April 2022
We kicked off April with a highly anticipated visit to see Gangsta Granny at the theatre; this linked with our Tales Retold resilience project! In English, we’ve looked at building tension in our writing and have switched our focus in writing to trying to invoke a specific response in our reader – we enjoyed sharing our scary stories with year one! As it was Easter this month, we took part in an eggcellent easter-egg hunt! This month was when we held our space and inventors theme day where we followed lines of enquiries whilst inventing catapults, created our own planets and pitched our inventions to the rest of the class.
This month, in English, we have been looking at persuasive texts and have thought about what it means to be persuasive; we have discovered various techniques (used by professional advertising companies) and have applied these to our own persuasive writes. We have also created persuasive speeches to help consolidate this learning. Linking with our North America topic, we have been learning about Andy Warhol’s printing and pop-art: we have created our own repeated prints in Warhol’s style. This month we also began an exciting, new project in English – Tales Retold. Within this project, we’re learning to develop oracy and drama skills through the lens of storytelling. This has helped us to be mindful of the resilience framework. Some of us were lucky enough to take part in Bikeability where we learnt to ride on the roads and increased our cycling proficiency! In PE, we’ve been looking at high, medium, and low movements – we have acted out stories that we wrote in our first unit of English and have performed these to our peers.
