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Year 3 Get Inspiration from Canary Wharf

Year 3 Trip to Canary Wharf 

On Friday 15th April, Year 3 took a trip to Canary Wharf to gather ideas and inspiration to write their city descriptions ahead of their literacy lesson the following Monday.

In this particular literacy unit we will write a modern day fable, basing our story upon Aesop’s traditional tale, ‘The Lion and The Mouse’. In our stories, we have replaced the lion character with that of a mean, cold-hearted, money-loving banker; and the role of the mouse with that of the new, junior intern who accidentally crosses his path and gets in his way...

Will the banker learn a life lesson? Will our junior intern, Sophie Liu, be the one to teach him? Watch this space for copies of our stories to follow soon…