13 Mar

Making biscuits

Children in Year 4 have been learning how to follow a recipe.  They have learnt the skills of measuring, creaming and rubbing in.

9 Mar

EYFS ShREC strategy

In EYFS we use the ShREC strategy to ensure high quality interactions with our younger children. It includes 4 stages to initially Share attention; Respond to the child; Expand into dialogue; working towards Conversation. This targeted approach is helping staff to gain understanding as to how to…

6 Mar

Nursery - World Book Day

In Nursery we love to read!

On World Book Day we shared our bedtime stories, getting cosy in our pyjamas. Year 5 children also came and read our books with us.

We even had a special treat of hot chocolate and marshmallows!

6 Mar

World Book Day

As part of World Book Day, we discussed that reading books can take us to different places!  As a class we used 'You Choose: Your Adventure' to write a collaborative story with our friends.

We had fairy princesses fighting aliens and then having lunch with Grandma; cowboys climbing Mount…

6 Mar

Predictions, Predictions, Predictions

Year 4 have been using key words and sentences from our new Literacy text to predict what the story might be about.  

 

2 Mar

World book day reception and year 6

We loved dressing up as our favourite book characters today for World Book Day.  We especially loved sharing our favourite books with our Year 6 buddies. 

6 Feb

Year 5 Literacy - Arthur and The Golden Rope

This half term, year 5 have been basing their literacy work around the story of 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

A summary of this amazing tale - Arthur decides to make the journey to the great hall and help Thor catch the wicked Fenrir. There, he is set the almost impossible task of sourcing…

2 Feb

Year 5 Storyboarding

In our literacy lessons, Year 5 have been channelling their inner directors and working together to create a storyboard for a scene from 'Arthur and The Golden Rope'.

We had to plan out how the scene would be shot if we were the director, we had to take into consideration how we would capture a…

26 Jan

Planning for Writing

After making predictions and watching a short video clip, the children started mapping out events from a child's perspective.  The children will use these timelines to support diary writing next week. 

25 Jan

The Stone Age

In literacy we have been weighing up the pros and cons of living in The Stone Age.