Hi everyone!

This week Primary 4/5 have spent lots of their time outside in the sunshine!

We have worked everyday with our partners in Primary 1/2 on our Social Enterprise.

After learning the Little Red Hen off by heart we were set the challenge to create a new story map with our partners only changing the main character, what they find and the 3 friends who would not help.

“Me and my partner Muhammad came up with a story about a lion cub who went to the airport”- Umarah

“Lily and I made a story about a cat called Oreo finding coco beans to make chocolate”- Sorrelle

“Me and my partner Aimee made a story about a little girl who finds a broken paintbrush”- Tahira.

The next day we finished those stories and added actions to help us to remember them when we were telling them to an audience.

“Me and Haadiya would pat our chests for the bit in our story about the hairy gorilla”- Neha

“We would push our hands apart when the story was set in the morning” -Ahsan

We then shared those stories around the fire pit to the rest of the group.

“Having the story map in front of me made it easier to remember all the bits”- Mansoor.

“Me and my partner told a story about a slippery penguin.”-Amaya

“I made up an action for the end of every story. You close your book!”-Rayan.

On the final day with Primary 1/2 we were introduced to a new way of writing stories: a story mountain.

“a story mountain has 6 steps and you write certain words at certain points in the story such as One day…, After that…. and Unfortunately”- Hamza

“The word unfortunately is at the top of the mountain to show that something bad is going to happen”- Laiyba

“It means that everything goes downhill from that point”- Zayd

We used out 1 word each stories to create something new on our story mountain pictures.

We can’t wait to work more with P1/2 and create more amazing stories together!

We have started working with Ben the Storyteller. He came to our school and showed us how stories can come from anywhere and everywhere.

Ben made a fire and told stories around it.

“We sang a song at the start and end of the stories”- Mohammed

“We talked about a magic golden ball”- Ahsan

“Ben’s stories were spectacular”-Muhammad

“They were amazing!”- Kasim

After the story telling session Ben set us homework. He gave each of us a piece of coloured felt and we had to design a shape of what might be inside his magic story bag.

Finally, we went outside to create our own Creakers based on the description of them in our class novel.

We used sticks, rocks, bark, leaves, mud and water bottled found in the Enchanted Forest to create our masterpieces.

Our certificate winner this week was Ahsan for showing integrity. Well done Ahsan!

Please remember that there is no school next Monday and Tuesday and that when we come back on Wednesday we are all going on a school trip to Kelburn Country Park. Please bring a packed lunch and a raincoat in case it rains!

Have a lovely Bank Holiday!

Miss Webster and P4/5 🙂