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Abbie is a gifted writer and her imagination knows no bounds! As a Year 3 pupil she can look forward to creating lots more stories in the future and placing them, for all time, on Radio Peterbrook. This is a wonderful story - full of ambitious vocabulary and great ideas. So let's get started with 'George and the Enchanted Marble' - ENJOY!!

Duration: 12m 32s.

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Year 6 have been doing creative writing and focusing on music as a stimulus. They have been looking at a particular piece of piano music and creating a piece of writing based around the sense of loss and grieving after loosing a Grandfather figure. The result is a moving piece of writing read with the music playing behind it. The writing fits the mood, tempo and timing of the music.

Duration: 26m 29s.

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Louix is like all Peterbrook children - he loves a good adventure story, especially when he has written it! Louix is in Year 3 and this story of adventures in space, is full of imagination and excitement! Louix is also a great reader of stories, so sit back and get ready for BLAST OFF!!

Duration: 1m 43s.

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The Chinese Zodiac story is wonderful (see main website: Homepage-Breaking News-special Events-Chinese New Year). It explains in an extremely creative way how the 12 year Chinese calendar cycle was created in ancient times. Year 5 children are very creative also and have completely re-thought and re-created the story. Listen to their new versions of a famous Chinese event.

Duration: 17m 28s.

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Once in a while you witness something which makes you say to yourself -'That's what real teaching is all about'. This is such an occasion as we listen to very special pieces of writing. Each piece is synchronised to a piece of piano music - every piece focuses on the character of grandad. Each piece is remarkabke in its own unique way.

Duration: 21m 39s.

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In Year 4, the children were asked, as homework, to complete a story plan. As an extension activity, the children were given the option of writing up their story. Callum chose to take up this option and eventually wrote over 5 pages of quality imaginative writing for his age. So let's journey off to Africa and meet the zebras .....

Duration: 13m 15s.

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Peterbrook caters for the learning needs of all its children. In 2005 we began our Year 1-Year 6 'Brain Academy' learning programme for our highest achievers. These children take on a huge range of Literacy, Numeracy and Science based challenges on a weekly basis. Today is something special as our Year 5 'G&T' Team present for you their first 'wacky' radio broadcast where they have fun writing, rehearsing and presenting crazy radio shows!! ENJOY!!

Duration: 3m 57s.