For national storytelling week in Reception, we have been reading and listening to a poem called ‘Earthworms’ by Simon Mole. We have then watched Simon Mole and Gecko perform the poem. After being inspired by Simon Mole’s poem, we have started creating our own poem. We have carefully thought about Read more
In English today, we moved onto our new topic which is surrounding biographies and non-chronological texts. The first text we looked at today was a biography written about Jane Goodall and her journey through her life from getting her first chimpanzee teddy, to working with primates in the jungle. The Read more
This week we are reading ‘Little Red Riding Hood’. Today we became bakers and baked non-dairy cupcakes to put in little red riding hood’s picnic basket. We all helped to weigh out and mix ingredients and then decorate our cakes. We then enjoyed eating them! Yummy!
We have all enjoyed reading ‘Room on the Broom’ this week. Reception have been very busy making potions to help the witch, acting out the story and creating their own characters.
KS2 were able to take part in an online author workshop with the authors of The Dragon Legend series, Katie and Kevin Tsang. We were shown how to plan an adventure story, create maps, mythical creatures, magical characters and much more!
Well done to all children who took part in our virtual Hogwarts Escape Room challenge.
Today keen readers from across school took part in our virtual Harry Potter experience. We had a great time
This week we have been celebrating black history month by reading the book “I love my hair”. We have been discussing different hair types and how they are all unique and beautiful. We discussed what we love about our own hair, what it looks like and how we look after Read more
This week we had a surprise parcel left in Reception. When we opened the parcel we found lots of different foods and leaves. Everyone was guessing what story we could be learning about this week and we found the book for… The Hungry Caterpillar. We even found our own caterpillars Read more
This week Reception have been reading the story ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’. Reception have been retelling the story and acting it out. Everyone has also taste tested different flavours of porridge, thought of their own adjectives and written an adjective for each porridge. They tasted a lemon, grapefruit, chocolate Read more