupils all going to see the BFG at the palace cinema down Broadstairs sea front. It was a very funny film that everyone enjoyed seeing and a great way to finish our English topic on Roald Dahl. In our English lessons, year 6 have been creating a piece of writing based...

In English today, we wrote a set of instructions for an alien so they could make a pudding called worms in dirt. Before we wrote the instructions, we actually made it using angel delight, oreos and gummy worms. We crushed, mixed, whisked and poured and then left them to set whilst we wrote up the se...