We were very lucky today as we had the M6 Theatre Company come to our school and put on a show for us. It was called ‘A Little Gift’. We all really enjoyed watching it and listening to the story. Thank you M6 Theatre Company!
Today saw possibly the most amazing reaction to a book we have ever witnessed in Year 6. For the past week, the children have been studying and inferring ideas and information from our latest book, The Watertower. Each day we revealed part of the story; each day the children complained Read more…
In Year 6,we have had the opportunity to work with author Yvonne Weatherhead on her Starfly book series. Some of the children have spent a number of 3-4 day sessions studying the book, its characters, themes and images. As well as this, the children have been afforded the opportunity Read more…
This term we are learning about animals. During circle times we have been talking about what we already know about animals. We knew the names of lots of different animals, where some of them lived and the noises that some of them made. So we decided to carry out more Read more…
This morning Year 4 and Year 1 Oaks had a shared reading morning. The children shared Christmas stories and reading books. They took turns to read to each other and discussed the story. Year 1 Oaks said that they really enjoyed themselves!
This week we have written our own firework poems. We began the week in the immersive room watching a firework display and gathering vocabulary, we then looked at good examples of firework poetry highlighting the key features. We then wrote a poem in groups focussing on onomatopoeia before writing a Read more…
We completed some fantastic artwork using different materials to create Alice in Wonderland picture.
As part of our English work, we are working on creating a balanced argument. To get different people’s view points, we created an interview to interview a different members of staff. Mrs Shepherd came and gave us an interesting view point.
During our English lessons, we have been writing newspaper reports about air raids in London. We focused our reports on The Blitz bombings on London and spent a morning immersing ourselves in 1940s London. We came up with some thoughtful questions and gained lots of understanding of the events we Read more…
We have had a busy, fun first week back. We have been using adverbs to describe different verbs, improving boring sentences, completing a science experiment and using different equipment to represent a number. The children have all really settled in well to Year 2 and have been working really hard Read more…