Our new text in Class 11 is a historical poem called ‘Lady of Shalott’. Before reading the poem we used questioning and observations to start to think and wonder about who the Lady of Shalott could be. It was interesting hearing different perceptions and view points.
Our new topic in Nursery is ‘Once upon a time’. We are learning about traditional tales. We are starting with the story Jack and the beanstalk. We have enjoyed listening to the story. We made leaves for a beanstalk. We built our own beanstalks. Look out for more Jack and Read more…
The children love using the whiteboards to practise their drawing and writing skills. We looked at pictures of baby animals, talked about our favourites and then had a go at drawing them! Look at our amazing pictures!
Class 6 have enjoyed reading the book The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt. Today we investigated different shades of some of our favourite colours. We looked at paint shade cards, used an online thesaurus and a paper thesaurus to find synonyms for the colours and we found images Read more…
Today the children in Class 5 received some letters from some unusual characters. They were from Duncan’s crayons and they were not happy! We had to read the letters carefully to find out what was making them feel this way. It was a fun way to start our new text Read more…
Class 4 came back to school today to find a rucksack had been left in their classroom. They explored the contents and used their inference skills to work out who the bag belonged to. Thanks to some super questioning and some good detective work we discovered that the bag belonged Read more…
In English, we have been focusing on poetry. Our main text has been ‘The Sound Collector’ about a stranger who came along and stole all the sounds we are so used to hearing. Class 7 were tasked with thinking about what would happen if the Sound Collector came to school. Read more…
Children in Class 1 and 2 loved dressing up as their favourite story characters to celebrate World Book Day! Here are just a few of their lovely costumes!
In the Nursery we learn through play! It helps us to understand the world around us and encourages us to develop as individuals in a variety of ways. This includes our confidence, imagination, communication and social skills. Play is important as it supports early brain delevopment and because it’s fun Read more…
Class 12 enjoyed celebrating World Book Day! We had lots of different characters from lots of different books! Throughout the day, Class 12 wrote their own book – THE DAY THE CLASSROOM QUIT! We based it on the ideas from Drew Daywalt’s ‘THE DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT’. We wrote letters Read more…