Blog by Tag: English

The children have been using illustrations with hidden clues from our new Pathways to Write book, 'Where the Forest Meets the Sea', to make predictions about what the key messages and themes may be about.  Great teamwork, everyone!

Year 2 have been writing their own instructions of how to make a peg doll, following their study of Major Glad and Major Dizzy which discusses the theme of old toys.

Knowledge: Develop positive attitudes towards and stamina for writing by: writing for different purposes.

Skills: to be able…

The Nursery children loved this story, and discussed why animals wouldn't be their perfect mummy!

Year 3 have been learning how to write factual texts through researching all about Blue Whales.

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

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…

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!

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…

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

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.