World Book Day in Nursery

Happy World Book day to all book lovers! What a turn out for Nursery – we had all sorts of story characters arrive to celebrate World Book Day. Don’t we look fabulous? To embrace the joy of reading we have been busy role playing in our own book cafe and exploring all the traditional tales […]

Penguins in Year 2

Over the past few weeks Year 2 have been learning all about Non-Chronological Reports  – Fact files and have used their growing knowledge of penguins to write their own. They have been eager to share all of the information they have learned and have worked really hard to write this in a fact file style. […]

Adverts in Year 4

In English Year 4 have been learning all about persuasive writing. We applied all of the writing techniques we had learnt into fantastic adverts to persuade people to buy our delicious chocolate bars! The children absolutely loved doing this task and had loads of fun. 

Newspaper Research in Year 5

In Year 5 we are writing newspapers, we have visited the Hereford Hoard and interviewed a Metal Detectorist to gather information for our write up.

The Butterfly Lion in Year 3

Year 3 have been reading some of the book ‘The Butterfly Lion’ by Michael Morpurgo. They had to choose an emotion that one of the characters from the story were expressing and act this out across the classroom. We then discussed why the characters were feeling that way. We have some very talented actors and […]

Persuasive Adverts in Year 4

This week the Year 4 children have been working on their persuasive writing skills. We have been looking at all the techniques needed to persuade someone to buy something they don’t necessarily need! The children have now designed their own chocolate bars ready to create a TV advert, where they will be persuading each other […]

Curious Quest in Year 1

This week Year 1 all received a letter from Professor Klunk in our magic tins. He/she told us that they have been using our drawings and codes (from Drawing Club) to help with their Big Dream Story Machine. We have no idea what Professor Klunk looks like so we’ve been guessing with pictures and writing. […]

The Gingerbread Man in Reception

Reception have enjoyed reading the story of The Gingerbread Man this week.  We acted out the story in the hall by travelling and balancing in different ways.  We then took on the role of fox or gingerbread man as we played gingerbread ‘tag’! The children really did “run, run as fast as they can”!  We […]

Chairs Quit in Year 6

Enough is enough. Today the chairs quit. As part of our persuasive writing in Year 6, we were given the job of writing to the chairs and persuading them to come back. We couldn’t believe it when we walked in this morning… Fingers crossed the chairs believe us and return soon.

AI with Anne Frank in Year 6

In English this week, we have started looking into diary writing and learning about Anne Frank. We needed to find out all about Anne Frank’s life so we used an AI site to find out the information from AI Anne, herself. We absolutely loved this and enjoyed asking her all different types of questions and […]