Year 3- English- Children as Editors
Today, the children became editors and authors, proofreading each other's work and making improvements using purple pens. They thoroughly enjoyed this session and found it productive and useful to "magpie" ideas from their peers.
Reception, Year 1 and 2-Story Club
Today, Miss Flynn and the librarians held a story and craft club at lunchtime. The children in Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 listened to the story of ‘The Highway Rat’ and decorated their own mask. Many children took on the role of the highway rat and told us what they would steal. We had ice-cream, cookies, pizza, sweets, cake and chocolate being stolen.
Year 2 - Sentence structure
On Tuesday, we focused on the structure of our sentences and showing that they have a clear start and end. To do this we need to be absolutely secure with capital letters and full stops. The children worked in pairs to write sentences describing their morning routine. It was good to see the children seeing that their writing is made up of individual sentences rather than a large chunk of words. We will have another go at rainbow writing next half-term and see if they children become more fluent with beginning and ending their sentences.
Year 3- English- Using Adverbs to Bring The Iron Man to Life
In English, our young writers have started writing the opening for our class narrative based on The Iron Man! The children have been busy creating their powerful adverbs to bring their writing to life. From silently towering over the cliffs to mysteriously appearing in the darkness, they’ve been working hard to make their openings gripping. We’ve had giant hands cautiously reaching out, and eerie eyes glowingly piercing through the night.
A Special Visit From Local Author, Janek Puzon
This morning, Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 enjoyed a visit from local author, Janek Puzon. Janek engaged the children in a storytelling session by reading them his latest book, Agent Glen. The book was all about Agent Glen who was hired to detect a mysterious burglar who kept stealing riches from an art gallery. However, Agent Glen was a little hard of hearing and he ended up in some rather hilarious situations whilst completing his mission. The children particularly enjoyed the part where his hand got stuck to the toilet. Thank you to Janek Puzon for visiting our school and sharing his wonderful book with our infant children. We can’t wait to add Janek’s books to our school library collection.
Reception, Year 1 and Year 2- Story Club
Today, Miss Flynn and the librarians led a lunchtime story and craft club for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2. They read ‘The Baddies’ by Julia Donaldson and got the children to discuss their favourite part of the story. Percy said that his favourite part was when the ghost didn’t manage to scare the girl, Summer said that she thought it was funny when the witch got tangled up in the ropes and the sweet got stuck to her nose, Hollie said that she liked the spell that the witch chanted, Marnie-May said that she enjoyed the troll falling into the river and Heidi said that she thought that the mouse getting the hanky was a nice ending to the story. We then finished with some colourings of a couple of the main characters (the witch and the troll).
Year 6 English - Writing
In English, the children have moved on to planning their own writing. They have innovated the original text of “Goodnight Mister Tom”, looking at the plot, characters and vocabulary. They have made a plan to support them with their writing.
Working Walls in Year 4
We are really pleased with how well the children are accessing every toolkit in the classroom to support their learning, especially our working walls. Our English unit and class novel is The Firework Makers Daughter and the children have really got to grips with all stages of the unit starting with gathering content, grammar toolkit collection, scaffolded work and now moving onto their independent pieces which will include fronted adverbials, noun phrases and dialogue.
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Year 3 - English- Generating Ideas
Today in English, Year 3 have been busy coming up with creative ways to trap the Iron Man. Instead of simply digging a hole, they have been creative and generated ideas such as using a giant magnet to lift him into the air, luring him onto a platform that drops him into the deep sea, or even trapping him under a heavy metal net. The children have shown great imagination in their ideas.
Year 6 English
In English, year 6 are continuing their unit of work on Goodnight Mister Tom. This week, the children have been looking at comparing characters, focusing on their actions and speech. They have also moved on to describing settings to paint a picture in the mind of the reader. This will all help the children to create some fantastic pieces of independent writing in the coming weeks.
Year 5 English - Persuasive Letters
In English, Year 5 have been busy writing formal, persuasive letters. The children have studied persuasive features and combined this with their work on emotive language from their previous unit on Oliver Twist, to compose a letter to Keir Starmer, proposing that the public should be using more Fairtrade products.
Year 1- World Book Day 2025
Wow! What a fabulous World Book Day we have had in Year 1! To start the day, we listened to two stories which we thought were hilarious (Do Not Open This Book by Andy Lee and The Story of the Little Mole who knew it was none of his business by Werner Holzwarth and Wolf Erlbruch) and we can’t wait for these to now be part of our existing library collection in school. We then took part in a live lesson where we enjoyed listening to ‘The Full Stop That Got Away by Laura Baker’ and became illustrators. We really enjoyed learning how to draw the eyebrows in different ways to change the character’s expression. We also enjoyed other activities such as moving around school to listen to the story that we had voted for, decorating bunting with our favourite books, creating our own bookmarks and taking part in a quiz to guess our teacher’s favourite books. To end a wonderful day, we listened to ‘Nibbles the Book Monster by Emma Yarlett.’