Take 10 Reading Record 📚

Rowan were excited to take part in Take 10, a special event encouraging children across the world to read for ten minutes in an attempt to set a new world record for the most people reading online at the same time. The children began by listening to the brilliant author Read more

NationalLiteracyTrust- World Record

Today, the whole school took part in an online reading event that attempted to set a new Guinness world record for the most people reading online in 12 hours as part of National Year of Reading. Year 1 joined author Rashmi Sirdeshpande and illustrator Nakul. We listened to Rashmi’s book Read more

Y1 Willows- Shared Learning

Willows thoroughly enjoyed sharing their learning with their families yesterday. We demonstrated our knowledge of nouns, verbs and Kung-fu punctuation, before showing our parents our writing books. We then demonstrated our knowledge of seasons including singing our seasons song, before beginning our task of using different media to create trees Read more

Y1 The Leaf Man

In science this half-term, Y1 have been learning about seasons and weather. In forest school, we continued this learning using the story ‘The Leaf Man’. We read the story ‘The Leaf Man’ before completing various activities such as creating our own leaf men and searching for certain leaves that we Read more

Jack and the Beanstalk

This week in Reception we have been busy exploring the story of Jack and the Beanstalk! The children have really enjoyed listening to the story, acting it out with their friends, and retelling the different parts in their own words.  We have also been very busy with some exciting planting Read more

Runaway Train

This week we have been reading the Runaway Train book. We had lots of fun creating a class train display for our wall and we’ve loved looking at our photos. In the outdoor area, we created trains using the large construction materials. We worked together to move the heavy blocks Read more

The Gingerbread Man

Over the past two weeks in Reception, we’ve been having lots of fun learning all about ‘The Gingerbread Man’! The children really enjoyed listening to the story and joining in with the repeated phrases. We then acted it out together, with everyone taking on different roles and having a go Read more