Cherry Hinton C of E Primary School

English

At the bottom of the page you will find spelling strategies, Year 3 and 4 word list and the termly spellings.

Summer 2

Two scientists stand talking in a laboratory.

You work in a Cambridge Laboratory and have just made a scientific discovery!

Write a diary entry for the day you make this important discovery. Try to include as many different Alan Peat sentences that we have learned this year.

'...as a/...like a' sentences using similes; doubly ly ending sentences ending with two adverbs; P.C> sentences with pairs of conjunctions

Summer 1

Writing Stimulus

Picture of ancient greek building with columns — The Parthenon, Athens

Standing strong, the columns of the ancient building towered over the people below. The moon lit the streets with a powerful, yet calm glow.

Picture of some sentence examples — Verb, person sentences start with a verb, followed by a comma, then the person

Can you continue the story? Use the verb, person sentence in your writing.

Spring 2

Writing Stimulus

Picture of an island in the ocean — A small tropical island in the middle of the ocean.

The trees, which stretched up far from the sandy shoreline, covered almost all of the small island. We sat there quietly, taking in the natural beauty that surrounded us. Finally, we had made it to paradise, our home for the next two months. At that moment, as a faint rainbow painted the sky with colour, I felt a sense of anticipation about our time on the island. ‘How will you cope without your phone?’, ‘What will you do for food?’, ‘Won’t you be scared?’ my family had asked. I didn’t have answers to their questions but as the sun began to break through the clouds, I knew that the months ahead would be full of challenges and excitement…

Continue the story...

Can you write two Alan Peat sentences within your story?

Picture of example sentences — P.C. sentences use pairs of conjunctions e.g. both/and or neither/nor

Remember the paired conjunction work we did together in school at the start of February.

Spring 1

Writing Stimulus

Photo of lions — Two lions face each other on a rock in the savannah

Write a list of words to describe what you can see in the image. If you were standing there, what would you smell? What would you hear? How would you feel?

Picture of sentence examples — Double ly sentences end with two adverbs after a verb

Now, write three sentences to describe the image, using the Alan Peat double ly ending sentence.

Writing ideas:

A story about the lion cubs and an adventure in the wilderness
You are on a safari tour! Write a diary entry for one day of your trip.
Write a poem using the descriptive language you wrote to describe the image.

Autumn 2

Writing Stimulus

Picture of a door in a hillside — A round doorway and windows in the side of a small hill look like a small home.

They had lived there for as long as he could remember. Generations and generations passed, but very little changed. They kept themselves to themselves, hidden away from the world.

Use this Alan Peat sentence to write three sentences about the image.

Ideas for writing:

Can you continue the story?

Could you write a diary entry from someone that lives inside the house?

Could you write a newspaper article having discovered the house when exploring the country side?

Autumn 1

Writing Stimulus

picture of a tree next to a road — A tree stands in the middle of a path, half of the tree and image are full of life and colour, the other side is grey and barren

It had been a time of great change. The humans were to blame.

Their world was disappearing inch by precious inch: a lush, sun-drenched land full of colour and life becoming a barren, ruinous, grey wasteland.

What would become of them all? Was there even a future?

Use this Alan Peat sentence to write three sentences about the photograph.

Can you continue the story?

Use as many Alan Peat sentences as you can.