The summer holidays were a brilliant opportunity to read some new books and to just be able to sit back and read for pleasure. There have been some brilliant books released recently, from new authors and from some old favourites. The two recommendations this week are from familiar authors – Julia Do
Welcome back to Reading Stars – ready for 2022-2023. The children have been back three weeks now and have all completed initial assessments on Reading Plus and Accelerated Reader. This gives them a starting level to read from. They have then started to access the programmes by reading different shor
Year 6 wasted no time getting back out into the Forest School this week. Miss Rowe asked them to investigate any changes across the site and then they worked together to set up some new areas and make any necessary repairs. During the holidays our tree surgeons removed a large lime tree from the gro
In English, the Year 6 children have started to study ‘Friend or Foe’ by Michael Morpurgo. In the first week, they did lots of reading activities to immerse them in the text and to understand the feelings and actions of the characters. This week, they have written a variety of ‘sentence stackers’ to
It has been a busy week in Year 6 as the children hit the ground running upon their return to school. They have had clues to gradually reveal their English book for the half-term (Friend or Foe); have studied numbers up to 99 million; applied for roles and responsibilities in school during PSHE less
It is with great sadness that I write this message with the sudden passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, yesterday afternoon. As was very clear from the Jubilee celebrations in May, Queen Elizabeth was a person who was loved across all generations like no other. It is impossible to fully
