Happy National Poetry Day!

We have had a lovely day today celebrating National Poetry Day! We found quotations from famous poems all around the school- can you remember any? Which was your favourite?

This afternoon, we wrote our own poem! We worked as a class on a poem train- writing one line, then passing it on to a classmate.

Here's the fabulous final poem:

Haunted Forest

The forest was as dark as an ebony dragon,

Splish! Splash! Splosh! The rain poured down,

Bang! Crash! Stones hit the ground and cracked in half,

Suddenly lava started to pour out, it was horrific,

All the dragons started to leave the country,

They were all scared of the Lava,

Bang crash the conkers fell off the trees,

The trees started to fall down,                                           

The wolves were running from the trees scared and shivering as they run,

All of a sudden it went silent,

Then the noise of trees creaking,

Everywhere there was lava- I had to get out of there,

Then suddenly… whoosh! A ghastly ghost emerged from the lava,

How can I escape?

I looked back but an army of ghosts were behind me I searched for a wat to get out,

Scary and goulish the forest was,

The trees fell as I looked back,

A tree which looked like a bear,

Its arms were creaking out towards me,

Lumps and monstrous eyes,

Birds flapping their wings,

The moonlit sky above me, I feel a cool breeze blow past,

Under a green mossy tree, a flock of birds screech by,

I heard a scream and stumbled,

Tree twigs fell to the muddy ground,

I’d never seen anything like it before,

The creatures started to approach,

Something grabbed me as I sank into the ground.

By, St. Clare's Class, 6/10/16

Season-Shifting at St. Anthony's!

On Friday at St. Anthony's, something very peculiar happened! We found a special letter from a Professor S. E. Asons, asking for our help in solving a very strange mystery.

After assembly, our class had received a scroll with a special clue and we all set about trying to solve the mystery...

We followed our instincts and found something very strange in the cupboard in our school hall...

The season had changed! Although it was a sunny July day, deep inside the cupboard it was winter! We saw snow, a frost-covered forest and even a little winter robin!

The Professor was baffled as to how this could have happened, so all of the children in the school wrote to him with their theory of who might have changed the seasons, how and why.

We came up with many interesting theories. Some children thought it was the Snow Queen, or global warming gone wrong, or Gary our chef (who was suspiciously absent that day!). Some children thought it might be Shakespeare, as we knew he had written a play called 'A Winter's Tale'. Others felt it could be penguins, or a yeti, who were looking for a new habitat.

What was your theory?

Here are some wonderful examples of Free Writing, inspired by our discovery, that we will be sending to the Professor as soon as possible:

 By Sophia

 By Jess

 By Maria

An Eggs-tremely Eggs-iting Day!

What a peculiar day! This morning, when we arrived at school, we had received a special URGENT letter from the Government Department for Unusual Creature Knowledge (D.U.C.K.). A Professor F. E. Athery had written to us asking for our help:

These letters appeared, along with some rather unusual feathers, in every classroom and in the office. We also found multi-coloured feathers all around the school, even on the Welcome to St. Anthony's sign!

But, perhaps strangest of all, there were four enormous mysterious eggs in the hall! Two had hatched, but there was no sign of the creatures that had been inside them.

We spent the day investigating and coming up with some fantastic theories about what the creatures might look like, why they had chosen our school to hatch and where they might have gone now!

Everyone in the school, from Nursery to Year 6 (and even some of the adults!) did some writing about the eggs or the mysterious feathered creatures. Some children thought they were dragon eggs, some thought they had arrived from space and some thought they might be reptile-bird crosses! Year 5 suggested that the eggs might have arrived in the hall through the sky light, which was immediately above where they were found. Some children thought they might have come from our Escher Lego picture, or that they had chosen to hatch next to our world map so that they could find their way home.

We will add lots of photos of the eggs-iting day later this week and we will choose some of the best pieces of writing to share on the blog and display on our 'Inspiring Writing' board outside the hall, between the Year 2 classrooms.

Here are a few marvellous pieces to capture your interest...

 By Charley, Year 1

 By Estelle, Reception

By Harry O., Reception

A New Blog!

 http://stanthonyswrites.blogspot.co.uk/

St. Anthony's has a new blog! We will be using this exciting new blog to share the very best writing from children throughout the school. There will be lots of exciting writing, competitions and activities there for you to enjoy! Make sure you take a look and leave a comment. St. Clare's, you are experienced bloggers- now it's your time to support those who are new to it- leave them comments, share your top tips and even submit some of your wonderful writing yourselves.

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Here's a post from the editors of 'St. Anthony's Writes':

Do you like writing? When you sit down to write an essay, letter, diary entry- whatever it may be- what is your first reaction? Do you enjoy yourself, or silently groan? Maybe you think you can't do it, or maybe you just get bored.

Whatever it is, our Digital Writing Team are aiming to change that.

Through fun events and competitions, we will work to change your writing experiences for the better. It could be anything from a story, to a poem, to a comic strip, or even a joke- we want to hear from you! You can submit writing that you have done at school, or at home.

Every week, we will update our blog with our favourite samples of writing from St. Anthony's. With the help of our Talent Finders, we will find the best of your work, giving you the chance to have it displayed on the blog for the world to see!

So get informed, get inspired and get involved- because the reality is, everyone can pick up a pen and write! 

Kings, Knights and the Lady of Shalott!

Last week, we began our new topic- we have started our adventure in Camelot!

We read the first two parts of Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott' and considered what the Lady's life is like. Here is some marvellous writing from St. Clare's last week (remember to click on the pictures to make them larger and easier to read):

 By Francis

 By Harry

 By Amelie F.

 By Amelie M.

By Rory

We even did some drawing, using a mirror to look behind us. We wanted to see how it must feel for the Lady of Shalott...

There are many more adventures to come this week!

More Marvellous Writing!

After our wonderful visit to the Imperial War Museum last week (pictures to follow soon!), St. Clare's Class have produced some more fantastic writing about World War One.

Here are some super examples:

Mina's poem:

Emily's playscript:

Erhun's descriptive writing:

Harry's retelling of a story from the donkey's perspective:

Justin's poem:

WW1 Fantastic Free Writing!

 By Christopher and Cesar

Here are some excellent examples of writing from St. Clare's Class last week. Click on each picture to make it larger and easier to read.

Each of these children has put lots of effort into their writing and has achieved a wonderful outcome. Most of these pieces are from our 'free writing' session, in which the children in St. Clare's could write anything they wished to in response to the chapter of 'The Silver Donkey' called 'The Front'. I am sure you will agree that the work they produced is very impressive! Well done everyone!

 By Darcy

 By Finn

 By Jada

 By Jessica

 By Kenan

 By Justin

 By Jack G.

 By Blessie

By Amelie F.

Here are some excellent pieces of work from the previous week, when we were focusing on Wilfred Owen's famous World War One poem, 'Dulce Et Decorum Est Pro Patria Mori'.

A wonderful analysis of the techniques used by Owen, by Elizabeth:

Comic strips to show the meaning of some of the most powerful lines, by Harry and Daniella: