This morning we went to Heywood library. All the children are now members of the library and have taken out some books to read for pleasure in their own time. We completed lots of book activities from making bookmarks to completing book scavenger hunts. Excellent behaviour Year 3. Enjoy reading Read more…
A few weeks ago, we celebrated World Book Day. The children visited the school library where they enjoyed reading books with their friends. We played charades in the classroom, where children had to act out and guess from our BOOKFLIX selection.
In English, Year 5 are going to be writing a balanced argument about the effect that screen use has on children and whether or not it makes them lazy. At the beginning of the week, the children looked at an example of a balanced argument and identified the different features. Read more…
Today, we celebrated World Book Day with a range of different activities. To begin with the children had a mystery to solve! Pupils got themselves into pairs and then each pair was given a list of different items that had been left by mysterious book characters. Each pair had to Read more…
Today we celebrated world book day with a range of reading activities. The children really enjoyed our book tasting session along with a visit to the library with some quiet reading time. We enjoyed some hot chocolate and biscuits in the afternoon whilst we listened to a story from Helena’s Read more…
The children have really enjoyed reading club after school. We have explored lots of books in the library, have used laptops to access our EBooks and Enjoyed reading with friends.
In English, Year 5 have been looking at the poem ‘The Magic Box’ by Kit Wright. In the first lesson, the children read through the poem and then identified examples of things that they have experienced or would like to experience linked to the five senses. Next, they developed their Read more…
Over the next few weeks we will be studying the text “How to wash a woolly mammoth” by Michelle Robinson. Before we start the text, we like to offer the children some experience days to put the text into context (after all, how many of us have ever seen a Read more…
Today Year 3 went to Heywood library to take part in a range of activities and join the library. The children enjoyed looking at the wide selection of books on offer to borrow along with sharing stories, making book marks and completing a scavenger hunt. Most importantly though, they all Read more…
We have been working hard to learn our lines and songs for our class assembly, relating to our English unit (Traditional Tales). Today we performed Goldilocks and the Three Bears, the children were all amazing! Thanks to all of the adults that came to watch, the children were very excited Read more…
In Year 5 this week we have been celebrating Reading Week! One activity we did was to create some art based on the picture book Jemmy Button by Alix Barzelay. The book is about the true story of Jemmy Button, who was taken from his home by British explorers in Read more…
This week in Year 5 we’ve been celebrating all things books! We had some parents visit to read their favourite books and poems to the class, which was lovely for us to hear! We also read to our Reading Buddies in Reception. Year 5 love to share picture books with Read more…
Over the last couple of days we have enjoyed a further 3 guest readers coming into our classropom to share their love of reading and stories with us. On Thursday we had a visit from Finley’s mum who shared the story “There is a dragon in your book”. The children Read more…
This week we enjoyed listening to two stories via zoom. First we had Hannah and Joshua’s mum who read a book from the Hairy Mcclarey series of books. The children really enjoyed listening to the funny names and the rhyme patterens. We then had a zoom call from Lacey’s nanna Read more…
This morning our Year 5 buddies came to read with us! Some of us went into the Year 5 classroom to read, and some of Year 5 came into our classroom to read. We chose our favourite Bookflix book and our Year 5 buddies read them to us. Thank you Read more…