World Book Day Year 6

Year 6 had a very different day today as they celebrated all things related to reading as part of ‘World Book Day’! 

Firstly, everyone had the opportunity to salute their favourite book by dressing up as a character or by creating an information poster about their chosen text (in the hope that their recommendation would inspire others to read their chosen book). Even the teachers got into the spirit and dressed up as characters from The Hobbit; The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas; and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy. 

It was then time for the highlight of the day, which was the opportunity to work with Jess Green - a special guest poet - who had been invited to Chilcote to inspire the children's writing and performing. As part of Jess's fun and informative workshop, Year 6 pupils explored how to write more creatively and then practised performing poetry out loud to a large audience. 

Well done Year 6 for such a memorable ‘World Book Day 2019’!

World Book Day in Year 6

On Thursday 2^nd 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.

World Book Day in Year 2

Year 2 have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day today. We dressed up as characters from our favourite stories and some of us brought our books in to share. If you came to year 2, you might have seen Batman, Matilda, Pocahontas or even the BFG! We spent time finding out about each other’s costumes and stories.

We also found out about nonsense poems and read a few together. We have used actions and learnt the beginning of the poem ‘On the Ning-Nang-Nong’ by Spike Milligan.

At the end of the day, we had an assembly taken by poet Jess Green. She shared one of her poems with us and we found out a bit about what it is like to be a poet.

We would like to take this opportunity to share with you some of the poetry we have been writing in Year 2 this term, all on the theme of the circus.