Subject Leader

Mrs A Brasier-Creagh

Writing

Golden Book Writing Examples

Colourful Semantics

Colourful Semantics is a Speech and Language therapy intervention programme developed by a speech and language therapist called Alison Bryan. In the programme, she used colour to highlight the semantic (meaning) within sentences. This intervention uses colour coded cards to help children learn the important elements of a sentence and how to join them together in the correct order.

At Elston Hall we are have recently introduced Colourful Semantics throughout the school in all areas of the curriculum but primarily for teaching writing.

Pupil Voice

Writing

Editing

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"I think I enjoy my writing most when it's narrative where it has a build up and different stages as you get to add the detail. We wrote about The Snowman just before Christmas and I liked all the different stages and working on it over several days. I kept adding the next part and I loved how you could add humour or description. I love it when we get to do stories over several days to build up our writing."

Freddie

"I really like editing my work. It's really good. I find it calming and it's great as you have a chance to improve your work. We use green pens to change the spellings and add more detail and make it better."

Emily

Writing in Nursery and Reception

Fine Motor Control

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Writing in Year 1

Instructions

Year 1 have been using colourful semantics to retell a story and write a recount.

Read our incredible setting descriptions.

So proud of our Year 4 children and their incredible stories! Click on the front covers to have a read.

Year 4 Creative Workshop at the Girls' High School

We analysed an author's language choices in a poem and then used colour synonyms and descriptive language to create our own short poem to fit our artwork. We enjoyed discussing using metaphors to build up negative and positive effects, and how repetition can build an image in the reader's head and the impact of our words.

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Matheson

Listen to our Poems

Isabella

Miyah

Workshop Itinerary

"The children were fantastic, so enthusiastic, hardworking and polite - a real pleasure to work with and an utter credit to your school. We hope you liked the ready-made display that we sent back to school with them! "

Gemma from the Girl's High

We love writing at Elston Hall and this week we had some great news. Year 4 recently entered a Young Writers Wonderverse competition, where they created poems about fantastic beasts.

We are thrilled this week to hear that all 83 children who entered that day have been chosen, to have their work published in an upcoming book. This means we are published authors! We are very proud of them all and can't wait for the copies to arrive in the Summer Term.