Year 1 are starting a new writing unit based on the story ‘The 3 Little Pigs’. Today we explored the story by reading it, talking about the vocabulary (including nouns, verbs and adjectives) and discussed ideas of how we could improve the story using our fantastic adjective ideas. We then Read more…
We have been reading a story called the King who banned the dark this week. We then completed lots of activities about this story. We had to think about: The next day we used shadow puppets to retell the story. We then planned and made letters to the Read more…
Year 6 had the opportunity to take part in a workshop and monologue performance of Crossing the Line. It addresses the issues surrounding child criminal exploitation and gives the children the tools and understanding needed to identify and deal with these issues. We first watched the video, which explains the Read more…
This week, Year 2 are starting to write a new story called ‘A Christmas Star’. The writing will be based on a BBC Christmas advert. Today, we had an experience lesson, in which we watched the advert and discussed the events of the story ( our plot points) and the Read more…
Today year 3 had a fantastic treat. We were able to watch a production all about climate change. here are some pictures of the performance
For our English lesson today, we had an experience day where we went for a walk in the deep, dark wood. We used the FANTASTICS to collect vocabulary to use in our writing. We discussed what Little Red Riding Hood might see, hear hear and feel and how she might Read more…
On Thursday Maple visited the M6 Theatre Company as part of our Linking Schools network. The children met and worked with a Year 4 class from Ashfield Valley Primary. As well as watching a theatre production, the children produced some drama work about looking after our world. Throughout the year Read more…
Since returning to school, Year 5 have been producing some fantastic writing based on an animated clip named ‘The present’. So far in our writing, a computer game obsessed Ben, has just received a special gift from his mum. When Ben opens the gift he is surprised to find a Read more…
This week we have looked further at the story of Jack and the beanstalk; we have retold the story using masks and the giant beanstalk that Miss Horrocks made, made our own with bricks, made houses and villages to protect the people from the giant, ordered numbers and then told Read more…
