Word Level

Adjectives created by Steven Moore. Range of styles. Laminated and placed anywhere. Available for free as pdf - see below.

Reading

A3 sheets decorated with favourite characters. Titles and authors of top ten books were written on paper strips and stuck to the 'ladder' in the middle. Whenever they wanted to add a new title, the children just moved others down and attached the 'old favourites' to the bottom of the sheet - a bit like tassels.

Reading Encouragement

Pupils reviews of Roald Dahl books along with examples of reading records to encourage pupils to read.

Elmer Stories.

Taditional Tales

We have been doing lots of work surrounding this topic. Children wrote sentences using adjectives to describe The Big Bad Wolf, these are displayed  in clouds in the sky, other less able children drew picture of characters in some of the stories we had been looking at.

Autmun

The children had produced piece of writing about Autumn and then typed their piece of work up, inserted a clip-art and changed the style and colour of their writing.

The Magic box

The children wrote their own version of the poem.

Sugar Town

The children wrote imaginative stories about a place called Sugar Town, then helped to create the display using various sweets falling from the sky. The buildings represented our area, each section was a different type of weather. A beautiful display, eye catching and drew lots of attention from all the children in the school.

Word Level

Jolly Phonics scheme. The flowers are velcroed on and keep changing so children have to look for any that Mr. Tricky has changed overnight.

Whatever Next

Real box, teddy and colander to give 3D feel to recreated cover from much loved children's book.

The Gruffalo

Made out of brown material staples to the wall surrounded by WOW words which the children decorated in the style of the word, which describes the Gruffalo's character.

Emma Jane

Horrid Henry

Children studied Horrid Henry books and the author, Francesca Simon, then created their own stories and made them into actual books.  Displayed each book so people are free to read them at their leisure.  Made Horrid Henry out of real school uniform stuffed with newspaper then sketched out face and hair onto off cuts of leather to last longer as this is in a corridor.

Emma Jane

Firework Poetry

Cut our silhouettes of people as border then using foil coloured paper for the bonfire.  Children's poetry and wax crayon designs surrounding the work.

Emma Jane

Poems from other cultures.

We used the poem 'Caribbean Counting Rhyme' to learn about rhyme, rhythm and syllables. The children wrote their own counting rhyme poems about the seaside and performed them with instruments to the rest of the class.

Felicity Aston

Phonics/tricky words

Based on Jolly Phonics. A garden scene using the main characters (Inky, Bee and Snake). Each week i change the tricky words and letter sounds depending what we are learning for that week. The kids love seeing if the words have changed or not!

Gillian West

Where The Wild Things Are

Pupils created own versions of the monsters from the favourite children's book.

Natalie Birch

Jack & The Beanstalk

Golden Goose made from pupils' hand cut-outs, tree design made using Batik. Children's related work displayed aournd the edge.

3 Little Pigs

We read 'The True Story of the Little Pigs' and wrote newspaper reports from the point of view of the 'Daily Pig' Newspaper. We displayed the reports like articles on a giant newspaper.

Winter Poems

Winter Display
Winter poems and winter scenes.
We made these from ripped wallpaper in cold colours.

Francesca Simon - Horrid Henry

Pupils written work about Horrid Henry - engaging and enthusing readers.

Dick King Smith

We looked at different books on the author and found out information about him and read 'The Sheep Pig'. As part of group reading the children designed a new front cover with a blurb and spine: Year 3/4.

Rainforests

As part of their study of rainforests, pupils learned about the threat of palm oil production.  They worked in project teams to write persuasive/campaigning letters to manufacturers, MPs and MEPs about the labelling of palm oil in products.  This display shows some of the work they were involved over the course of two terms.

The Ancient Mariner

Poetry

Playscripts

Made to look like a theatre using fabric for curtains - children's own playscripts displayed for general viewing by anyone who visits the class.

Newspaper Reports (CC RE)

Pupils wrote a newspaper report on the recent Diwali Day celebrated in school after studying the Hinduism festival of light.

Poetry

Haikus had been studied and pupils used a variety of photographs as inspiration to create their own.

Laura Cliffe

Persuasive Writing

Pupils wrote a discusive text in the form of a letter to share their views on football and its place on the playground - guest appearances by 4 england legends keeping all pupils happy - and me!

Ted Hughes' Iron Man

Large quarter of Iron Man's head painted silver metallic with pupils' tin foil iron men dotted around. Corner display with thread holding screws, nuts etc.

Poetry

Pupils read poem called Hands and wrote own based on same style. Photographs of pupils in discussion. Rope print of feet and hand prints add effect.

Puppets and artwork - created by Students in South Cobb, Georgia. Full details of the amazing project here.

Newspapers

The newspaper display was part of a week's pre-SATs work that we'd done
based on going to a new holiday camp - this was the newspaper report.

Modern Potions

The literacy modern potions was after our work on Macbeth, they made up
their own potions and modern day chants, they were written on scrolls and cauldrons.