Blog by Tag: English

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,…

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! 

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.

The Nursery children have been trying to write CVC words using a variety of equipment - Aquadraw, sand trays, magnetic letters, and on whiteboards.

What a wonderful week to take literacy outside. The weather provided a wonderful muse to help us improve our sentences when setting a scene, be it under the beautiful blue sky or in the shade of our wooded copse. 

We have started our topic on superheroes. Today the children thought about what they might look like as a super hero. We thought about our names and any special powers we might have. 

We have been reading the book Big Blue Whale in literacy. The children have been researching facts about whales and creating pamphlets. They look rather splendid!

This afternoon, Year 5 celebrated Book Character Day by dressing up as their favourite book characters. The classroom was filled with creativity, from Ask from Pokemon to Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games.

The highlight was a special guest appearance by Willy Wonka reading the class a…