This week, we have a different way to celebrate advent. We have 24 Christmas books wrapped up under the tree and every day in advent, one child will be able to open one. We will unwrap the book to see which it is and then his book will be shared during Read more
This week we are reading Stickman. To start off our week we spent the afternoon outside looking for sticks that would make perfect stickmen, we found lots of different shapes and sizes! We then used our sticks to make our own stick people on the ground, some were big, Read more
This week in Snowdrops we have been reading ‘The Gruffalo’ and ‘The Gruffalo’s Child’. We have compared the two stories and discussed how they are similar and different. Today we had a special treat and made gruffalo biscuits. We used melted chocolate for his fur, orange smarties for his orange eyes, Read more
We have been reading the story of ‘The Gruffalo’ in Bluebells this week. Miss Longmire gave us some biscuits and we had to create our own Gruffalo. We had orange smarties for the eyes, green jelly beans for the wart at the end of his nose, purple sprinkles for the Read more
Thank you so much to our secret reader this week. Louis was so surprised that it was his dad! Louis Dad read ‘Charlie Cook’s favourite book’ to us this week, we really enjoyed the story and noticed that it was a written by our focus author, Julia Donaldson. At the Read more
Wow, What a lovely week we have had! This week we were reading ‘What the Ladybird Heard’ and did lots of activities surrounding the story. We painted rocks to make them look like ladybirds, made farms and maps and did some Maths sorting activities in the classroom. In the story Read more
We were very excited to have a secret reader in our class today and it was Benjamin’s mummy. We all sat quietly and she read ‘The dinosaur that pooped a planet’. We listened carefully and did lots of laughing. Our favourite part of the story was when the dinosaur pooped. Read more
Thank you so much to everybody who attended our workshop and stay and play session yesterday, we had an amazing turn out! The children were so excited to have someone come into their class and be able to participate in their learning; show you around the classroom and show Read more
This morning, we have been reading our book of the week in Kaden’s Garden. We were very excited to read it outside and we are going to have a think about where else in school we can read. Our book this week is ‘What the Ladybird Heard’. When we finished Read more
Year 5 have enjoyed getting into our new book ‘Cosmic’ by Frank Cottrell Boyce. We have just read up to the part where Liam is on a flight to China with his friend Florida after winning a competition. We have made predictions about what we think will happen next and Read more