This week Year 4 have written their own imagery poems based on the poem by Pie Corbett ‘If I had wings’. Children have included a range of ‘Fantastics’ and ‘Boomtastics’ from The Write Stuff which we use in our English. They have included: repetition, similes, metaphors, personification, alliteration and onomatopoeia. Read more…
We had a wonderful day in Year 2 celebrating World Book Day! We designed book covers, wrote character descriptions and made our own bookmarks. Our theme was to dress up as a character from our selection of Bookflix books. Well done for all your super efforts!
Reception enjoyed World Book Day by sharing their favourite stories with each other. They were able to talk about the characters and their favourite parts of each story. Little Red Riding Hood brought us all a basket of cookies and we had a very kind donation from a local author. Read more…
A day to celebrate books and a love of reading. We started the day off by reading our bookflix book with some juice and a biscuit. The children then took part in a range of activities across the morning from author studies to book day maths problems. Well done Year Read more…
Year 1 have had an excellent day celebrating World Book Day! Everyone had made the effort with their outfits! We had lots of fun designing book covers, creating character descriptions, playing guess the story and reading our Year 1 Bookflix selection. In our own words we normally use our Bookflix Read more…
Year 5 have had lots of fun this World Book Day, we have read and listened to books, created new book covers and reviewed a Bookflix book we have read. We also tested our knowledge of books and authors with a World Book Day quiz, take a look at how Read more…
Happy World Book Day! Today we celebrated World Book Day and dressed up as our favourite Bookflix characters. Don’t Year 3 all look amazing! In class we thought about ourselves as a reader. We talked about our favourite books and authors, but also where we like to read and Read more…
In year 4, children celebrated World Book Day by dressing up as their favourite ‘Bookflix’ character. The children looked fantastic and made a great effort! As part of World Book Day, the children red their ‘Bookflix’ books and designed a new cover for their favourite ‘Bookflix’ book. Take at look Read more…
This term, year 5 are exploring and writing balanced arguments. We took part in our own debate about screen use, making points about the positives and negatives of screen use. All of class 5 made some fantastic points and this will support them when it comes to writing their own Read more…
Year 1 have absolutely loved learning all about Traditional Tales in English and we celebrated this by performing our class assembly based on Goldilocks. Everyone learnt their lines, spoke clearly and amazed everyone with the most amazing performance. Year 1 also performed their Fairy Tale dance they had been learning Read more…
Reception have enjoyed a wide range of stories about Superheroes including ‘Supertato’ and ‘Superkid’. They created their own ‘Supertato’ vegetables, counted out how many Evil Peas there were and wrote some wonderful sentences about how the trapped vegetables could be feeling.
In our English lessons we have been learning about non chronological reports and developing our own. The children carried out independent research to gather facts about their chosen subject. The children used their computing skills to copy and paste a photo of their chosen animal which could be included in Read more…
Today, ten children from year 4 worked with Mrs Weatherhead- MBE and author to many children’s books including the Star Fly series. The children focused on Mrs Weatherhead’s new book Lizzie Fly looking at: writing techniques, editing, reading and they took part in lots of fun drama activities. All the Read more…
Yesterday, three children from year 6: Benjamin, Evie and Joshua took part in Mrs Weatherhead’s book launch ‘Lizzie Fly’ at St Andrews Primary School. Schools across the borough came together to listen to Mrs Weatherhead’s top tips on writing and becoming an author. Then they took part in drama activities Read more…
Reception have been using a range of tools and skills to create characters from one of their favourite stories this week. They have experimented to see why Stickman floats in the story and written about the different ways he is used.
Year 1 have settled back in wonderfully after the Christmas break and we are now looking at our new English topic which is fairy tales! Today we thoroughly enjoyed our experience lesson; reading our favourite fairy tales, tasting some of the yummy food that appears in the stories and even Read more…
This week, year 4 children have written their letters to Santa. They have asked for lots of lovely presents because they have been very good helping their mums and dads and working super hard in class. Have a look at their letters below:
In Year 2 we have been getting ready for Christmas, whilst developing our understanding of writing instructions. We have made Christmas decorations to make our classroom tree look beautiful, follow our instructions below if you would also like to make Christmas decorations for your tree.
This morning, Inspector Anwar and PC Lowe visited the school to talk about their favourite children’s books. Inspector Anwar talked passionately about his love of reading and one of his favourite authors, Roald Dahl. He discussed the messages in his favourite book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and read a Read more…
A huge well done to all of our Year 3 and Project X Spelling Bee medal winners. The Year 3 Spelling Bee was extremely close, with three children competing in the finals for the bronze medal. Year 3 Winners Project X Winners
Here are our year 4 Spelling Bee winners: Bronze- Zack Silver- George Gold – Sasha Project X winners Bronze- Lewis Silver- Riley Gold – Kyle Well done to all the children for taking part!
The children have been learning about similes, metaphors and personification in our poetry work this week so we used our skills to write about November 5th and bonfire night. I really enjoyed reading your poems Year 6, some fantastic imagery.
Today we created some Halloween haunted garden poems using personification, metaphors and similes.
In Year 3 this week, we have been learning all about the different features of a newspaper. During our first lesson, we looked the individual different features, using the Write Stuff shapes to support us. Next, we worked in groups to pick out all the features in an examples newspaper Read more…
In our English lessons we have been doing work around the film ‘Song of the Sea’. The children have been working hard to develop alliteration and interesting vocabulary into their sentences. We had a magical chest in our classroom, just like the one in the film. Using our senses we Read more…
In Science, we are exploring our senses. After predicting what we may find, we had lots of fun in the playground identifying what we could smell, see, taste, hear and touch! We also used our knowledge on adjectives and nouns to describe things. The leaves felt smooth yet crunchy. The Read more…
This term, in English, year 5 have been exploring the rainforest. We are currently writing a narrative that takes explorers on an adventure through the rainforest. Yesterday, we used drama to explore the actions, feelings and thoughts of our characters. Take a look at our work.
Following on from ‘The Write Stuff’ in English, year 4 children have written their own narrative linking in closely with the Pixar animation of The Blue Umbrella. Children created their own characters and objects bringing them to life! Take a look at some of our first drafts of our writing Read more…
Reception are learning how to strengthen their arms and wrists ready to write. They enjoy our Write Dance sessions and make marks and patterns in the classroom. This week they have been making number stories and drawing them to share with their peers.
In year 4, children have been following ‘The Write Stuff’ looking at the pixar animation The Blue Umbrella. The animation tells the story of Blue and Red, two umbrellas on a rainy, stormy day in a city. During this rainy day, the two different-coloured umbrellas meet and fall eternally in Read more…