SINCE January, children at Egloskerry Primary School have been linking a lot of their literacy and cross-curricular work to JRR Tolkien's 'The Hobbit'.

In literacy, children have been using the 'talk for writing' technique of learning and acting out a set of instructions for 'how to reclaim the treasure from the sly, evil, robbing dragon Smaug'.

This has led to further work across the whole school with 'myths and legends' writing, explanation writing, information writing and links to riddles in poetry.

This isn't the first time an approach such as this has been used at Egloskerry. Over the last few years, children and staff have relished this combined drama, role play, numeracy, science, PE, art and design approach to learning; effective cross-curricular learning — for a purpose. Past years have brought links to 'Alice in Wonderland', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' and 'The Mousehole Cat'.

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