2025-2026 | West Boldon Primary School

Year 2 Autumn 2 Focus Text

5th November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

As we run up to Christmas time, Year 2 will be reading the festive story ‘Coming Home’ by Michael Morpurgo.

It is an exciting adventure story about a brave little robin’s long journey home battling through storms, oceans and terrifying hawk attacks.

During the half term we will be writing non chronological reports about robins, diary writing from different characters perspectives and retelling scenes using exciting verbs. In line with Talk for Writing, we will be retelling the story using actions and phrases before innovating the story and changing different elements to create our own narrative.

Here is a video of author Michael Morpurgo telling the story:

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Reception Autumn 2 Focus Text

4th November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Over the course of the Autumn 2 half term, Reception are looking at journey stories with a main Focus on ‘Handa’s Surprise‘ by Eileen Browne.

It is a story about a little girl who puts seven delicious fruits in a basket to take to her friend.

The children are going to focus on retelling stories and engaging in conversation about the story. The children will be using their phonics to help them write simple sentences.

Watch the video of the story below.

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Year 1 and 1/2 Autumn 2 Focus Text

2nd November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This next term in Year 1 we are going to be reading ‘Lost and Found’ by Oliver Jeffers.

This was a favourite of ours in Reception and we cannot wait to start doing some fantastic work in our Literacy lessons!

We are going to be looking at writing lists, in particular a list of what might be in our suitcases if we were characters in the story. We are going to create some brilliant pieces of work this term.

Watch a reading of Lost and Found below:

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Year 4 Autumn 2 Focus Text

2nd November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This half term, Year 4 will be reading ‘The Firework Maker’s Daughter’ by Phillip Pullman.

The story is a wonderful adventure which mixes old and modern fairy tales together. It features the main character Lila, who is on a quest to follow in her father’s footsteps and become a great firework maker. She must journey to get Royal Sulphur from Razvani the Fire-Fiend at Mount Merapi, a journey which is filled with peril and wonder.

For the first few weeks Year 4 will be focussing on character descriptions of the main character and letter writing to Lila’s father using the skills we developed in the first half term. We will then learn about the features and structure of a narrative. We will write setting descriptions and include them when we write a missing chapter about the Fire-Fiend.

Watch a reading of the story below:

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Year 6 Autumn 2 Focus Text

2nd November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

After completing our first novel, ‘My Dad’s a Birdman’, Year 6 will be reading ‘The Island’ by Armin Greder.

This is a powerful graphic novel for all ages about how human beings respond to outsiders. When the people of the Island discover a man and a tattered raft on their beach, they are reluctant to take him in. He doesn’t look like them. But they cannot send him back to the sea where he will surely perish. Instead, they put him aside but even that doesn’t solve their problem.

From this we will complete reading journal sessions where we will delve deeper into the meanings behind the book, improve our comprehension skills and look at the vocabulary. We will write a debate during our literacy lessons.

For a critical review on ‘The Island’ watch the video below.

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Year 3 Autumn 2 Focus Text

2nd November 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

During the Autumn 2 half term, Year 3 will be reading ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine‘ by Roald Dahl.

We will be writing our own instructions for our own ‘marvellous’ creations using Roald Dahl style language, before moving on to writing and performing our own poems based on the book.

Watch the book trailer for George’s Marvellous Medicine below:

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What can we learn from visiting a Synagogue?

27th October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Year 2 have been finding out about why a Synagogue is a special place for Jews. They learnt about different features found in this place of worship and were able to write sentences to describe how these features were used.

We also found out about Jewish foods eaten during festivals celebrated at the Synagogue.

Pollution

27th October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

Children in Year 2 have been looking at Pollution in our world and how it can affect our local community. They created some posters to tell other children in our school about Pollution.

Muscles and joints

23rd October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This week in Science we began learning about what makes Usain Bolt so quick as part of our Animals Including Humans topic.

We learned that to run fast we need really strong muscles and to be very physically fit. We discovered that muscles work in pairs to contract and relax, to enable our bodies to move. We also learned about two specific type of joint found in the human body; the ball and socket joint, and the hinge joint.

We then went outside with the iPads and struck a pose, then in small groups we labelled each of the muscles and joints we had used using the Seesaw app.

Take a look at our awesome work below.

Super subtraction!

23rd October 2020Miss K. Wilkinson

This week in Year 3 we have moved on from Place Value and began our next unit, Addition and Subtraction.

We have looked at patterns in adding multiples of 100; for instance, to solve 300 + 200 we can use 3 + 2 to help us.

We then began looking at adding and subtracting 3-digit numbers and ones. We noticed that when not crossing 10, only the ones digit will change.

This enabled most of us to work out these quite tricky fluency questions in our heads! Look at our fabulous work!