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Exploring Poetry in KS1

Exploring Poetry in KS1

Robins and Owls have been exploring a poem called ‘He She’ by Clare Bevan. They have been looking at the vocabulary she uses and practising their expression. This week they took turns to act out the roles of the two children in the poem thinking about...
Developing Oracy in Oaks

Developing Oracy in Oaks

Today, children in Oaks took on a ‘conversation comprehension’ to develop their oracy skills. Everyone read a text about peculiar pets and then the children worked in groups with each child taking on a different role in a ‘Round Robin’ style...
Stand and Deliver! The Highwayman in Elms

Stand and Deliver! The Highwayman in Elms

This half term in Elms, we have been reading and enjoying Alfred Noyes’s classic poem, ‘The Highwayman’. Last week and this week, we have planned, drafted, edited and published our own descriptions of the highwayman. See below for some of the many...