English
At Shoreditch Park Primary school we teach English writing through ‘The Power of Reading’ which focuses on a range of high-quality texts to allow teachers to plan creative cycles of English with a focus upon a range of outcomes. Through the English curriculum, we help pupils develop the skills and...
Library and Reading for Pleasure
Teaching children to read and write independently, as quickly as possible, is one of the core purposes of a primary school. These key skills not only hold the keys to the rest of the curriculum but also have a huge impact on children’s self-esteem and future life chances. Parental Reading Support...
RE
Curriculum Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary we aim to provide an enquiry based RE curriculum, where pupils can develop an understanding and appreciation for beliefs, cultural practices and values. RE helps pupils to understand the place of religion and belief in the local, national and global...
Read Write Inc
Intent At Shoreditch Park Primary, we know that every child deserves success right from the start. We know that the sooner children learn to read, the greater their life successes. This is why we put reading at the heart of what we do. We teach children to read accurately and fluently with good...
Big Barbican Workshop
On Wednesday 8th February 20 children from across KS2 took part in a Big Barbican Workshop at the Barbican Centre in the City of London. The whole day interdisciplinary workshop was a fantastic opportunity for the pupils to showcase their excellent collaboration skills and inclusiveness. In mixed...
Year 5 - Poetry Artwork
This week in Year 5, we have been looking at poetry in our Power of Reading lesson. This began with us looking at some poems and their features, and has culminated in us creating our own poems, as well as our own expressive artwork based on what we have sounds we could hear. It has been fantastic...
Year 5 - Refugee Week Assembly 2019
Year 5 have been focusing on poetry linked to refugee week. Some children wrote their own poetry and some children performed a poem that a poet had written. Our oracy focus was use of body language and gestures to portray meaning. We really enjoyed the assembly!
Power of Reading - Biscuit Bear
We have been looking at poetry from the Here’s a Little Poem book. One of the poem’s we learnt was a Circle of Sun. We used it as inspiration to write our own poem about the sun
Year 2 - Poems About the Dark
Children in Year 2 have been reading The Dark by Lemony Snickett. To explore this learning further, we read poems about the dark and created a performance poetry piece for our families
Year 4 - National Poetry Week
...us results!......Poetry Day into 'National Poetry Week' in Almond class and had so much fun! On Monday we wat...
Year 5 - Vikings
This week in Year 5, we have been learning all about the vikings, and King Ethelred's ineffective strategies of fighting them off by trying to pay them silver! We have been reciting and performing some viking poetry this week based on the poems. Mr Holland's maths class also started looking...
Year 5 - Design and Technology Week 2020
This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard on our assessments in writing, reading and maths and Dahl class have worked especially hard when creating, rehearsing and performing their class assembly that incorporated our topic work and performance poetry. This week has also been our design...
Year 3 - Performance Poetry
Performance poetry has been one of our highlights this week in Year 3 , with children using actions, tone and intonation successfully. It has been amazing to see all the children applying their learning and understanding of poetic devices when they wrote their own version of Please Mrs Butler
Year 5 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 11th January 2021
This week in Year 5, we have been working really hard to perfect our poetry. We have continued to look at the features of poems we have studied, we have written our own poems and have also had the chance to take part in a class debate and perform our poems in front of the rest of the year group. In...
Year 1 - Home Learning - Week Beginning 18th January 2021
Year 1 have had a very productive week. In POR, we have been focusing on poetry and have taken part in performances of poetry and have learnt to use descriptive language and rhyming words in our writing. In science this week, we have been looking at food chains and polar habitats
Year 5 - Performance Poetry
Year 5 have been focusing on poetry. This lesson we worked in groups to perform a poem. Our checklist for performing included tone, volume, expression, actions and teamwork. Click an image to watch the video
Year 4 - Free Verse Poems
We finished our poetry module in Year 4 this week by creating our very own free verse poems. We spent the week securing our knowledge on poetic devices and reading poems from Michael Rosen, Valerie Bloom, Karl Nova and even our own class teacher, among many others! We then channelled all of this...
Year 5 - Poetry Skills
This week in Year 5, we have been working again to perfect our poetry skills, this week building on the skills we learned last week to write poetry about different aspects of nature. We have written a range of different styles of poems now that incorporate a range of different structures and...
Year 1 - Enquiring Ebony Half Term Project - Poetry
In Year 1 the Enquiring Ebony Half term project was focused on poetry. Children have made their own wonderful and creative poetry collages using a range of resources available at home
National Poetry Day 2022
...was the Bananas poem!...
