Class V English - Journalistic Writing

Within our curriculum we study many genres. At the moment Class V are looking at journalistic writing and we used our lesson to explore newspapers and in particular the structure of articles. The children especially enjoyed pointing out and sharing aspects of good language and structure that were evident in the articles (good mastery skills).

Ms Lowe

Class V Teacher

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Pre-Season Brain Training Day on 31 August 2018.

Please see below a copy of the letter which went out via Evolve this afternoon:

Dear Year 5 Parents

As you will no doubt be aware, the 11+ exam takes place this year on Saturday 8 September, the very first Saturday of the new term. With this in mind, we would like to invite all of this year's Year Five children in for a Pre-Season Brain Training Day on Friday 31 August, 2018.

They will spend the day with their familiar Crescent teachers, including Ms Forth, Ms Lowe and myself, getting them back into gear and ready for their exams.

On the day, there will be taught sessions focusing on the four strands of the 11+; verbal reasoning, non-verbal reasoning, maths and English comprehension. Needless to say, these skills will also be useful for their Princethorpe exams later in the term, as well as any other independent school exams they may be entered for.

Children will be expected to arrive in school in full school uniform at 9.00am with a packed lunch and a mid-morning snack. They will be ready for collection at 2.30pm.

This day's activities will be in addition to the revision packs that we send home at the end of the Summer Term. I am pleased to say that there will be no charge.

Best wishes

Joe Thackway

Headmaster