Year 2K have been practising their oracy skills this week. We have been reading 'The Day the Crayons quit' by Oliver Jeffers and planning a response letter. #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck.

Y6 are preparing to write an explanation text about the eye this week. 👁️ They gathered names of parts of the eye, then worked in teams to draw and label a diagram of the eye, before presenting their explanation to the class. #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck #ScienceatWelbeck

Year 4/3 explored the thoughts and feelings of different characters from
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Each group was given a scenario from the story that they had to act out. The class then guessed what event was being acted out. Brilliant acting and oracy! #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck

Thank you to Mari at the Children's Cultural Centre for the generous donation of books. The book of Oulu is written by children, for children. #EnrichmentatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

A great day celebrating World Book Day! Year 2/1 created their own books using creative writing. We then read them out loud to our friends. #oracyatWelbeck #WorldBookDay2026 #EnglishatWelbeck

This week, Y6 are writing biographies about Nikolas Tesla in English. We made the most of a sunny morning and took our Key Features Fact Hunt outdoors. #EnglishatWelbeck #OutdoorlearningatWelbeck

Year 6 received some exciting post this week… letters ✉️ from our pen pals in Nafferton, East Yorkshire. It was so lovely to hear from them after their visit to Welbeck last summer. #50ThingsatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 5 enjoyed a special delivery today—letters from our pen pals! We’re looking forward to replying soon. #EnglishatWelbeck #50Thingstodo

Year 4/3 worked in groups to order the main events of Walter Tull’s life chronologically to prepare them for writing a biography about his life. #HistoryatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

After writing police reports about the Great Train Robbery in English, it was exciting to see the actual evidence from the crime scene! 🚂
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Year 4/3 have been working collaboratively to design a persuasive advert in the form of World War One propaganda. They’ve worked hard to include all of the persuasive features. Everyone would want to sign up to the army after reading these! #EnglishatWelbeck #ComputingatWelbeck

6W have been reading Alfred Noyes ‘The Highwayman’. After analysing a range of front covers to make predictions about the story, we read the poem and defined the new vocabulary. We then jumped into the characters’ shoes for some highly impressive hot-seating. #OracyatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

Today, Year 4/3 used their knowledge from their research about trenches to take part in a hotseating activity. They imagined they were a World War One soldier and answered open questions from the rest of the class about the conditions they are living in. #OracyatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 4/3 have been looking at different sources of information to research what the conditions were like in World War 1 trenches. They’ll be using all the information gathered later this week when they write letters home from the viewpoint of a soldier. #EnglishatWelbeck #HistoryatWelbeck

Year 3 kicked off our new unit on emotive letters by putting ourselves in the shoes of WW1 soldiers 🪖. We watched videos, hid in “trenches” listening out for the sounds of the battlefield and used a range of other sources to complete research into daily life on the front line. #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 3 have been showing off their vocal expression and projection by confidently reading powerful WW1 poetry, some written by others and some written by themselves. We challenged ourselves to use our voices, faces and bodies to convey emotion. #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck

Year 6 have been making a great start in their new topic ‘Crime and Punishment’ by researching The Great Train Robbery of 1963. Today we used our retrieval, inference and deduction skills to analyse the key evidence and suspect profiles in the police case file. #HistoryatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 4/3 have been delivering some powerful World War 1 performance poetry to the rest of the class using projection, confidence and actions. #OracyatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

Inspired by their electricity topic, Year 3 orally retold a story called ‘Blackout’. We made sure to project our voices loud, clear and with expression, while adding extra detail using powerful adjectives and adverbs we gathered together as a class.
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Year 4/3 have been retelling a story in pairs today using description to help them with their narrative writing later this week. #EnglishatWelbeck #OracyatWelbeck

In preparation for writing a leaflet about electrical safety, Year 3 have been researching the dangers of electricity using a variety of sources, including books, leaflets, posters, videos, games and websites. ⚡️⚠️
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Year 4/3 then used laptops, library books and posters to research electrical safety. The children will use the information when they design their own leaflets later this week. #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 4/3 started their week by looking at real life leaflets to find their features. The children discovered lots and realised that they contain plenty of facts as well as aiming to persuade the audience to do something! #EnglishatWelbeck

What a powerful Year 6 lesson, hotseating as children in a Victorian workhouse 💭🧒🕰️ Incredible empathy and imagination on show — perfect prep for writing diary entries. Their writing brought to life some fascinating voices from the past! #EnglishatWelbeck

Year 6/5C have been working hard this week writing a narrative about life in a Victorian workhouse. The children then got into character and read their work aloud to the class. 📕
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Year 4/3 have been busy researching information about Nigeria using topic books and sources of information from the internet. They’ll use this research to write an informative non-chronological report later this week. Ask your children what they have discovered about the country! #EnglishatWelbeck

In English, Year 6/5 researched what life was like for the inmates of workhouses across Nottinghamshire ready to write a narrative 🔍
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Year 4/3 have been taking part in some hot seating to prepare them for writing a newspaper report later this week. The open-ended questions, imagination and creativity in the room was very impressive! #OracyatWelbeck #EnglishatWelbeck

KS1 visited Nottingham Library today to meet the children's author and illustrator Rebecca Cobb. She read one of her books to us then illustrated our ideas brilliantly. She has inspired us to write our own stories! #EnglishatWelbeck

The Year 1s in 2/1G worked on their oracy skills today by rehearsing their text map of ‘how to grow a dinosaur’ to each other. We tried to create suspense by adding adventurous adjectives to our story telling! Very impressive! 👏🏼 #oracyatwelbeck #englishatwelbeck