We use a variety of teaching and learning styles in our lessons. Children have opportunities to study a wide range of texts and use a range of resources to support their work.
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Here upper KS2 work with KS1 children, helping them to reflect on their writing. Drafting and editing to improve its content. |
Having an audience for work is stimulating. Children acted on advice given and the quality of writing was further enhanced. |
Following a number of extensive pre-reading experiences, our children are taught a variety of methods to read and understand progressively more demanding material.
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Comunication is the vital key to understanding. A school focus is the speaking and listening skills of our children, with many opportunities for drama. Here are some examples of the drama the children have been doing.
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Story Maps The children used this visual aid ( a story map) along with specific actions to retell the story of 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'. |
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Freeze frames Individual children or groups represent characters at a significant moment. Sequential frames can be used to represent the key events in a story.
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Glove Puppets and Shadow Theatre Children use puppets to make and tell stories. children can reflect on their use of language and voices.
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Telephone conversations Children act in role of characters from a story for example. Usually done back to back, children could be asked to pass on information, discuss a problem or describe an event. |
Hot Seating Hot seating involves the calss in asking questions of someone in role as a character, fictional or historical who sits in the 'hot seat'. |
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Barrier games - giving and receiving instructions. Children sit back to back. One child (speaker) gives clear information/ explicit instructions to the listener. The listener has to ask questions to help understanding and gain information. For example, speaker has to describe object, picture, character or setting that the listener has to draw. Alternatively a speaker can give directions from one map while the listener draws the route on a blank version of the same map. |
Conscience Alley This involves one child in role as a particular character walks down the 'alley'. Children voice the character's thoughts for and against a particular decision or action the character is facing, acting as his/her conscience. |
Story Characters - The Scarecrow, Cat in the Hat, Willy Wonka, Puss in Boots and Robin Hood.
Bi-annually we hold a 'Story Week'. Click here to find out more.