This morning we explored reading in the outdoors by building our own reading dens with the help of Mrs Butcher (our forest school leader). The children worked in teams to find suitable ground and then created their den with the use of string, tarpaulin, ground sheets and tent pegs. They Read more…
This afternoon, Years 3 and 4 joined together at a picnic to talk about thier favourite books. They took turns to read chapters and pages from their books to each other whilst enjoying the sunshine with a biscuit and juice.
This afternoon we had a visit from Curtis’ mum who read Wobble Bear to the children. They loved joining in with the rhyme and asked lots of questions about why she enjoyed reading the book so much.
Today in Year 3 we held a book tasting event. The children worked around a range of tables, each with different genres on and explored the range of books. They really enjoyed looking at and reading the different styles of texts.
This morning, we had a visit from Linda (Milena’s neighbour) who read the story of Hansel and Gretal. We all really enjoyed listening to the story and answering the questions at the end. Thank you to Linda for coming in to our classroom and sharing such a lovely story and Read more…
Today is ‘World Poetry Day’ and the challenge set out in this morning’s assembly will be to find a poem you like and post it in this school blog post. You may even find examples of people reciting your favourite poem on sites like You Tube – if so – Read more…
Today our class elf had tried to leave us a hot chocolate treat but he didn’t know how to make it. We decided to help our elf and write him instructions so that we could have our hot chocolate treat.
We have had a lovely morning in Year 2 writing instructions, making toast and of course eating it! We worked hard to remember all the key aspects that need to be included when writing instructions and learned lots of new spelling rules for certain words. Some of us even included Read more…
Over the last 2 weeks, year 3 have been learning all about instructional writing. We explored the features such as imperative verbs and prepositions and even read and followed some instructions to make our own woolly mammoths. Then we had the job of writing a set of instructions that Read more…
This week in English and History, we have been exploring at Greek myths. To enhance our understanding we turned a Greek myth into a playscript, we worked in small groups to rewrite the myth as a playscript. Once we had created a playscript we then performed our plays to the Read more…
In English, Year 4 have been looking the the poem ‘When I heard the music…’ written by Pie Corbett. First of all they listened to four individual pieces of music and drew images and colours that they imagined whilst listening to the music. In the next lesson, they created extended Read more…
In English this half term, we are exploring the playscript Macbeth by William Shakespeare. As an introduction to his work, we used drama to explore and understand the meaning behind some of the vocabulary used. Take a look at our amazing drama skills, we have definitely developed this over the Read more…
After enjoying our exciting Pirate experience day we were ready to create our non-chronological reports! The children planned their reports after lots of research and fact finding and then produced some wonderful pieces of work. The children loved creating their own treasure maps and Pirate Codes- some of them would Read more…
We have had the BEST time in Year 1 being pirates for the day! We have been finding out all about pirates in preparation for writing our non-chronological report. We started off with some pirate HIIT this morning.. After some maths we used our fact files we have Read more…
In English this week we created instructions for making Easter cakes. Today we followed the instructions and made yummy cakes! We had an afternoon of Easter games including an egg hunt and an egg and spoon race.