Read all about it!

Over the next couple of weeks, we will be exploring many different newspaper articles and their features. We have compiled a report check list, and practised identifying who, what, where, when and why? Together we wrote an interesting 'Baby Steals Chocolate!' report today, and focused on using different sentence starters.

If you get the chance, it would be useful to let your child explore some newspapers...and maybe discuss some articles together...This is where 'First News' is particularly handy!

Useful websites:
http://www.firstnews.co.uk/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/news

The Election!

Today our news discussion turned towards the general election! It was clear some of the children already knew a bit about it, if not the names 'David' and 'Ed'! It is tricky to find age appropriate resources, but I used parts of this KS2 clip
http://www.parliament.uk/education/teaching-resources-lesson-plans/introduction-to-parliament-ks2-video/
which you may want to use to discuss further at home. There are a few other videos on the website.

There are also some 60 sec video clips about each party:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/32253101