A GLIMPSE INTO ENGLISH

Nicky’s CM2 Legends

CM1: Emilie’s “S” project on San Fransisco

As part of the CM2 study of myths and legends Nicky’s students wrote sto-ries about an enchanted book. Here are some story excerpts:

Joseph De Sousa

The reason

that Mom and Dad did not

read the book was that

they were too scared. I

reminded myself that they

had told me the book was

cursed. I didn’t believe it.

So, this

night I decided to read

the book for answers.

Suddenly, my

torch turned off. 30 min-

utes had already passed,

and the doors closed

swiftly. I called for Mom

and something replied in

her place. The voice called

my name while it echoed

through my room. I fell to

my knees; spiky vines came

out of my eyes. I was com-

pletely blind.

Eloisa Leboulanger

She was going

to read this book that for

generations and genera-

CM1 with Miss Charisse

During our unit on Ad-venture stories Year 4 have been working on a novel study of C.S Lewis’ classic story of ‘Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe’. They have identified elements and language structures of fantasy narratives and have learnt to enrich their writing by adding description. The chil-dren have also focused their efforts on writing effective chapter summa-ries.

As Lucy walks on, she still

cannot find the back of the

wardrobe. She finds a lamp

post among some trees.

Startled, Lucy meets a faun

named Mr Tumnus. Lucy

follows him home to his

cave. But, does she know his

intentions? Tumnus has tea

with Lucy and tells her sto-

ries of Narnia. He then

tries to lull her to sleep in

order to hand her over to

the White Witch.

By Maxime Arandt

The International French School of Sydney

Inside this issue:

CM2: Myths are brewing

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CM1: Adventures 1

GS: Witches! CM2: Writing Chal-lenge

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CE2: Haikus 2

CE1: Fractured Fairy-tales GS: Who am I?

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CP: Pirate Parrots 3

Drama Toolbox: Brought to you by the Read-a-thon

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CM2: picture books 6

CP: Thar she blows!

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Block 5:

Year 1 HSIE Topic: “Pirates”

Year 2 HSIE Topic: “Fairy Tales”

Year 3 HSIE Topic: “Natural Disasters”

Year 4 HSIE Topic: “Adventure Stories”

Year 5 HSIE Topic: “Myths and Legends”

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tions had killed people.

Mr. Linden knew what

was going to happen. He sat in

his library, his giant library,

and stared at the clock :

6.30pm. He knew that Ally

Jones was eating her dinner.

7pm. She was starting to feel

tired and was grabbing the

book, the book that was going

to put her to sleep.

CM2 Writing Challenge

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Once again the Sydney Youth Writing Competition has come to a close and a few fantastic poems were entered in CM2. The task was to use the words wind, keep or light.

Well done to the entrants, and good luck!

Gum Tree

I glance over the canteen, I

stare over the school and

there I gaze a fabulous

statue with its majestic branches.

I touch the sweet, shiny

bark. I can almost taste the euca-

lyptus. Its leaves rustle with the soft

wind. The pure nature of that fabu-

lous giant.

Ines Lelong

CE2s have been studying natural disasters. They’ve taken their new knowledge and applied it to the beauti-ful and simple style of Japa-nese poetry: the haiku.

Volcano

Lava and black rocks.

Dangerous magma destroys.

A killing machine

By Lucas

Drought

Yellow spikes, bare trees

Blue disappears on the earth

When is it stopping?

Suzanne

Tornado!

Tornadoes are grey

Trembling and blowing

Powerful and strong

Lilian

Floods

Water and landslides.

The rain is coming quickly.

Houses are destroyed.

Ambre

Tornado

Blue flying houses.

Death in tornadoes danger.

Amazing humans.

Tomas

Autumn The wind is blowing in my face, Through the woods and in the city, The colourful trees dance with grace. It’s not summer what a pity, The days are shorter, The waves are rising, I’m not in the water. Now I’m painting, At my own pace, The hills, A red, orange and yellow place. By Zazou Mackenzie

CE2 Haikus The black lake

it’s a lake

hidden in gloom

it shimmers

under the pale moon.

it’s unknown.

it’s peril

to any living creature

who dares to stampede

on it’s territory.

only the bright sunlight

can waken it

from the mysterious curse

that so consumes it,

only the bright sunlight,

that it never gets.

It laps up

on the damp sand

beside it

like dead sea creatures

finally reaching the shore.

The disturbing atmosphere

that hovers over it

is most easily seen

by the bare human eye

Only the most unearthly

creatures

live in it’s murky depths.

the wind creates monsterly ripples

in the mud inundated water.

Imogen cosby

GS Who AmI? Read these poems. Can you figure out who they are? Well done GS!

My hair is long and brown.

My eyes are brown.

My favourite food is apple.

My favourite activity is cooking.

My initials are SA.

My hair is short black.

My eyes are brown.

My favourite food is sausage.

My favourite activity is cooking.

My initials are FK.

