Reading

Run, run as fast as you can…

Run, run as fast as you can…

... you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbread Man! We have really enjoyed reading our class text for this half term. We arrived at school to find a trail of crumbs and clues had been left in our classroom. We predicted who it might be before we found out it was the...

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What is a sentence?

What is a sentence?

As part of our SPAG lesson today, we discussed what we thought a sentence was. We decided it was an idea that needed to make sense and needed the correct punctuation. We focussed on statements today and worked hard to ensure we included capital letters, finger spaces...

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Musical role play

Musical role play

We had lots of fun reading our new class text and adding musical instruments to mimic the footsteps of Jim and the giant. We used drums to show the thunder of the giants footsteps and a triangle to show how light footed Jim is.

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A Great Start!

A Great Start!

Year 4 started to think about their new guided reading text today. We were given the book's title 'Stig of the Dump' and some clues in the form of articles and we had to make predictions about what might happen in the story. There were stones, bones, treasure, furs...

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Bringing Books to Life Club

Bringing Books to Life Club

What an afternoon I've had! The children who attend KS2 Bringing Books to Life Club invited me to watch their performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and they were amazing! They had worked with Joanne over this whole term to develop their performance, they...

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Grace Darling

Grace Darling

In English and History, we have been learning about Grace Darling and how she became a heroine. We found out facts about her early life and the night of the rescue.  We enjoyed freeze framing which has helped us to sequence the events, ready to write a biography about...

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Stories and songs

Stories and songs

Year 1 thoroughly enjoyed having a story and songs with our visitor today. We enjoyed singing along to 5 little men and acting it out too.

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Meeting the author

Meeting the author

Year 1 had a brilliant afternoon meeting the author Lauren Hoffmeier who has written Mula and the fly amongst other stories. We enjoyed listening to the story and why and participated in a yoga session about the book.

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Year 1’s mystery reader

Year 1’s mystery reader

We really enjoyed having a parent in to read two stories to us as a mystery reader! We loved getting in loved with the 2 new texts and experiencing new authors.

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