In Ducklings we have been learning all about the story 'The Gingerbread Man'. We were first introduced to the tale when a sneaky gingerbread man came to visit our classroom and left us clues to find. Using our school’s Talk for Writing approach, we learnt the story and used actions to help us remember the order of events. As our confidence grew, we began to innovate the story by changing the animals the Gingerbread Man met along his journey. We have been busy drawing story ma

To start both our Literacy and History topic this term, we started with a fun introduction to it by building our own caves! The remit was that they could use what they wanted to make their caves but they had to be able to all get in it and be covered. It was great fun and they all completed the task set.

This week, Year 5 and 6 took a trip down to The Quarterhouse for an author workshop. The book was Dragonborn written by Struan Murray. He explained how a lot of his ideas for his novels come from small doodles and a big imagination! The session ended with the children taking part in a 'What type of dragon are you?' quiz and they created a dragon to reflect their results. It was a very inspiring session and the children participated and listened beautifully.

During this first term, we have been back to reading with our reading buddies at Glendale. Some of the residents are very generous with their time on a Thursday afternoon and listen to our pupils read. The children enjoy reading and discussing their books and are always very well behaved. Thank you Glendale buddies.

This term in Owls Class, we’ve been working on a story called The Little Red Hen as part of our Talk for Writing unit. Talk for...

Last week, the Ducklings enjoyed a drama session with Ian from KIC Theatre. He led a special storytelling activity where the children...

During this term we have still been visiting Glendale to read to the adults there. It is a very enjoyable event, we greatly appreciate...

Today we began our Literacy learning on instruction writing. Over the next 3 weeks we will be using talk 4 writing to recreate...