--- title: "Year 4 English - Escape From Pompeii" url: "https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-11-06-year-4-english-escape-from-pompeii" school: "St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy" --- We are holding a number of open days for children due to start primary school in September 2027. Please see our admissions page for further details. Everyone welcome! # Year 4 English - Escape From Pompeii ![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/images/news/IMG_8419.jpeg) 6 November 2025 Our new class novel is Escape From Pompeii by Christina Balit. In today’s sessions we have continued to use sentence stacking to develop and construct better sentences. We started by adding a fronted adverbial by watching the main character Tranio and recording how he feels about living in Pompeii at the start of the story. We then moved into a modelled sentence and then an independent one with a different fronted adverbial. In our next sentence, we referred back to our experience day and described the size of Mount Vesuvius using words such as colossal and humongous. Finally we used the same modelling to construct a sentence thinking about how Tranio feels about living in such a beautiful part of the world. The children produced some very effective sentences, using the success criteria to ensure they added all of the key parts. ![](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/images/news/IMG_8419.jpeg) [Year 4](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/tag/year-4) [English](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/tag/english) [History](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/tag/history) [Enrichment](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/tag/enrichment) [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/100x100c/news/IMG_1319.jpeg)](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-11-05-year-6-remembrance-worship) Previous ### [Year 6 - Remembrance Worship](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-11-05-year-6-remembrance-worship) [![](https://files.schudio.com/st-barnabas-primary-school/imagecache/100x100c/news/81E96CA5-81B0-4697-8811-431CD243686A.jpeg)](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-11-07-reception-pe-jumping-stations) Next ### [Reception PE - Jumping Stations](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news/2025-11-07-reception-pe-jumping-stations) ### Personal Development - [News](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/news) - [Events](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/events) - [Photo Gallery](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/photo-gallery-category/our-gallery) - [Calendar](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/calendar) - [School Council](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/school-council) - [Attendance](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/attendance) - [Fundraising](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/fundraising) - [Extra Curricular Clubs](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/clubs) - [Little Leaders](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/academy-life/little-leaders) - [Visits and Visitors](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/visits-and-visitors) - [British Values](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/british-values) - [Protected Characteristics](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/protected-characteristics) ##### Location Knowlesly Road Darwen Lancashire BB3 2JA ##### Contact Us 01254 702996 ##### Stay Connected - [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/stbarnabasce/) - [X](https://twitter.com/stbarnabasce) © Copyright 2021–2026 St Barnabas Primary School, A Church of England Academy School & Trust Websites by [ ![Schudio logo](https://stbarnabasdarwen.co.uk/img/logo/light.png) ](https://www.schudio.com/)