Year 5 - Poems Through the use of Drama and Performance
Year 5 have spent the last three weeks focusing on poetry. We explored poems through the use of drama and performance. We ensured our poems contained figurative language. After our first draft, we peer assessed each other's poems and then published a final draft in a class book of poetry
Year 4 - Show and Tell
This week Year 4 began their Friday Show and Tell sessions where pupils brought in objects special to them to share with the class. We had live music, books on the human body and poetry! We are all looking forward to seeing what wonderful objects would be brought in next week
Year 4 - Valerie Bloom 'River' Performance
In Year 4 we have just finished our poetry unit, have a look at our Valerie Bloom 'River' performances and have a read of some of our poems!
Year 1 - Writing Poems
Year 1 have been exploring poetry and we wrote our own poems in response to ones we read. Here are some examples from Grey class. Poems about a spider web and the calm or stormy sea
KS1 National Storytelling Week
To launch National Storytelling Week we had a special assembly where we celebrated the joy of stories and reading and children in KS1 shared some of their writing from this half term. Children in Year 1 have been studying poetry and then wrote their own inspired by the ones they had been reading....
National Storytelling Week 2017 - Grey Class
In our workshop with poet Josh Seigal we created our own monsters and used descriptive vocabulary to describe them. Then we made a class poem about all our monsters using smilies to describe. Here is us performing our poem with Josh!
National Storytelling Week 2017 - Josh Seigal
To help celebrate national storytelling week we had Josh Seigal, a poet, visit us. He performed some of his poems in assembly and we were able to join in with the chorus. He was really funny and we giggled a lot. He also worked more closely with Years 1, 3 and 5 and helped spark our poetry...
Year 1 - 'Here's a Little Poem'
Year 1 are currently reading 'Here's a Little Poem'. This week we have been learning to recite and perform poetry using our voices and actions. In this clip Deacon Class are performing 'A Circle of Sun' by Rebecca Kai Dotlich.​
Year 1 - 'Until I Saw the Sea' Performances
This half term we are exploring poetry. Today we looked at a poem called 'Until I saw the sea' which had a lot of figurative language . We explored it together as a class and realised it describes the sea as you would describe humans such as 'breathing in and out'. Have a look at...
Year 1 - Grey Class Poetry Performance
In POR this week Grey class practiced reading poetry for performance. We used actions and changed our voices to make it exciting and engaging. Have a look!
Year 1 - Poetry
Today year 1 have been focusing on figurative language. We read the poem 'Until I saw the Sea' by Lilian Moore and discussed her use of figurative language throughout the poem. We then went off in groups and thought about the best ways to convey this figurative language through movement and...
Year 4 - Spring Poems
As part of our whole school approach to poetry, Year 4 have been writing poems based on Valerie Bloom's poetry. We looked at her poem about Autumn and wrote our own poems about Spring. Have a look at all the figurative language we have used. Can you spot any personification?
Year 1 Power of Reading - The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems
Year 1 have been studying 'The Puffin Book of Fantastic First Poems' in Power of Reading. They have been learning to recite and perform poetry from the book as well as their own poems. In this clip the class are reciting parts of 'Until I saw the sea' by Lilian Moore....
Year 2 - The Rhythm of Life by Michael Rosen
This week Year 2 have started to learn about poetry. We looked at a poem called 'The Rhythm of Life' by Michael Rosen. When we performed this we used instruments and actions to keep in time and explore the words
Year 2 Artists and Poetry
Year 2 have had an exciting week this week! 2 artists, Amanda and Billy, came in to see us. We have been making an aspiration tree with them. To do this we did portraits using pencils and charcoal of our partners, then collaged leaves to make the tree. It will all be up in the KS1 corridor soon,...
Year 2 Learning About Poetry
This week Year 2 started to learn about poetry. We listened to a poem called 'Voice of Water' and felt water to think of adjectives to describe it. We thought of words such as drip drop, whoosh, cold, icy, splash! These are onomatopoeic words and we will use them to write our own water...
Year 3 - Briggs Class Poetry Assembly
In their assembly for spring, Briggs class performed some of their favourite poems from the book 'Please Mrs Butler' by Alan Ahlberg as well as some poems they have written themselves
Year 3 - King Smith Poetry
The children in King Smith class have started their new topic on poetry. We started by looking at a well loved poem by Allan Alhburg called Please Mrs. Butler. The children in King Smith learn about the different features of poetry performance - intonation, tone, action, rhythm, refrain,...
Year 3's Poetry Performances
Year 3 are learning poems from the Allan Ahlberg book 'Please Mrs Butler'. This was our first time performing the poems for an audience. We can't wait to have another go so stay tuned to see how we improve over the next few weeks! Click any of the images to watch the video
Year 4 - Almond Class Poetry Assembly
Well done Almond class for a SUPERB class assembly on poetry!
Choir at Christmas
This week the KS2 choir were very busy! First they sang Christmas carols at Old Street tube station to help raise money for the charity Health Poverty Action . A whopping £616.76 was raised by Shoreditch Park Choir and the other choirs that sang at Old Street tube station. On Tuesday the...
Year 2 - National Poetry Day
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