Literacy - Character descriptions - 2012

Literacy - Character descriptions - 2012

In literacy we have been thinking carefully about how we can improve our descriptive writing. We took some inspiration from some of the books that we have read. We love Roald Dahl because he is excellent at creating characters using exaggeration. For example the evil characters are not just evil, they are really evil, such as the Bloodbottler in The BFG and the Grand High Witch in the witches. The grumpy characters are really grumpy like Grandma in George's Marvellous Medicine, and disgusting characters don't get much more disgusting than Mr and Mrs Twit! Vile!

We decided to create some character descriptions of our own. Listen carefully and see what you think!

Here are some illustrations of some of our characters too!

Can you guess who they are?

Numeracy - Calculation - 2012

Our task was to furnish a new bedroom. Everyone was given a budget and a list of essentials that they had to purchase. These included a bed with mattress, a wardrobe, a chest of draws, a duvet, a pillow, a duvet cover, a lamp, some curtains and a curtain rail, a rug and a mirror. 


We had to then add up the items and subtract the totals from our budget. We had to be careful not to go over budget or we would be charged by the bank of Mrs Houlston!


We searched online for the best value products and then drew and labelled a plan of our new bedroom. 

The prizes for sourcing the cheapest products went to Jamie, Erin, Sam and Kie. They managed to get all of the essentials and had the greatest budget remaining. Unfortunately, two people went over budget. Alex blew £649 on a 3D TV! Emily got carried away with shopping and had to ask for a £200 overdraft.