As part of our book week activities, KS2 children visited the nursery, reception and the KS1 classes to share some reading time.

Class reading exchange.wmv

Every year Film Education organises a nationwide film festival called National Schools Film Week. It is the biggest event of its kind in the World with 400,000 children watching over 200 films at 2,300 screenings in 560 locations throughout the UK!

As Year 5/6 is currently focusing on film based narratives, we took the opportunity to take part in this festival. Year 5/6 visited the Odeon cinema where they watched Bolt and Bridge to Terabithia.

Everyone really enjoyed both films and they provided plenty of discussion and opportunities for follow up work. It also highlighted just how much can be gained from being together and having fun outside of the classroom setting.

All the hard work put in by Year 6 pupils and staff finally paid off yesterday when Year 6 entertained family and friends with their end of year production called School Daze.

SATs Guide
http://www.satsguide.co.uk
A website that contains how-to's on nearly every subject and tips that will help you improve your score and make studying for SATS enjoyable.

ICT Teachers
http://www.icteachers.co.uk/children/children_sats.htm
The ICT Teachers site has lots of KS2 SATs practice questions.

BBC Bitesize
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/
Resources from the BBC covering English, Maths and Science.

Woodlands Junior School
http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/revision/
Includes sample questions taken from past Key Stage 2 SATs papers, as well as a whole host of interactive tests/quizzes.

Science Essentials
http://www.channel4learning.net/sites/essentials/science/index.shtml
Find out loads more about science by investigating the three areas: Choose Life, Material World and Get Physical.

KS2 Maths Tutor
http://www.legend.yorks.com/~calverms/contents.htm
Shape, Space and Measures revision.

Spell It
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/activities_y5/activity1.shtml
Interactive online activities and printable resources which teach spelling strategies, rules and patterns.

Today Year 5 made the most of the beautiful spring day by creating poetry inspired by their springtime surroundings.

They spent time outdoors and every child was encouraged to take a digital photo of a verdant symbol of the season.

"Death shall come on swift wings to him that toucheth the tomb of Pharaoh."

So reads a totally imaginary inscription supposedly in the tomb of Tutankhamen. This is one of a number of curses that Year 5/6 AT looked at when finding out about Ancient Egyptian curses. The children enjoyed reading the curses so much that they decided to have a go at writing their own.

Read the curses if you dare!

Click to open curse

As part of their literacy lessons, Year 4 looked at forms of poetry. They studied several different forms, including:
• Rhyming couplets
• Shape or concrete poetry
• Haiku
• Epitaphs
• Limericks
• Narrative poetry

They then tried to write poems using some of the forms we have studied. Have a look below and see what you think.

As part of their work on language play, Year 3 recently wrote some riddles. Riddles play with language by giving clues about what it is describing without saying what it is.

Mrs Haughton modelled writing a riddle first then the children thought-showered what they could write their own riddles about before writing them up.

What do you think?

This term Miss Taylor’s English group have been busy exploring and performing poetry.

They spent time reading and evaluating a range of poems before moving onto creating their own. They decided that Homer Simpson was a great subject for their poems and had lots of fun thinking up verses to describe his favourite pastime – eating.

The children then worked in small groups to plan, organise and create a poetry presentation of their Homer Simpson poem. They then used actions and sound effects to enhance their poem’s meaning.

Miss Taylor captured the performances on camera . Make sure you check the website over the next few days and you will be able to view the videos of the young poets in action.