Welcome back to sunny school! We hope you had a wonderful Easter break.

We didn't have very many star spellers this week but congratulations to:

Yusuf

Badr

Serine

They all got 10 out of 10.

Well done also to:

Farihah

Kieran

Rina

Sarah

Shouq

Yousef

Nyeema

who each got one wrong.

Please learn your spellings a little bit each day.

This week in Literacy we are looking at language play in poetry. We are using the poem the Magic Box by Kit Wright to help us.

I will put in the box
the swish of a silk sari on a summer night,fire from the nostrils of a Chinese dragon,the tip of a tongue touching a tooth.

I will put in the box
a snowman with a rumbling belly

a sip of the bluest water from Lake Lucerene,

a leaping spark from an electric fish.
I will put into the box
three violet wishes spoken in Gujarati,

the last joke of an ancient uncle,

and the first smile of a baby.

I will put into the box
a fifth season and a black sun,

a cowboy on a broomstick

and a witch on a white horse.

My box is fashioned from ice and gold and steel,

with stars on the lid and secrets in the corners.

Its hinges are the toe joints of dinosaurs.
I shall surf in my box on the great high-rolling breakers of the wild Atlantic,

then wash ashore on a yellow beach the colour of the sun.