English

1Oct2020

In English, Year 3 are reading stories based on the traditional tale of ‘Cinderella’. They have previously enjoyed ‘Prince Cinders’ and ‘The Egyptian Cinderella’ and were very excited to listen to the Chinese tale ‘Yeh-Shen’. The boys and girls worked in pairs to sequence images and talk through the

18Sep2020

This week, we launched our English book ‘Beauty and the Beast’. This term, We will be looking at different versions of this traditional tale from around the world. To mark our book launch, we made a beast mask using collage. Activities around this story this week have led up to the children writing

18Sep2020

                         “We’re going on a dinosaur hunt, we’re going to catch a big one.                                            What a beautiful day, we’re not scared.” This week, to introduce Year One’s new English Reader, the children went on a dinosaur hunt

23Mar2020

We’re excited to announce that from Monday 23rd March Read Write Inc. phonics lessons will be available to watch on YouTube. They will be shown live as follows: Set 1 sounds at 9.30am and 12.30pm. Set 2 sounds at 10.00am and 1.00pm. Set 3 sounds at 10.30 am and 1.30pm. Just click the link below w

13Mar2020

Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day! We shared lots of stories including Stickman and Aliens Love Underpants. The children showed off their wonderful costumes and which book they were from. They designed the front cover for the World’s greatest book (including all the things they li

8Mar2020

We had a great time in Year 4 spending the day reading and enjoying the book Can I Build Another Me?  We shared stories, had time to read and enjoyed trying to create another me! The children looked amazing and told us about their favourite authors and books. Article 29 – We have the right to devel

8Mar2020

Launching our book this half term, we enjoyed creating a lot of noise like a big flock of finches! Giving each other messages whilst trying to listen in to others, we had to concentrate on what we were saying and what we could hear!  We also created our own coloured bird template in order to use in

6Mar2020

Year 3 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day! To start, they explored a story called The Lost Happy Endings. The children were inspired by the illustrations and created some wonderful art around the setting of the story. The boys and girls wrote their own endings and sculpted clay models of

5Mar2020

Reception have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. The children loved showing off all their outfits to their classmates. To start the celebrations, we enjoyed the story ‘Here Come The Aliens’ by Colin McNaughton and discussed what it would be like if aliens really did invade our school.