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This week we enjoyed a virtual visit from Levi Tafari to celebrate Mother Tongue Day @LeviTafariPoet @pleasantstwrite @pleasantstreads

This morning we explored some new vocabulary and deducted meanings by using their synonyms @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

Excellent recall of our knowledge around formal and informal writing with an online test from @grammarmonster @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

Using drama to explore settings @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

Lots of fantastic immersion work this week, as the children read Anthony Browne’s ‘Into the Forest’. @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

@C7Pleasant thought of our own stories in the style of Paper Planes. Tomorrow we are going to read our story to our friends. @PleasantStPrim @LiteracyCounts1 @pleasantstwrite

In today’s English lesson, Class 6 are annotating an example newspaper story and engaging in discussions about how they’ll use reported speech when they write their own reports, as well what other important features they’ll include. @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

Great to see some brilliant phonics and writing on show in @RecPleasant from 8:30am this morning. Keep up the hard work everyone 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @pleasantstwrite @pleasantstreads @PleasantStPrim

Excellent open discussions with our critical friends as we reviewed and began to edit our own 'flashback narrative' in the style of @gill__lewis's A Story Like The Wind. @LiteracyCounts1 @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

Year 5 have been working on writing, editing and evaluating their character descriptions this week @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

Great to see our young @pleasantstwrite honing their skills, using different resources, throughout the day. Keep up the hard work guys 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 @ComputingPSt @PleasantStPrim

We loved @Grammarsaurus1’s inverted commas song this morning for a little revision before using direct and reported speech @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

📚 Class 2 had the pleasure of @csoundar reading ‘Tiger Troubles’ to us. Thank you so much 📚@ReadingatLLP. @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

We’ve been learning new vocabulary this week from ‘Jemmy Button’ and practising writing sentences with subordinate clauses! @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

We’ve been doing some drama today as part of our English work @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite @LiteracyCounts1

We worked hard to figure out our spelling words this afternoon!! @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

Working hard to look for adverbs in our new text @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite

@C7Pleasant today we looked at hook items from our new story by @JimHelmore ‘Paper Planes @LiteracyCounts1 @pleasantstwrite @PleasantStPrim

We read the vehicle text ‘Jemmy Button’ today. We spoke about our opinions and discussed the questions we have about the text. @pleasantstwrite @LiteracyCounts1 @PleasantStPrim

We had some brilliant ideas. Some of us made comparisons to books we have previously read together too @PleasantStPrim @pleasantstwrite @LiteracyCounts1