This terms homework has been an author focused reading challenge. The children had to read a variety of Michael Morpurgo books and challenge their own reading abilities. They have understood lots about the way Morpurgo writes using true events and how he creates a story around them which often leaves us questioning what is fact … Continue reading
Today, in Year 3, we began our day with the story Memory Jars by Vera Brosgol. We then reflected on our year of learning and shared our own memories of Year 3. Then we wrote and drew pictures of our favourite memories. After play, we decorated our own memory jars and filled them with our … Continue reading
We had an amazing trip to The Warner Bros. Studio Tour London – The Making of Harry Potter. There was so much to see and do! We also had a workshop in which we were shown the actual clothing that the actors wore on screen and how they had to buy lots of the same … Continue reading
In celebration of the King’s coronation, Mrs. Jacobs treated us to a new book, ‘The King’s Pants’. We read it then designed our own pants that the King might like to wear. We used adjectives to describe our interesting and amazing designs.
Last term in English year 4 were learning all about Shakespeare. As a class we focused on two of his well known plays Macbeth and Midsummer night’s dream. Yesterday, the children were lucky enough to go and visit the Globe Theatre in London and take part in a fun workshop which was based around the … Continue reading
Year 5 and 6 were lucky enough to be invited to the book festival at The Quarterhouse this morning. The author delivering the workshop was Onjali Q Rauf, author of The Boy At The Back of The Class. She shared with us how her real life experiences have shaped the writing of her books as … Continue reading
This term we are learning all about toys! Yesterday in literacy Owls wrote some very important party invitations. They invited their favourite teddies in for a teddy tea party! They addressed their invitation to their teddy and wrote the date, time and place of the party. Today we had our tea party. We showed our … Continue reading
To finish our learning on the Little Red Hen, on Wednesday we went on a short trip to Sainsburys! We visited their bakery and chose different types of bread to buy and take back to school to try. We chose Giraffe bread, Cheese-topped bread and a French stick. Did you know that Tiger bread has … Continue reading
We have been concentrating on re-telling a Greek story using our own ideas. Each group had a story to read and discuss, we then had to re-tell that story in our own words. Some of us chose to be presenters and report the story as it happened, others re-enacted the story. Each group was then … Continue reading
After the complete downpour this morning, Year 3 headed on to the playground to gather clues about their new book. The children looked very closely and came up with some great suggestions about what the book might be about. Discovering the giant footprints, lots of children thought it might be about the Gruffalo, Big Foot … Continue reading
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