This week, Year 6 have been intrigued by their new English book ‘Varmints.’ Often, people feel that picture books are for younger children, but this is definitely not the case. There is so much inference that can be gained from this book and the children have enjoyed making predictions about the cha
The government has announced that they have teamed up with a number of authors to offer an online library of books. Each week, a new author will be the focus and one of their books will be released online as a free book with several reading and writing activities linked to the book. This week the au
This week, Reception have been busy making a special film of our Nativity play, ‘A Wriggly Nativity’. Despite the short amount of time we have had to put it together, the children have done a marvellous job learning the songs and learning their lines for the production. This year, as we were una
Taking our love of adjectives out into the woodland made for an exciting afternoon. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge match the descriptive words to plants or objects. If they found any additional objects that they could d
Year 5 were given a piece of descriptive writing that was based on an Indian folk tale, however, Miss Rowe converted the story to reflect our North-Eastern weather. The original tale inspired the Chipko Movement, whose members embrace trees to prevent the destruction of forests. The word Chipko mean
Year 2 went exploring for colours and textures in our Forest School. Working in pairs, the children were given a collecting bag, a pencil and a sheet of adjectives. Their challenge was to collect as many examples of objects, that matched the descriptive words, as they could. If they found any additi
The school has been alive with the sound of words today as the children have been enjoying adjective day. It was lovely to see the effort the children (and parents) had made preparing children in costumes to celebrate the power of words. There were lots of lazy, active and cosy children throughout a
The children in Year 6 have had a brilliant day at school – and at home – taking part in Adjective Day. There were some amazing adjectives and some even more amazing costumes! Throughout the day, the children have used their adjectives in a variety of tasks including writing a story, some adjective
The nursery children all arrived on adjective day dressed up and ready to head out into our Forest School. They were split into teams; Sneaky Spiders, Wiggly Worms and Lovely Ladybirds, each team had an adult who had a collecting bag and a list of adjectives. The adults gave the children an adjectiv
Thank you so much to all of the parents who sent in photos of their children reading their favourite bedtime stories. It was lovely to see the range of stories and the look of pleasure on the children’s faces as they were reading! It is so important to try to encourage the children to read as often
