Last week we celebrated work book day by becoming our favourite characters! It was amazing to see the whole class dressed as their favourite characters. We also had time to share our stories and create reading lists with recommendations from friends. 

In Year 4, we have been reading a book called 'The Mermaid of Zennor' by Charles Causley. The story tells of a legend of a mermaid that began appearing in the sleepy seaside town of Zennor in Cornwall. Eventually, the character disappears and is not seen again until years later.

Year 4 were inspired to use this story as a basis for putting together their own legend stories. We began by designing a lead character that would be the centre point for our stories. After this, we composed an introduction before moving on to the various paragraphs and chapters that would become our finished stories. The children's focus points included the use of adverbials to expand their writing as well as exploring new and exciting vocabulary to add mystery and intrigue to their work.

The finished pieces of work were wonderful to read and the children were very proud, as they should be!

We can’t quite believe we are four weeks in to the year already and how much Year 4 have done in that time. Our English lessons have seen us working on our grammar and punctuation through a collection of fables. The children enjoyed having conv