New Bald Worm Movie: The Fab Four Golden Rules for Planning a Short Story

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Goodbye, Year Six! You've been a brilliant group - and what a year we've had! 11+, Romeo and Juliet and the Lake District, too! Thank you for all of your hard word and good humour.

Don't forget that you can pop back in any time - see you sometime next year!

P.S. Why not leave a comment for Year Six. Click on 'comment' and tell Year Five how much you're going to miss them!

P.P.S. Discover who won our pupil and parent Twitter Writing Competition here!

Have a great break!

Falcons Residential Week

What a week! Enjoy some images from the Falcons Girls Residential Week trip to the Lake District!

Year 5 Holiday Homework is Live!

Ah, summer! There may be a few days to go, but our thoughts are rapidly turning towards revising our key skills over the long summer break: full details of the Year Five Summer holiday homework - complete with useful links and Bald Worm video mini-guides -can be found on our pupil wiki!

(Image by ThinhHoang; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Year 5 Fiction: Visual Planning

We don't always need to plan by writing. Visual learners may benefit from planning by drawing a story map or a sketch.


Task: Please complete your Heath Robinson sketch and write a six-eight line description of the machine, using all of Bald Worm's descriptive techniques:


Feeling clever: Use Lemony Snicket's writing style when describing the machine

We'll be using this description in a full Snicket story tomorrow!

(Image by X; used under Creative Commons agreement)

Year 5 & 6 Homework: Twitter Writing Competition

Falcons Girls know that 'every word counts' when writing a story. We're going to test this out with our first annual Bald Worm Twitter Writing Competition - and best of all, your parents can take part, too!

Visit Bald Worm's Twitter page to see where we'll be publishing the winning entries.

Homework: Draft your Bald Worm Twitter Writing Competition entry. You may find it easiest to draft on Word, and keep track of characters at the bottom of the screen. Remember, every word counts.

Due: Friday.

P.S. Year 5 studied the writing of Lemony Snicket over the weekend. Listen to their analysis of Lemony Snicket's prose style on a special eduboo podcast:

Get Ready for Residential Week: Taffy Thomas

We're just days away from Residential Week! During our time away we're going to be visiting Taffy Thomas. We love stories at FSG, so this visit should be a real treat! Visit his website here to learn more about this brilliant storyteller. Check out his amazing 'tale coat' here and learn the story of the tale coat here.

Why not think of some questions we can ask - and we'll try and record some of his answers as an special eduboo and post them up on the blog!