English

This week in Reception, we have been reading lots of stories about scarecrows.  We read The Scarecrow’s Wedding, The Scarecrow’s Hat, The Scarecrow’s Secret and Tattybogle.  In literacy, we used our phonics to label the parts of a scarecrow.  As our seedlings are now almost ready to plant out, we

In English this week, we have been focusing on the character of Lady Macbeth and how she persuades her husband to commit murder. We practised reading her famous soliloquy after she received the letter from Macbeth – trying to put ourselves in the role of her evil character. We then looked carefully

This week in Reception, we have been learning all about growing beanstalks and how the process of growing a plant works. We talked about the plants life cycle going from planting a seed all the way to a beanstalk with peapods. The children have enjoyed planting their own beans in the outdoor area an

The boys and girls have enjoyed learning about bees this week! We read ‘The Very Greedy Bee’ and talked about the bee in the story and whether he should have been so greedy! The children enjoyed making bee puppets, making delicious honey sandwiches and painting buzzy bees. We have planted flowers in

This week in English, Year 3 have really enjoyed  starting our new book, The Firework-Maker’s Daughter. The children have predicted what they think will happen next and many believe that Lila (the main character) will have to meet the fire-fiend! As part of our work on the story, the children have

The children in Year 2 are currently reading The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson as part of their literacy work. So this week in our Forest School the children were asked to create some nonsense poetry inspired by the book. They would then be asked to present their poems in a variety of ways.

This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create limericks or nonsense poetry about Owls, and then share them in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read the Owl and the Pussycat and some of Edward Lear’s owl based limericks and discussed the humour often found in this type o

This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create some nonsense poetry inspired by wildlife. They would then be asked to present their poems in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read some funny limericks and looked at where the rhyming words often sit in a verse. Using a poe

This week in our Forest School the children were asked to create nonsense poems and then share them in a variety of ways. Before going outside, we read some well known hedgehog poems and discussed the humour often found in this type of verse. We looked at where the rhyming words often sit in a verse

In English, we have been looking at using an apostrophe for possession. The classes have spent time learning how to use an apostrophe to show that something belongs to a singular or plural noun. They have had the opportunity to identify when and why an apostrophe has been used and have written some