South Africa

This week we have been learning about South Africa, our focus has been the story ‘Handa’s Surprise’. In literacy we started by retelling the story using our own character masks. Handa put seven delicious fruit in a basket for her friend , Akeyo. However those cheeky animals took a different Read more…

South Africa

This week we have been learning about South Africa. Our focus book has been Handa’s Surprise. In Literacy, we have worked as a class to act out the story of ‘Handa’s Surprise’. The children used masks to act as the animals, taking the fruits from Handa’s basket in the correct Read more…

Civil Rights Essay

During the Spring term, Year 6 have been studying the history of civil rights and civil rights movements in America, in particular from 1950 onwards.   We looked at famous events, rules, laws, attitudes and people. We learnt that America was very different during the 1950s, and that it took Read more…

World Book Day in Year 1

This week we had a whole week of celebrating World Book Day; we made posters of our favourite books and characters, played games to practise our rhyming, shared our favourite stories, listened to our favourite author (Julia Donaldson) read some of her stories, learnt a poem, wrote a poem together Read more…

World Book Day!

As part of World Book Day we celebrations, Year 2 looked at learning, writing and performing poetry. We also shared a story with ‘Dermot O”Leary’ and designed front covers of our favourite book. We read lots of different stories and talked about why we love reading. All of the children Read more…

World Book Day 2022 in Year 5

This week Year 5 have been celebrating World Book day. We have dressed up as Book characters, took part in a live lesson, wrote book reviews, designed a new book cover for a book we have enjoyed, made book marks, completed mindful colouring of some inspiring quotes from books, and Read more…

World Book Day

Yesterday we celebrated World Book Day. We all dressed up in fantastic costumes to celebrate our favourite characters. We read lots of stories and talked about why we love having stories read to us. A big well done to Bobby who won the prize for best costume in Snowdrops!

France and Pancake Day

Bonjour! This week we have been getting letters from Bertie Bear who has gone on holiday to France. We have looked at different French landmarks and have used lots of different adjectives to describe them. We have also had a go at saying different French words including French foods. On Read more…