Over the past week, pupils at Colebourne have been fortunate enough to have visits from two famous authors; Steve Voake and Steve Smallman. Both authors read some of their stories to the whole school and explained how they wrote their
Author visits
Nonsense Poetry
During literacy today, we started our new topic for the week. This is nonsense poetry. The children wrote down everything they knew about poetry and lots of children thought back to our last poetry topic, where we watched poets performing their
Instruction Writing
In Literacy, Year 5 have been writing instructions. They wrote some fantastic instructions for a new game called ‘Captains Coming’ that Reception could play linked to their theme of Pirates. Both Year 5 and Reception had a brilliant time reading the
Year 2 Performance Poetry
Year 2 have been learning about poetry. This week they have looked at the poem, ‘The Sound Collector’ by Roger McGough. They used his poem as a starting point and then wrote their own poems in the same style. The