Class 12 have been celebrating National Poetry Day. They have been reading and discussing the poem ‘At the End of the Day’ by Matt Goodfellow. This poem speaks of finding refuge in writing, a vehicle that can help us to process our feelings. Click the link to enjoy the poem https://clpe.org.uk/videos/video/matt-goodfellow-end-day Read more…
We have been reading the story of Goldilocks and the three bears. We created and acted out a story map together and drew our favourite characters. We made Wanted posters to see if anyone had seen Goldilocks after she ran away from the bear’s cottage! We got a CCTV video Read more…
We enjoyed a wonderful poem called At The End Of The Day by Matt Goodfellow. After enjoying the poem, we studied it to find meaning and purpose. We created pairs and rehearsed reading the poem with varying intonation and fluctuating volume. We stretched words and placed emphasis on specific words Read more…
The theme this year is Refuge. With everything going on in the world, it was good to reflect on how lucky we are to have a school to come to everyday where we feel happy and safe. Something we might take for granted and never imagine it to be gone. Read more…
Today, Class 7 have been working on the poem: ‘Nature Trail’ by Benjamin Zephaniah, which is about different animals that live in a garden. As this year’s theme is all about refuge, we discussed as a class how the animals in the poem all go into the garden for safety, Read more…
In year 6, we looked at blackout poetry for National Poetry Day. We used random texts and chose words that could make relate to the theme of ‘refuge’. We then blocked out unwanted words using pictures or markers to create a blackout poem. Have a look at some of our Read more…
On Fridays aliens eat underpants toast! Yesterday we wrote a shopping list for what we would need and today we made our toast by following instructions. We talked about the steps we made as we were making it, and it tasted delicious!
Reception found some clues; giant googly eyes, claws and white feathers. We discussed who they could belong to and discovered the story ‘Owl babies’. We read and discussed new vocabulary and created a text map to act out the story. We have been busy drawing and creating our own Read more…
We were so pleased that the bog babies came back after their adventures around school! We have made them comfy, pushed them around in the pram, written welcome back cards and been creative making junk and play dough bog babies.
We have written letters to the Bog Babies, asking them to return. We have also been making our own bog babies with paint and Playdough.