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
Juniper have had another visit from Mrs Weatherhead this week. We’ve had a fantastic time exploring different types of poems. We’ve written poems of our own about Heywood and its surrounding areas and produced some fantastic artwork. Eventually, we’ll be publishing a book of these poems – watch this space!
Today, we welcomed our adults into school for our shared learning and lunch. The children were very excited to show our learning and take part in an activity with them. As we have been learning about seasons this half-term, we performed our seasons song and showed them our English books, Read more
Today when we arrived at school something odd had happened! Frogs had fallen from the ceiling! Over the next week we are going investigate what has happened and create newspaper reports based on our findings. Today we walked around as detectives and created questions that we could ask eye witnesses. Read more
Year 6 have been sharing their interests and favourite book recommendations during our social reading time. We use it as a time to read together, talk about the books we like and suggest books for each other to read.
Year 1 have worked really hard and shown great improvement in their writing this half-term. We began by learning all about sentence structure and then read the story ‘A walk in the woods’, which is a picture book about children walking through the woods as it changes through each season. Read more
This week we are reading the story, ‘The Little Red Hen’. Today, a parcel arrived for Bluebells. The red hen sent us a parcel and a letter. Inside the parcel was all of the ingredients we needed to make some bread. The little red hen was very busy and none Read more
This morning we have been experimenting with sentences! We identified the main clause and subordinate clause of a sentence. We then played around with the structure of the sentences by moving the clauses. Have a look at some of our fantastic work.
This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen’. Today we made bread as a class. We spoke about the fact that we were all helping each other like the animals should have been doing in the story. We followed the recipe closely and took turns weighing out and adding Read more
Juniper are about to begin a very special week of English lessons in the near future. We will be working with Mrs Weatherhead to publish a book of poems. There will be a variety of poems written about leaves, fungi, flowers, animals and the local area of Heywood. Today we Read more