Wow! We had a lovely treat today, not only was it Christmas jumper and Christmas lunch day, Snowdrop Elf had left us a ticket this morning to watch ‘The Gruffalo Live’ performance, we were really excited and discussed our favourite characters from the story, then we listened to some sound Read more…
We have had lots of fun today for Christmas jumper day. We started the day off with a fun P.E lesson and Mr Tomkins played lots of different games with us. We enjoyed listening to instructions and pretended to be little mice in the wood. Our elf Frankie Read more…
We looked at how to effectively create non fiction shapes and map out an information text about the Penguins of Antarctica. We we used images to summarise each paragraph and then used shapes to break each individual paragraph down into smaller chunks. When we we come to write Read more…
Year 1 are learning all about the story ‘Leaf Man’ in English lessons. The children have enjoyed collecting leaves to create their own stick men pictures. We have spent some time describing our leaves using interesting adjectives – what colour they are, what they look like, how big/small they are, Read more…
This half term we have been learning about an author called Julia Donaldson. We have read lots of stories by her and have completed different activities based around the books we read. This week we have read the story ‘The Smeds and The Smoos’ and we have created cards Read more…
This term our topic is Julia Donaldson. Each week we will read a different story written by Julia Donaldson and our first week was Zog! The children learnt what an author was and how we will be looking at the same author each week until Christmas. In the story, Zog Read more…
Wow! What a fantastic first half term we have had; we have made new friends, read new books, created, explored and most of all had lots of fun! Some of our favourite books to start the school year were: Rainbow Fish, Owl Babies, The Tiger who came to tea, Dear Read more…
Hawthorn have written a letter to an author of their choice to persuade them to come to our school to promote the love of reading. They did a splendid job of persuading the authors!
Parents: As part of our WW2 topic, Year 6 wrote a letter, describing what it was like to be evacuated. They had to talk about the journey to, and arriving at, the station, what their host family was like, and how much they were missing you. The children have Read more…
Maple’s new topic this half term is ‘Misty Mountains, Winding Rivers’. We have been imagining what it would be like to stand at the foot of a towering mountain or sit by a fast-flowing river. The children have used their senses to think about what they would see, hear and Read more…
