Y6 East of England
There are schools in this group:
- Just Imagine
- Howbridge C of E Junior School
- Woodham Walter Primary School
- Layer de la Haye Primary
- Saint Andrews C of E Halstead
- Brightside Primary School
- Carlton Colville Primary School
- Vange Primary
- Burnham on Crouch Primary School
- Elsenham CEP
- Quilters Junior School
- Dallow Primary School
- Ivy Chimneys Primary School
- Great Easton Primary School













Updates
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Finding themes in Oscar Wilde’s Fairy Stories
The girls chose to compare the stories The Nightingale and the Rose and The Remarkable Rocket with the theme of ‘Love’. The boys chose The Selfish Giant and The evoted Friend with the theme of ‘Selfishness’. The posters show key moments from the stories that reflect their chosen theme.
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Astraeus cards
Jake, Oliver and Fletcher talking through the Astraeus cards and what they might mean.
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Astraeus cards
Phoebe and Evie talking through an Astraeus card and what it might mean.
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14th Jun 2018, 12:44pmThank you for sharing. I’d love to know what you thought about it. -
Phoenix
Discussing Phoenix and using ‘making connections’ for our notes.
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11th Jun 2018, 5:12pmGreat to see you making effective use of the resource materials. Thank you for sharing. -
Mini challenge ideas!
Boys Oliver, Fletcher and Jake discussing the challenge; creating a poster from the stories they have chosen.
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21st Mar 2018, 1:49pmYou look like you are having a wonderful time making your selections. -
Working on the mini challenge
Evie and Phoebe designing their poster for the challenge, discussing what quotes to put on.
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21st Mar 2018, 1:24pmWe can't wait to see your finished poster! -
Old Age – Elsenham try some poetry of their own!
We are really enjoying Carol Ann Duffy’s poems and thought we would create our own. We looked at a picture of an elderly gentleman and thought we would share our poems about him with you.
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22nd Feb 2018, 11:58amGoodness!You have been inspired indeed. I love 'Freddy Grumbly'. It is also good to see a range of poetic styles in your collection. Great work Elsenham Gladiators.25th Feb 2018, 9:47amMoving and inspiring. Thank you for sharing your poems with us.28th Feb 2018, 11:01amThank you. It has been fantastic to read Carol Ann Duffy's poems. They so enjoyed writing their own poems, bringing their characters to life and reading each other's and seeing how one photo can create such differing ideas. We also practised reading them aloud to help with our confidence for we recorded our mini challenge. -
Poems
The group getting ready to read their chosen poem
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19th Feb 2018, 10:28pmI'm looking forward to finding out which poem they have chosen. -
Our questions about Little Bits of Sky
This book certainly got us thinking at Burnham on Crouch Primary. All the gladiators had lots of initial questions and we are looking forward to finding out the answers.
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8th Feb 2018, 7:36pmWhat interesting questions. Would you mind if I shared them with another school?19th Feb 2018, 9:15amNot at all, although I now realise I have added this to the wrong year group! How embarrassing! I wondered where it had gone! -
Line of fire
Our artwork for Line of fire
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5th Feb 2018, 12:43pmSuper art work! I can see you have really considered how to fill each frame. -
Working hard
Designing our diary section for the Line of Fire. The children really loved reading this book and enjoying the pictures. They really felt they understood the impact of the war at the time and what is was like to be there.
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5th Feb 2018, 12:40pmThe pictures really evoke a strong emotional response don't they. -
Working together
Phoebe and Jake writing an additional scene for The thing about jellyfish. They focused on the end of book and what might happen in the future for Suzy
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5th Feb 2018, 12:39pmWorking together is what Reading Gladiators is all about. -
Line of fire
Oliver concentrating on his diary section for Line of fire
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5th Feb 2018, 12:36pmGreat work Oliver! I love your attention to detail. -
Working hard!
Logging on to upload some of our work
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5th Feb 2018, 11:30amGreat to see your gladiators in action and uploading to the website too. We look forward to seeing what you have been up to this month. -
Layer School Display
Our display of books proudly displayed in our classroom
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Layer School Yr6 reading gladiators
Our reading gladiators ready to go!
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5th Feb 2018, 11:44amJake, Phoebe, Evie, Oliver and Fletcher ready for our weekly session for reading gladiators5th Feb 2018, 3:14pmHello Layer Reading Gladiators. Thank you for your super updates. -
Elsenham’s creativity flows
We have found this story very captivating and wanted to share our drawings with you.
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18th Jan 2018, 9:45amI'm really pleased that you shared your art with us. You have obviously connected with the emotional content of this story. Thank you.5th Feb 2018, 11:40amWe really like your creative work for this book, we enjoyed reading A story like the wind too. -
Elsenham illustrates a story like the wind ..
A story like the wind has captured Elsenham Reading Gladiator’s imagination and we have begun our illustrations – Evie has made an outstanding contribution this week.
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14th Jan 2018, 2:55pmAn evocative picture, Evie. The moon and the boat look hopeful set int he expanse of sky and sea. -
We just love reading and PAX!
Howbridge Reading Gladiators really enjoyed semantic mapping in our last session. We love to reason and explain our word choices using evidence from the text!
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1st Dec 2017, 11:51pmHello Howbridge Gladiators! This looks like a thoughtful semantic map. Using Post-its so that you can move the words around is a really good idea.5th Feb 2018, 11:52amThat's a great idea! We think we will use this method for the next book. -
The thing about us is…we love reading!
Unfortunately, we didn’t get our Reading Gladiators group up and running in time to read the first book so we are kicking our year off with ‘The Thing About Jellyfish’. Let’s get reading!
Vange Primary School (Yr5/6)Comments
29th Sep 2017, 12:00amHello Vance Gladiators! Don't Rory about missing the first book. You will be able to catch up at half term. Happy Reading! -
2017 – 2018 Challenges
The 2016 – 17 challenges are now finished and we are enrolling schools for 2017-18. Why not join us?
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