We had lots of fun today celebrating World Book Day today in year 3 Birch! We discussed our favourite stories and wrote some book reviews on books we like to read. We also shared stories of people we find to be inspirational. We then participated in a live lesson with Read more
Juniper have enjoyed sharing our stories of people we find to be inspirational. We have used our writing skills to write newspaper reports about an inspirational person – Greta Thunberg. We have also had discussions in small groups about what we like to read for pleasure. We are beginning Read more
Over the half term, Miss Horrocks set us a reading challenge: To build a reading den or nook to read your favourite stories in. Thank you so much to everybody who completed the challenge, you have all done a fantastic job, your dens and nooks look so comfy and we Read more
This week Year 2 revised their knowledge of sentence types and suffixes through outdoor active lessons. We played Formula 1 Suffixes, speeding through an obstacle course to retrieve a route word to take back to our groups, before deciding which suffixes it connect with and working together to spell the Read more
Children loved looking for fiction and non-fiction books again. They remembered some of the features from last week.
Children loved exploring the library today. They learnt about fiction and non-fiction books and went to go and find these types of books. We found lots of information in the non-fiction books. We also looked into the features that make a non-fiction book (contents pages, labels, photographs etc)
This morning has been very exciting for Year 5. Gareth Walker visited our classroom and delivered a fantastic lesson, which the children loved. Gareth is a sports journalist, who has worked for The Daily Mirror for 20 years. He has reported on huge sporting events across the globe. During the Read more
Juniper have had a fantastic morning in English today. A real life national newspaper writer visited our classroom to tell us the story of the Rochdale-Fijian link with Rochdale Rugby Hornets. The children were engaged in their reading and writing by taking themselves inside the exciting world of sports journalism Read more
In English, we have been practising our sentence structures, adding conjunctions to make our sentences more interesting and seeing if we can make sentences from packs of words that we were given. We worked in pairs and helped each other to make our sentences, then read them back to check Read more
