Today, the children learnt about the figurative language technique of personification. Next week, the children in Year 5 will be writing a setting description based on the book Oranges in No Man’s Land. The children have worked hard so far to create descriptive sentences in their sentence stacker
Everyone in Year One has been thoroughly enjoying our new text ‘The Lighthouse Keeper’s Lunch’. In the story Mrs Grinling packs a delicious lunch for Mr Grinling every day and sends it down the wire to the lighthouse on the rocks. But one Monday something terrible happened. Mr Grinling’s lunch is
Before the Easter holidays, during the author visit, we were introduced to the story of Macbeth when Chris Connaughton acted out the whole play single-handedly. The children enjoyed the performance and got an insight into the story . Over the last two weeks, we have looked at the opening scenes wher
Year 4 have begun working on their new text in English. Along side their History topic about the Ancient Greeks, they are studying Greek myths in English. As many of them are already familiar with characters from Greek myths, they were particularly excited to be using this as a stimulus for their wo
This week, Year 2 visited Tynemouth Aquarium. During their visit, they saw lots of different sea creatures and learned how to protect them. The children also visited the beach where they found out what their new English text is going to be for this half term. To begin, the children were given the op
This week there has been a buzz of excitement in school as the author and actor ‘Chris Connaughton’ has visited all of the children. It is not often that a visitor can work from Nursery all the way to Year 6 and leave all of the children mesmerised – but Chris has managed to do this with his stories
Today, we raised money for Comic Relief. All of the children came to school dressed in their own clothes with a Comic Relief theme. During the day, the children found out about how the money raised will people in need. Later, the boys and girls enjoyed telling jokes to their classmates and vo
World Book Day is always full of excitement: children all dressed up; staff in strange costumes; and lots of fun activities planned throughout the day. The day is designed to celebrate the importance of books and foster a love of reading. This year, the whole school have worked from a twisted fairy
This week Year Two found out what their new book for this half term would be. They received a special parcel which contained clues to their new story. The children were very excited and were keen to start unwrapping the parcel straight away! After unwrapping the first layer, the children saw a book.
This term, our class text is a short book, with few words and a great set of illustrated pictures and images. It tells the story of Henry Finch who becomes the first finch have his own thoughts – sparking the imagination in the other finches to fly off and experience life for themselves too. We laun
