Year 4 Maple have settled in brilliantly! Our class text for our English lessons this half term is The BFG By Roald Dahl so we started the school Year off with some fun BFG activities. We created dream catchers, drew pictures of the BFG and we also looked at some Read more
Well done to Juniper for a fantastic first few days on their year 5 journey! We have been so impressed with their attitude towards their learning. We have shared our love of reading during this week by discussing our favourite authors and books. We’ve written a 24 hour reading journal Read more
A huge welcome back to everybody. We’ve had a busy week getting to know each other and Mrs Graham has been really impressed with how well we have all settled back into school. We have started learning about The Great Fire of London and the children have all showed fantastic Read more
A group of children were very lucky to work with Mrs Weatherhead, who is the author of ‘Lizzifly in a quest for paradise, last week. These session included: dancing to warm up, performing, playing musical instruments, writing their own poems , writing, answering comprehension questions and remembering facts and much Read more
On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised Read more
Year 6 have taken part in 6 workshops across 3 weeks, looking at the role of sports journalists, guided by journalist, Gareth Walker. Taking a different historical sporting moment each session, Gareth has guided the children through the process of how to create a quality piece of journalistic writing. From Read more
To help revisit key grammatical skills, Year 6 looked at playing ‘Zombies v Soldiers’ as part of our Grammar lesson. We had to identify different world classes, conjunctions, tenses and more! The more questions answered correctly, the more the zombies could move forward, with the soldiers trying to fight back! Read more
This afternoon the children have been thinking about the houses in the three little pigs story. We talked about the different materials they were made out of and whether those materials were a good choice to build with. The children then made their own house, choosing materials that they thought Read more
Year 6 have taken part in 6 workshops across 3 weeks, looking at the role of sports journalists, guided by journalist, Gareth Walker. Taking a different historical sporting moment each session, Gareth has guided the children through the process of how to create a quality piece of journalistic writing. From Read more
We have started our topic of Greek Myths by exploring one of the stories Theseus and the Minotaur. We learnt that Theseus had to travel through the labyrinth to the monster. We have been using our problem solving skills to help Theseus find his way through the maze. Here are Read more