At Queen’s Hill we want our children to love expressing themselves through writing and feel proud of their writing achievements. Children will be motivated to write through the use of engaging texts, experiences and a range of other exciting stimuli. We strive to equip children to develop a rich vocabulary which can help them bring their writing to life. Our writing is purposeful and covers a variety of genres and key skills, which builds upon prior knowledge. Teachers model the writing process and demonstrate the ambitious high standards expected of all children.
At Queen’s Hill we want our children to be confident readers and have a lifelong passion for reading. Reading is at the heart of everything we do at Queen’s Hill. Children are exposed to high quality texts across the curriculum and reading skills are taught explicitly in all year groups. Reading is a key part of our daily routine and it is celebrated through our ‘Read for a Star’ challenge.
In EYFS and Key Stage One, key reading and phonic skills are taught through Read Write Inc phonics programme. In Key Stage Two, we use ‘Reading Masters’ to support our children with their development of key comprehension skills. Reading for pleasure is a cornerstone of our approach, we are very fortunate to have two school libraries which children can access.
Subject in Action
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
This term, Year 6 are basing their writing and art work on the graphic novel by Shaun Tan. The children showed creativity, curiosity and teamwork as they immersed themselves into the story. This included a scavenger hunt, a suitcase conundrum and exploring illustrations!
Year 2 and 5 Buddy Reading
This afternoon Year 2 and Year 5 met with their buddies to share picture books and celebrate Read Aloud Day. They had a great time listening to each other read!
Year 3 – Book Event with Author
To end Book Week, Year 3 participated in one of Scholastic’s Book Club events with author and illustrator, David O’Connell. Having been introduced to O’Connell’s work earlier in the week, children heard all about how to plan a story, followed along with a draw-along of a treasure map and one of the main characters from … Read more
Year 5 Author Visit
As part of world book week, Year 5 were lucky enough to have a visit from author Vanessa Taylor. They explored her book ‘Baller Boys’ and created a peaceful protest to help save their football grounds. It was also great to have a surprise visit from Marley the mascot!
Year 3 Script Reading
Year 3 have just begun their new writing unit where they are looking at scripts. This week, they have explored what scripts are and how scripts differ from narrative writing. As part of their lessons, they have learned about stage directions and how they are used by actors and actresses to bring scripts to life … Read more
Year 3 Writing
This half term, Year 3 have been learning all about the Ancient Egyptians in their History lessons. As well as a trip to Norwich Castle, they also learned all about what life was like, how important the River Nile was, religious beliefs around gods and the afterlife and about the significance of the pyramids. With … Read more
Year 5 writing
Year 5 have produced some fantastic biographies all about Katherine Johnson. They focused hard on using relative clauses, fronted adverbials and parenthesis. We are proud of their progress and of their grit and determination when using cursive handwriting.
KS2 Reading Event: Pages With Parents
Thank you to the parents who dropped into school on Friday morning to share a reading book with our pupils. We heard some interesting conversations: children speaking about the books they love, retelling stories from picture books and some of our EAL pupils translating stories into their first language. It’s excellent to see Year 6 … Read more
Year 2 Writing
Year 2 had a big shock when they came into school one morning last week and all of their chairs had been taken away! In Writing they have been learning how to be persuasive so they used these skills to create posters and letters for their class teachers convincing them to give back the chairs. … Read more