--- title: "Blog" url: "https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/index/tag:english/page:2" school: "Brookside Primary School" --- # Blog [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_0566%5B1%5D.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2026-02-02-11-54-year-1-english) 2 Feb #### [Year 1 English](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2026-02-02-11-54-year-1-english) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/c0940ee9-e767-42a7-a55a-83c5366f2a69.jpg)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2026-01-09-12-03-exploring-verb-tenses) 9 Jan #### [Exploring Verb Tenses](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2026-01-09-12-03-exploring-verb-tenses) This week, children have been busy strengthening their understanding of verb tenses. We began by revisiting the **past** and **present tense**,… [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_0357.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-12-15-04-35-y6-chester-zoo-talk-with-mr-white) 15 Dec #### [Y6 Chester Zoo Talk with Mr White!](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-12-15-04-35-y6-chester-zoo-talk-with-mr-white) Wow! What a brilliant talk from Mr White (Max's dad) this week on endangered animals! In literacy, we have been learning about all sorts of different animals which are endangered for a variety of reasons. Mr White prepared a powerpoint presentation, armed himself with lots of animal models and… [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/WhatsApp_Image_2026-01-08_at_19.32.01_(2).jpeg)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-11-09-07-39-outdoor) 9 Nov #### [Outdoor ](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-11-09-07-39-outdoor) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7167.jpeg)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-10-13-16-21-00-year-5-literacy-annie-s-journey) 13 Oct #### [Year 5 Literacy - Annie's Journey!](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-10-13-16-21-00-year-5-literacy-annie-s-journey) Year 5 travelled back in time to follow the incredible journey of Annie Edson Taylor, the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel! ???? As part of our English learning, we created posters to show each stage of Annie’s daring adventure — from nervously preparing her barrel to… [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/WhatsApp_Image_2026-01-08_at_19.32.01_(1).jpeg)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-28-07-37-mark-making) 28 Sep #### [Mark Making ](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-28-07-37-mark-making) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_3594.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-25-07-30-00-team-active-literacy) 25 Sep #### [Team Active Literacy](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-25-07-30-00-team-active-literacy) Year 4 have been working with Mr Phillips (our P.E coach) on a sentence sort activity outdoors in a kinaesthetic, fun way. The aim of the activity was to run around a designated area, collecting different sentence types and then sorting them into categories entitled "statement, exclamation,… [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7700.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-22-15-05-00-nursery-fruit-faces) 22 Sep #### [Nursery fruit faces](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-09-22-15-05-00-nursery-fruit-faces) ### The Nursery class have been doing activities about people, and they made faces in different ways. ### They enjoyed using yogurt and fruit to put features on a face, and then they enjoyed eating them! [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_5846%5B1%5D.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-07-21-15-02-00-farewell-to-year-3) 21 Jul #### [Farewell to Year 3](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-07-21-15-02-00-farewell-to-year-3) Spoilers alert Year 3 wrote a letter to Year 2 today to tell them about the best things that they learned about whilst in Year 3. [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7491(1).JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-07-09-15-58-00-nursery-phonics) 9 Jul #### [Nursery Phonics ](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-07-09-15-58-00-nursery-phonics) ### **The Nursery children have been trying to write CVC words using a variety of equipment - Aquadraw, sand trays, magnetic letters, and on whiteboards.** [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_7336.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-05-12-15-06-00-nursery-growing-things) 12 May #### [Nursery - Growing Things](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-05-12-15-06-00-nursery-growing-things) [![](https://files.schudio.com/brooksideps/imagecache/1440x880c/blog/IMG_5723%5B1%5D.JPG)](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-05-02-12-25-00-literacy-outdoors) 2 May #### [Literacy outdoors](https://brookside.cheshire.sch.uk/blog/2025-05-02-12-25-00-literacy-outdoors) What a wonderful week to take literacy outside. 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