Year 7 English students share their stories with Year 1

Year 7 students visited Galmpton and White Rock Primary Schools this week.  They worked closely with year 1 students to help encourage and support their progress in reading. 

Over the last half-term year 7 have been creating their own books in their English lessons.  However these stories had to have a specific audience which was year 1 students.  This has involved detailed language analysis of reading level books; looking at grammar, vocabulary and punctuation.  They also had to explore the structure and content of the stories.  The students were then asked to apply this knowledge and to produce their own reading level books for KS1 students.  The year 7’s were very excited and committed to this project and have produced some amazing books!  At the end of the unit a competition was held to select the best books from each class and a total of 24 students were selected to visit the primary schools.  Ten students visited Galmpton and fourteen visited White Rock along with Mrs Howgate and Ms Boyce.

The whole experience was delightful; the maturity of year 7 as they worked individually with a KS1 student was exceptional and their patience, kindness and teaching skills were impressive.  The KS1 students obviously loved the experience and at Galmpton the students were so inspired with reading these books that they instantly started writing and creating their own books back in lessons!  Definitely an experience to treasure for all involved.

The books created by Year 7 are now on display in the Cube.