We started our new writing unit this week learning a short story called ‘The Box’. It centres around a character called Aaliyah who discovers a mysterious, glowing box. As her curiosity takes over, she returns to find the box and take it home with dire consequences…

We explore different writing skills used to create this story and used drama techniques to think about how Aaliyah is feeling and different points in the story. We inferred information from the sentences to help us understand her as a character and predict what she might be thinking.

In our first set lesson we learnt a new technique of blending with pastels to mix different colours gradually. In the coming weeks we will be using this technique to create more complex images and landscapes.