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We are absolutely gripped by our new book – When The Mountains Roared! Here we are recording our VLOGS about how we abandoned home in Australia and fled to India! Article 28 – We all have the right to a good quality education.

The children in year 5 have completed activities to introduce the new English text, ‘The Explorer’ by Katherine Rundell. To begin the unit of work, the children made predictions about the book based on different versions of the front cover. After reading the blurb, they then amended their prediction

The children in Year 2 have enjoyed reading a selection of books by the author Anthony Browne.  Last week they listened to the stories ‘Changes ‘, Willy the Wimp’ and ‘Things I Like’. They discussed each story and recorded their own opinion, giving a reason for their choice.  They will be reading

This half-term, Year 6 will be looking at the book Skellig by David Almond. This week, they have been introduced to the text and have looked at the different front covers and what this reveals about the story. It has left them with lots of questions, which they are looking forward to answering as th

After reading The Stone Age Boy, Year 3 have been putting themselves in the character’s shoes and imagining what it would be like in the stone age camp. Today, the boys and girls used their senses to describe what they could see, hear, feel and smell. They generated their own adventurous vocabulary

This week, Year 3 have been learning how to perform a range of poems to an audience. The boys and girls explored ‘The School Kid Rap’ by John Foster, ‘Louder’ by Roger Stevens and ‘Fruit Picking’ by Jack Ousbey. They have focused on actions, expression, use of voice and following a steady beat to br

In Year One the children have been learning to ask and reply to questions.  They all had a go at hot seating – asking their friends  and teachers questions and they even tried to start their questions in a variety of ways.  Some children made their own question booklet and had to recognise whethe

Year 6 have been learning about different sentence types and how to create complex sentences with a main and subordinate clause. They played a ‘Cluedo’ style game, where they had to understand how to change and alter parts of their sentences. Article 28 – We all have the right to a good quality educ

Delighted to have 3 children awarded their pen licence for the hard work and effort put into their handwriting since the start of term.  Not only are they the first in 4A, but also the first in the whole school for this academic year.  Congratulations!  I am now watching out for the next set! Art

Welcome to our new tribe! As part of the launch for our book this half term, Year 4 became part of the Hairy Hooligan Tribe from How To Train Your Dragon and created our own Viking tribe members.  All we need now is a dragon each! We completed some writing about our characters with lots of imaginat