English
Literacy Showcase – World Cup Theme
This week, our pupils embraced the excitement of the 2026 World Cup by taking part in a range of engaging literacy activities across the school. Using football as their inspiration, pupils produced fantastic pieces of...
Chapter Five: The Show Must Go On. The theatre comes to school
For some people the circus comes to town, however the second Arts Week of the year saw the theatre come to Riversides School and with it came smiles, laughter, melodramatics and applause (along with and...
Year 6 Bring the Diary of Anne Frank to Life
Through their interpretation of The Diary of Anne Frank, Year 6 pupils have created thoughtful models and drawings of the annex described within the diary. The project encouraged pupils to use their reading, inference and...
Year 6 independent Write – Diary Entries
Some great emotive language demonstrated in these fantastic diary entries.
Year 3 Bring Joy to Writing with Roger McGough-Inspired Happy Poems
This half term Year 3 pupils have been inspired by the poetry of Roger McGough and others in HAPPY POEMS. They have written their own poem in the style of The Magic Pebble.
Year 6 Poetry
Year 6 have completed a fantastic unit of work on poetry, inspired by the work of Benjamin Zephaniah. They have explored a range of poetic techniques and themes, using these to create their own imaginative...
Year 8 Bring Poetry to Life Through “The Crossover”
Students in year 8 have enjoyed studying ‘The Crossover’ by Kwame Alexander – a story created through poems. Students engaged in rhyming activities, explored metaphors and wrote their own poems and ‘rules for life’. They...
