Year Six have been researching the work of L.S. Lowry, to kickstart their latest art unit. The presentation of the work is incredible and children have really worked hard to research his work and style.
Category Archives: English
Stone Age Drama in Year Three
Year Three have loved exploring their new text, ‘The Stone Age Boy’ this week. They have enjoyed participating in some drama activities to help them to understand the events and characters in the story. They worked in groups to freeze frame different events, considering the thoughts of their characters. They also sequenced the events by […]
Phonics Hunt in Nursery
This week the children have been practising their reading and writing skills, they have been segmenting and blending lots of words and even trying to write them. They enjoyed searching for the words with a partner, taking it in turns to sound them out and write them independently. We are so proud of your fantastic […]
Year Three Poetry
This week Year Three have been focusing on poetry. We have been exploring and writing our own Haiku and kennings poems. This morning, we have written kennings poems all about ourselves, including our hobbies, skills and favourite things. We then performed them to the rest of the class and found out lots of new things […]
Non-Fiction Writing in Year Five
This week, Year Five have been writing a non-chronological based on their own dragons inspired by the book ‘How to Train Your Dragon’. Throughout the writing process, they have proved they are experts in the study of dragons. Also, they have been aspirational to include complex SPaG techniques such as parenthesis and relative clauses.
St George’s Day celebrations in Nursery
This week the children have learnt about St George’s Day, the have listened to the story, looked at the flag of England and found out different ways people celebrate this day. The children have re-enacted the story using the castle and figures and created their own St George’s flag using different materials around the classroom […]
We’re off to France in Reception
This week, Reception read a story called ‘A walk in Paris’. There were so many wonderful features that we learned about including the Eiffel Tower. The children found France on our world map, created their own Eiffel Tower masterpieces, painted French flags, sang Frere Jacques and wrote an information leaflet detailing important facts about France. […]
Year One’s Tiger Who Came to Tea!
Year One have started the summer term fantastically! They’ve been introduced to their new text and acting out the story of the Tiger Who Came to Tea 🐅 They retold the story as a class, taking turns to pass it on! Then they worked out the different characters (who appears in the story) and the different […]
Year One’s Teamwork!
Team work makes the dream work! We’ve been working together in phonics and reading, and when working on capacity and volume in maths. We know that in Year One we all have different skills and it was amazing to hear everyone working out alien and real words and working together to predict which jug held […]
Three Little Pigs Artwork in Reception
This week we have been learning about and retelling the story of the Three Little Pigs. For our artwork, we decided to combine a range of media to recreate the three houses. We used different techniques such as drawing, collaging, printing, cutting and gluing to combine the materials. We think they will look amazing on […]