This week we are reading ‘The Little Red Hen’. Today we made bread as a class. We spoke about the fact that we were all helping each other like the animals should have been doing in the story. We followed the recipe closely and took turns weighing out and adding Read more
This week we have been reading the story ‘The tiger who came to tea’. We have also been investigating and making our own tigers. We have all worked very hard!
This afternoon, the year 1 children spent some time completing social reading. The children chose a partner and a book of their choice, to sit and read together. The children were very grown up. They sat beautifully taking turns to read and discuss the books. I
Well done to Juniper for a fantastic first few days on their year 5 journey! We have been so impressed with their attitude towards their learning. We have shared our love of reading during this week by discussing our favourite authors and books. We’ve written a 24 hour reading journal Read more
On Thursday afternoons this half-term, Year 2 are completing a carousel of activities to improve various skills. They are improving their letter formation using ‘bubble writing’, working on their comprehension skills using information based on our current topics, practising their spellings through a variety of activities and, this week, practised Read more
This afternoon the children have been thinking about the houses in the three little pigs story. We talked about the different materials they were made out of and whether those materials were a good choice to build with. The children then made their own house, choosing materials that they thought Read more
This week in Guided Reading, we began our new book ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’. The children were really excited to begin this story. They have been fantastic at answering prediction, retrieval, inference and grammar questions about the pages they have read so far. Some children have also been adding Read more
This week we have been learning about The Gingerbread Man story. We have been designing our own gingerbread, making one in the play dough area and acting out the story. Everyone really enjoyed acting out the story and being different characters! This afternoon, we have been very busy designing our Read more
We had lots of fun dressing up for World book day and the children all looked fantastic. In English we have been writing a recipe to become an inspirational person like: Mother Teresa, Ru Paul, Malala Yousafzai, Harriet Tubman and Rosa Parks. We had some excellent ideas for our writing. Read more
We had a fantastic day for world book day. All our costumes looked amazing! We took part in a Teach active lesson where we looked at persuasive letter features. We then wrote a letter in role of Sir David Attenborough, a courageous advocate, trying to persuade St Luke’s School to Read more