Fun Stuff - Lego Pupil!

Good luck tomorrow, girls, in the Consortium examination! You're nearly there!

P.S. Listen to the Grumpy Interviewer being impressed:

Learn the Basic Kung-fu Punctuation Moves

Year Six love learning through movement and actions. Watch this video to learn the basic Kung-fu punctuation moves.

Year Six Optional Homework: The First 15 lines

Enjoy Year Six performing the semi-colon song! This is an example of using Web 2.0 - an iphone and our school YouTube channel - to capture musical learning.

Homework Task: Good luck for those sitting an examination tomorrow.
Your homework task is to complete the 'Self-assessment Elegant Prose Task'.

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Due: Wednesday or Thursday

Year 6 Prose: Elegant Prose

Do you want to be elegant?

One of the clever tricks you can use in an 11+ exam is to make sure that you use an 'elegant' prose style in the first six-seven lines; the first paragraph or two is your opportunity to show the Grumpy Examiner that you can use a variety of different sentence types and forms of punctuation.

Optional Homework Task: Please complete the 'Elegant Prose' homework task. Download a copy from my box at box.net.

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Fun Stuff!

It was so fun because our friend threw a snowball at Mr Hitchen's eye and he grumbled that it was unfair and that he would get us back. Mr Hitchen tried very hard, but was no match for the five Falcon girls.

Optional Year Six Homework: Planning to Combine Genres

We're back! And the snow isn't going to stop us!

Good luck to those girls sitting St. James's Reasoning and Consortium exams on Thursday and Friday. I'm sure you'll impress The Grumpy Examiner!

Optional task:
Try the Combining Genres task...and get a good eight hours sleep before Thursday! Not got a copy? Download from my box at box.net.

Good luck!

Good luck to all those Falcons girls and our other readers who are sitting the 11+ exams this week! The Grumpy Examiner says, "Break a leg!"

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