English
Birch’s visit to the library📚
This morning, year 3 Birch visited Heywood library. We spent time reading books and then each chose a book to bring back to class for our free reading time. We are looking forward to visiting again.
English
Books for our English over this year.
We have had some parents asking for a list of books we are going to be looking at over the year. These books support our English and our topic lessons so please, if you can nip to the library to have a look at them, that would be brilliant! Read more…
British Values
Letters from the Lighthouse
As part of our WW2 topic, we have been studying the book ‘Letters from the Lighthouse’. We looked at writing newspaper reports based on an air raid that the two main characters, Olive and Cliffe, found themselves caught up in whilst visiting the theatre. After reporting on the event, Read more…
English
Our first library visit 📚
On Monday, we went on our first visit to the library. We talked about how we were going to walk up to the library and how to keep safe. It was really important to walk sensibly and listen to our teacher and the other adults who came with us. When Read more…
Reading
Year 5 Library visit
This afternoon, Year 5 walked to Heywood Library and enjoyed exploring the books and finding out more about what the library has to offer. Each child chose a book and were all engrossed in the first few pages before we had to set off back to school. We hope this Read more…
Reading
Watch out for the Demon Dentist
Maple are currently reading ‘The Demon Dentist’ as our daily class read. The children can’t wait to hear, at the end of the day, what is going to happen next. They are particularly interested in finding out more about ‘Miss Root’ who they suspect is trying to rot the school Read more…
English
Meerkat Mail
It was a lovely start to our Monday morning. We read Meerkat Mail in pairs and as a class and looked at the different postcards within this book. Some children found it funny, some children related to the main character, Sunny. Working in pairs was great because it gave us Read more…
English
The structure of a tooth
Year 4 Hawthorn have produced some fantastic diagrams showing the structure of the tooth. They also explained each part of the tooth with some amazing writing. Think we have some future dentists in Year 4!
English
Reading up a storm
Year 3 Cedar has working really hard on improving their reading skills this week. In our guided reading lesson, we are enjoying reading our class novel ‘The Stone Age Boy’ which has helped improve our topic vocabulary and has also inspired our writing in our English lessons and topic lessons. Read more…
English
Bedtime Reading Star
In Willows we have a lovely opportunity for you and your child to sit back, relax and have a lovely hot chocolate each whilst enjoying a book or two at bedtime. Each week we will choose someone that has shown perseverance, hard work and has been an asset to Read more…