English
World Book Day
We had so much fun celebrating World Book Day! We loved reading the books the children brought in and seeing everyone’s wonderful costumes. 📚🎉
English
National Story Telling week Year 6
On Tuesday, we had the amazing opportunity to take part in a virtual workshop called “Soundtrack Your Story” with the inspiring Alim Kamara. During the session, we collaborated with him to create a rap that celebrated all of our unique and positive qualities. After that, we each made our own Positive Alphabet, filling it with words that Read more
English
National story telling week
We took part in National Storytelling week and listened to a story called ‘I am Nefertiti’. We looked at how we could use our bodies to make music to bring the story to life. Afterwards, we completed a poem about ourselves: Additionally, we have been enjoying stories by sharing Read more
Careers Related Learning
National Storytelling Week Year 1
To celebrate National Storytelling Week, Year 1 took part in an online workshop with author. Annemarie taught us how to explore the magic of storytelling through music and rythm. As she read through her book ‘I am Nefertiti’ we explored how we could use our bodies to make music to Read more
English
National Storytelling Week
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
English
Find the shape
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
Design and technology
Little Red Riding Hood baking
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!
Art & Design
Room on the Broom
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.
Careers Related Learning
Step Inside Your Fantasy Adventure – Online Author workshop
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!