Reception have had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. The children loved showing off all their outfits to their classmates. To start the celebrations, we enjoyed the story ‘Here Come The Aliens’ by Colin McNaughton and discussed what it would be like if aliens really did invade our school.
Year 5 have had a wonderful day celebrating World Book Day. This morning, the children’s work centred around the picture book ‘Can I Build Another Me?’ by Shinsuke Yoshitake which focuses on what makes a child individual. After hearing the book read aloud, the children thought about what was i
Year 6 have had great fun celebrating World Book Day. The day started with the children admiring the costumes and sharing books with each other that they would recommend by writing a short synopsis to make it sound exciting. After this, they designed a front cover for ‘The World’s Greatest Book’ for
World Book Day is an important day in the school calendar as it is a day to celebrate reading and a love of books. It was amazing to see the effort that the children had all gone to (with some help from their parents I’m sure) to come into school wearing such fantastic costumes. The teachers also jo
Year 6 have been exploring the characters in the Varmints. They thought about the types of questions they would ask to the grey creature who cared and the ‘others’ who came and destroyed the world. The questions that were asked and the answers they elicited helped to show the contrasting moods and a
Today, Nursery took part in a variety of activities to celebrate World Book Day today. They dressed up as book characters and brought in their favourite stories to share. They particularly enjoyed a visit from pupils in year 3 who read books to them. They also listened to the story ‘Aliens Lov
All of the pupils in our phonic’s lessons have enjoyed the start in their new RWI groups. There has been some amazing fred talking of green words and excellent reading of alien words. What a lot of Nonsense! The children have also been excited to start reading their new book, which they are ta
This week Year One have started their Design and Technology topic. They are going to be making a woven table mat. The children learnt that table mats are used during meal times and can be made out of lots of different materials. To practise the weaving technique, the children used ribbon to weave in
In our current science topic of ‘Solids, Liquids and Gases’, year 4 have been investigating the properties of gas. As most gases cannot be seen, smelt or felt, their properties are difficult to examine. The children had to devise a way to measure how much carbon dioxide gas there was in a cup of fiz
This term, in Year 5, our Forest School is focusing on Personal, Social and Emotional education in a more specific way. Last week the children discussed the three aspects of human health; physical, mental and emotional. The children then whittled sticks and wrote on them things they do to ensure t
