DURING the spring term, children at Egloskerry School have been linking a lot of their literacy and cross curricular work to Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book', alongside the whole school theme of rainforests.

In literacy, children have been using the Talk for Writing technique of learning and acting out the story.

This has led to further work across the whole school with writing explanation and information texts on the jungle, producing persuasive pamphlets and writing various forms of poetry based on the characters in The Jungle Book and other rainforest animals.

Over the last few years children and staff have said they have thoroughly enjoyed this combined drama, role play, numeracy, science, PE, art and design approach to learning.

Past years have brought links to Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Mousehole Cat and, more recently, The Hobbit.

To mark the end of all the hard work, Egloskerry always holds a celebration day at school.

This year's event was a Jungle Book Day, where staff and children transformed the outdoors into a jungle area.

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