Reading

Bringing Books to Life

Bringing Books to Life

Some of the children in KS1 and KS2 have been attending an after school, Bringing Books to Life with Joanne Etherington. They've had great fun reading Walking Through The Jungle by Julie Lacome, acting out the story and making masks to re-tell the story. Who knows...

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Freeze framing

Freeze framing

We read the story of the Smartest Giant in Town and thought about how the different animals felt before and after George’s help. We freeze framed how they might feel throughout. We also thought about the kindness George showed the animals and how we could replicate...

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Mystery Reader

Mystery Reader

What a lovely surprise!!  The nursery children loved listening to Winnie the Witch from our mystery reader. Thank you

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Dressing as the giant

Dressing as the giant

We had a delivery of the Giant’s clothes in a suitcase to our classroom so we practised dressing up to see how smart we could look. We compared the items of clothing using ‘bigger than’ and ‘smaller than’.

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Sequencing our story

Sequencing our story

We have enjoyed reading our new story for this half term - The Proudest Blue by Ibtihaj Muhammad. We have contributed to class discussions about what it means to be proud of something or someone. This week we began to sequence our story to prepare us for our big write...

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Book Fair

Book Fair

Don’t forget the book fair is open each day from 8:30am-9:00am and again from 3:15pm-4:00pm. We look forward to seeing you there. .

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Spooky stories

Spooky stories

The children have listened very carefully to our Halloween stories.  First we listened to Pumpkin Soup, the children then explored cut up pumpkins, feeling the different textures and made their own pumpkin soup. Then we listened to one of our favourite stories, Room...

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Mystery Readers… who are you?

Mystery Readers… who are you?

Reception love finding out who our Mystery Reader’s are. After each session we act out elements of the story either through role play, building the scenes in the construction or art activities we love having our home grown ups in school. 

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