Welcome Emas!

Today we had a local Islington author come to visit, his name was Andy Naylor! He came to read his new narrative poem with KS1 and 2 and everybody loved it! Some children even went back to their classrooms so inspired that they chose to recreate the main character!

His poem begins...

Hello Earth people!
Emas is my name.
Back on my planet,
We all look the same.

We all have six fingers
And we all have four toes.
We all have one eye,
But no one has a nose.

I come from a planet
That’s close to the moon.
It’s small and it’s green
And it’s called Ziggleboom.

The original drawing of Emas from the book on his way to Earth from Ziggleboom!

Can you write a poem in response to the one you heard? What did Emas say to his parents when he returned home?

Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre

Today, we visited Great Missenden to go to the Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre.

Here is the original house which Sophie's orphanage from the BFG was based on.

Click on this link to watch the BFG.

Can you find the part of the movie where you see Sophie's orphanage? What do you notice which is similar or different?

Pollution experts!

Recently we have been taking part in a project all about pollution and its effects on the local environment. Today we went out into the local park to look for different kinds of Lichen. We needed to use our magnifying glasses to carefully look on all of the trees and plants and identify which kind of Lichen it might have been!

If there is a high amount of Lichen on the trees and plants, what does this tell us about pollution in the area? Why does Lichen like living in these areas?

We are reporters!

The past few weeks we have been working up to writing a newspaper report all about the incident where George fed Grandma the Marvellous Medicine!

This was George's parents reaction when they came back from their errands...

We began by roleplaying as the reporter in order to find out what George's parents really thought...

What do you think the reporter may have asked George's dad?
How did he respond?
Did mum have anything to comment?

Grandma goes bananas!

George was extremely naughty and decided to feed Grandma the medicine despite our wise words of advice!

This is what happened next...

How was Grandma feeling at this point in the story?