English – Queen's Hill Primary School

Rotary Club of Norwich – Dictionaries for Year 3

18th November 2025

On Monday afternoon, Year 3 were paid a visit by some members of the Rotary Club of Norwich. The Rotary Club are a group of men and women who seek to ‘make a difference’ in their community and around the world. As part of their work, they donated dictionaries to every child in Year 3.

Back in class, children had an opportunity to explore their new dictionaries, learning how to use them to support them with their learning. The dictionaries have been greatly appreciated and children have been keen to use them throughout the school day. Thank you Rotary Club of Norwich!

Have you seen this penguin?

14th November 2025

On Tuesday, Year 1 had an intruder in their classrooms! We saw clues in the class such as ice, frozen fish and webbed foot prints. After checking the CCTV, it became clear that the culprit was a penguin.

Year 1 tried to find the penguin by making some wanted posters. They wrote some fantastic descriptions of the penguin.

Rose Blanche Descriptive Writing

7th October 20253rd October 2025

Year 6 have worked hard to write descriptively about the final scene of Rose Blanche. Using a range of figurative language features, Year 6 focused on creating a strong picture in the reader’s mind and provoke strong emotions.

The Gingerbread Man

3rd October 2025

This week, children in year 1 had a mystery to solve. After lunch, there was a mess in the classrooms. Children wondered what could have happened and wrote ideas on PostIt notes. At the end of the day, CCTV footage was discovered of the gingerbread man and friends in the classroom!! Children are now busy learning the story of the gingerbread man which they will be performing to their buddies in Year 4.

Imagination Not Included…

26th September 2025

This week, children have been learning the poem ‘Imagination Not Included’ by Mark Bird. They will be performing this to buddies in year 1 next week.

During Busy learning, children have been choosing to make their own version of our story map and they have been writing about their favourite toys.

They have also been using their imagination to transform cardboard boxes into rockets (complete with engine and rocket boosters), cars, desks, beds, costumes. They even made a cardboard box from playdough!

Great imagination Year 1!

Writing Descriptively: Editing

30th September 202523rd September 2025

Year 6 have started their second unit of work, writing descriptively about settings and characters. At the end of their drafting sessions, Year 6 have shown teamwork and collaboration to improve and redraft sections of their work using their green pens. Now, their writing reads better and uses more features of the success criteria. Great skills that are starting to be improved!

Year 5 English

22nd September 2025

Year 5 have enjoyed exploring the text ‘Planet SOS’.
They investigated different monsters and their contribution to climate change.

Children were able to research their focus area, create a poster and present information to the class.
Everyone was proud of their confidence, independence and creativity.

All about me

19th September 2025

Reception have been settling in to starting school and looking at the topic “All about me”. We have been sharing facts about ourselves and drawing self-portraits- noticing lots of our facial features. This week we have been learning about the story “And Tango Makes 3”. In the story, Tango lives in the zoo with two daddies. We have been talking about all of our families and who we live in a house with. We have discussed that every family is special and unique, but the thing that they all have in common is that there is lots of love! Children made marks as to who lives in their house and if they have any pets.

Art Work Based on Skellig

2nd July 2025

Some of these look like a scary dream! Our Year 6’s have used the language choices of David Almond to predict how one of the main characters, Skellig, looked. There was lots of creativity used to create these haunting pieces of artwork!

Gressenhall

21st May 2025

Reception had a wonderful time on our trip to Gressenhall. We met Fairy tale characters, such as Cinderella and Jack. We helped them find their magical objects the Wicked Witch had stolen. We particularly enjoyed the tractor ride on the farm, helping the Ugly-Stepsister with her chores and sliding down the beanstalk slides.