On Thursday 2nd March, there were a wide variety
of wonderful book characters wandering around in Year 6. The fantastic costumes
ranged from Gangsta Grannies (from David Walliam’s novel ‘Gangsta Granny’) to The
Queen of Hearts (from Lewis Carol’s ‘Alice in Wonderland’) to Newt Scamander
(J.K. Rowling’s fictional author of ‘Dangerous Beasts and Where to Find Them’).
J. K. Rowling’s characters were particularly popular, so much so that the year
6 classrooms looked more like Hogwarts than Chilcote! Staff from year 6 came
dressed as characters from the year group novel ‘Goodnight Mister Tom’.
One activity from the day involved the children learning a
poem off by heart. As Year 6 have recently been researching and writing about
animal rights in English lessons, they learnt ‘Blake’s Tiger Revisited’ which
is a poem about how tigers in captivity gradually lose their colour. The poet
took inspiration from William Blake’s ‘The Tyger’ and the children had the
opportunity to compare the two poems.
Once they had performed their memorised poems, the pupils had
the chance to take part in a poetry workshop with a visiting young poet called
Jess. After listening to some of her originals and playing rhyming games, the children
wrote their own poem entitled ‘I came from…’ which they shared with one
another.
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