Thank you so much for today's visit from our Secret Reader! The children loved hearing the chapter from Billionaire Boy and our secret reader also handled a wide range of questions, including about Lithuanian literature and the tales of Hans Christian Anderson! ...
Reading
Secret Reader in 5W
A 'secret reader' surprised our class today- their own child being thrilled to have their mum join us! We were treated to three short stories and loved every second of it. Thankyou so much.
Listening to stories
We have enjoyed using the YOTO to listen to different stories being read. We liked that we can change the story over ourself. Our current favourite is Peter Rabbit. We can’t wait to listen to lots more!
Open Reading in Year 2
Over the last four weeks, the children in Year 2 have thoroughly enjoyed welcoming their grown ups into school each afternoon to read with them. Not only have the children’s fluency and reading skills developed, but the enjoyment of reading has filled our classroom....
Drama Strikes in English…
We are working hard to learn the skills which we will need to write our own news report in the disappearance of Cherry (the main character in our class book). Today we have been role-playing as news reporters during a drama lesson in order to decide which information...
Amazing Alliteration
You can’t catch me, I’m the Gingerbread Man!
In 2S we have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know our new class story - The Gingerbread Man. We used clues left in our classroom to make predictions before we found out what we would be reading over this half term. We have taken part in role play activities and even...
Tasty Toast
During our end of the day story yesterday ‘peanut butter’ was mentioned which then centred a conversation around toast toppings. We made a tally chart to find the most popular out of jam, butter and peanut butter. We recognised peanut butter was the most popular as...
The Giant’s Necklace
Year 5 and 6 have are very excited to start reading their class text: The Giant's Necklace by Michael Morpurgo. On our first day together, we created a giant class necklace out of pasta shells and learned to focus our predictions in regards to what we expected the...











