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English

2023-2024

Prepositional work

Stone Age Boy linked activities- storymap, speech, hot seating and recounting

Slow paragraphs

Woolly Mammoth Hunting

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Woolly Mammoth Factfiles

Practising our spellings

Quatrain Poems

Playscript reading and acting out

Discussion Writing

Character descriptions

Speaking in role

Fables

2022-2023

Leon and the place between

Escape from Pompeii

Online chat with author and illustrator Christina Balit

Role Plays

Prepositions with our Woolly Mammoths

Postcards to Brockholes

Woolly Mammoth Fact Files

Planning Diary Recounts and Writing persuasive postcards

Preparing our ideas for our Diary Recount- Talking Trios

Comparing Sentences using The Egyptian Cinderella

Our Quatrain Poems

Learning about Quatrain Poems

Role Playing a Playscript of a fable

Sharing our own fables

Re-telling the fable The Hare and the Tortoise

The Place between here and there

Leon and the place between- Presenting our circus skills

Leon and the place between - Group discussions

Prepositions

Persuading letter- Letter to Mr Penguin

Out standing Book Area Opening

Recounts

Letters to Mary and Joseph

Letters to the three kings from Angel Gabriel

We three kings

Egyptian Cinderella

The Egyptian Cinderella

Remembrance Quatrain Poems

The Ant and the Sloth

Let us innovate.....The Ant and the Grasshopper becomes The Ant and the Sloth

The Ant and the Grasshopper

The Lion and the Mouse

The Gorilla and the Monkey

What would the animals say?

2021-2022 Acting out our fable The Hare and the Tortoise

Escaping from Pompeii

Leon and the place between

The Twits

Exploring expressions and feelings-showing and telling

The Egyptian Cinderella- Exploring Rhodopis’ feelings.

Some of our ‘Children in Need’ Quatrain Poems

Our Remembrance Day Quatrain Poems

Twisting a well known fable then turning it into a play script. Based on ‘The Boy who cried Wolf!’ here is Y3’s version of: ‘The lifeguard who cried Jellyfish !’

Writing a Play Script using a supported frame. The Snake who wanted limbs

Using stage directions- Humpty Dumpty’s conversation with Alice

Freeze framing from our playscript.

Collecting ideas for our own fable

Acting out Fables

Reciting our Hare and Tortoise Poem

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Fables Storyboard

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