CE1 Fractured Fairytales

Witches in GS

CE1s in Prue’s class have been writing their own twists on classic fairytales. Here is one excerpt:

The Three Wombats and the Big, Bad Kangaroo

by Lucille Giraud

One day the three little wom-bats’ mum was eaten by a dingo. The dad didn’t have enough money to look after all of the children so he said, “You must all go and build your own houses, but beware of the big, bad kangaroo.

So they all went off to build their own houses.

The first little wombat, who was called Steven, didn’t dig his hole deep enough so the big kangaroo came along.

“Little wombat, little wombat

let me come in.”

“Not by the fur on my thick, thick skin.”

“Then I’ll stamp and stamp and I’ll jump right in.”

The big, bad kangaroo stamped and stamped and jumped right in. He grabbed the wombat with his big, bad claws to give to his friend, the dingo.

Buttcheek

Once upon a time there was a troll called Buttcheek. He lived in a country called Canada. He was very good. He did karate. One day he did some karate on

people. And then he got a friend. The End.

Remi

The GS students have been learning all about Fantasy creatures this term and have created and described their

own witches!

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CE1 with Miss Charisse

In HSIE and English, Year 2 has been busy learning about different types of pets and animals. They have learnt how to distinguish the difference between wild ani-mals and domestic pets as well as identifying Australian native animals.

Year 2 worked hard on gath-ering facts about Lions and Tigers and discussed the differences and similarities between them.

The children then chose their favourite Australian native animal to research and have written some in-sightful information reports.

As part of our unit study on Pirates, Adriane’s CPs have been learning how to describe objects through their writing. Here are some of the par-rots that you could find on a captain’s shoulder.

Cornchef the Troll

Once upon a time there was a troll named Cornchef. He was an Old Troll, and he was a bad troll. He lived in a village called Troll Chef Village. Today, he is so angry. He in punching trolls and his best friend. So the police trolls came a took him to the troll prison. He stayed there for 10 days and after that he was so nice to the trolls. So he got new friends.

Emmanuel

My witch is kind.

My witch is green and silly.

My witch is happy.

My witch is cranky.

My witch is sneaky and mean.

My witch is beautiful.

My witch is bad.

CP Pirate Parrots

My name is Andrea. I am a parrot. I like adventures. I like flowers. I am a pirate.

My name is Max.

I am a parrot.

I like books.

I like ice cream.

I am a pirate.

My name is Roksy.

I am a parrot.

I like chocolate.

I like coca-cola.

I am a pirate.

the quality of the presenter and of the drama experience.

Here are some photos of the won-derful event.

Hopefully next year we can repeat this unforgettable experience!

At the beginning of the school year, 91 students participated in the first annual Read-a-thon read-ing 165,899 minutes and raising $6,184.00. Half of the proceeds raised went to the Indigenous Lit-eracy Foundation which provides literacy support for Indigenous communities. The other half went to the English department. With this money, we decided to cele-brate the students’ efforts and had a special event. We organized a drama incursions for CP to CM2

with Drama Toolbox. A wonder-ful presenter named Melinda came to the school over a period of three days and held workshops with all the students.

CP experienced the wild world of minibeasts. CE retold the Abo-riginal tale of Tiddalick the Frog, and CM acted out different sustainability di-lemmas that we face today.

The students truly enjoyed themselves and the teach-ers were blown away with

Drama Toolbox brought to you by the Read-a-Thon

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CP Thar She Blows! The CP students in Kerry’s class have been writing small pirate adventures, accompanied by some

very detailed illustrations!

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The Pirate Ship

By Louise Miniconi

One day there was a pirate ship sailing to sea and on the pirate ship they made somebody walk the plank into the water. He fell in the water and they sailed on until it was night.

The Rich Pirates

By Julien Siu

Once upon a time there were two rich pirates and their crew was tired but they were happy. One day they found a treasure map! They sailed and sailed and they got there. They landed on the coast and finally they found X marks the spot. They dug and dug and finally they hit something! Finally, they found the treasure!

CM Picture books

The CM2 in Adriane’s class have taken their creative writing stories to the next level: writing and illus-trating a picture book. After read-ing and discussing popular chil-dren’s picture books the students created their own storylines and set off. The result is truly fantastic and the CPs were entranced as the CMs read to them.

The Farmhouse Dairy by Lexine

The Big Grey Shark by Kyle

Stormy and Bullet by Chloe

Can You Find Me? By Arnaud

We Are Best Friends by Geeta

The Dragon by Saffia

The Pirate Ship

By Margaux Shields

There was a pirate ship. Everyone loved the pirate ship. One pirate didn’t like the pirate ship. He was mean. He wanted to have the pirate ship. But one day the mean pirates were at sea. They were sinking and they

died. And the other ones lived happily ever after

Treasure Island

By Finlay Rebut

Once upon a time there was an island. There was lots of treasure and then there was a pirate ship that was big. The pirate ship was sinking, but the pirates finally found the

treasure.