Image of Nursery - Communication and Language - Which Animal Made that Sound?
24 Apr

Nursery - Communication and Language - Which Animal Made that Sound?

Nursery class have used their brilliant listening skills to identify which animal from our story 'Where's spot?' made the sound that they could hear. They worked really hard to link the sound with the correct animal picture and then mimicked the animal sound. The children took this new knowledge and found different animals during independent learning and were very excited to voice the correct animal sounds.

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24 Apr

Reception and Y1 - Guided Reading

Reception and Year 1 have been developing their early reading skills. They have been applying their phonetic knowledge to help them decode the words in the book and they have been working on improving their fluency when reading. The children have really enjoyed these interactive reading sessions and have used the Chromebooks to use the ebook feature, this has been a real hit too!

Image of Year 5 English Lesson - Role Play - Fnishing a Piece of Writing
24 Apr

Year 5 English Lesson - Role Play - Fnishing a Piece of Writing

Today in our English lesson we have been reading the story of The Fantastic Flying Book of Mr Morris Lessmore. We role played finishing a piece of writing and notes. How we would finally finish our writing; final full stop, put the pencil down, check over it and then close the book.

Image of Reception Class - Handwriting
22 Apr

Reception Class - Handwriting

Reception Class have been working hard on their letter formation through our Letterjoin scheme. They have been learning the rhymes to help them with their formation and sharing their work with a friend, talking about how their letters look and if they have been formed correctly.

Image of Reception Class - Story Time - Whatever Next!
12 Apr

Reception Class - Story Time - Whatever Next!

Today during story time the children acted out the different parts of our story Whatever Next! baby Bear and Owl met up and flew to the moon on a fantastic adventure! The children had remembered lots of vocabulary from the story and they were able to sequence the different events.

Image of Year One - Guided Reading
26 Mar

Year One - Guided Reading

In Guided Reading, we have been using our pointers to help us track our reading. We also used them to point to tricky words or graphemes too.

Image of Year 6 - English - Persuasive Writing
25 Mar

Year 6 - English - Persuasive Writing

Today in our English lesson we have planning our persuasive writing all about climate change, Greta Thunberg and how we can reduce Carbon emissions.

Image of Year 3 and Year 4 Guided Reading Group
21 Mar

Year 3 and Year 4 Guided Reading Group

This week the year 3 reading group has been reading The Queen's Plan. They have enjoyed reading and talking about the characters and story as well as adding expression. They have been breaking down new words and identifying the sounds ai, ee, igh, oa.

Image of Reception - Literacy - Plot Point 4
15 Mar

Reception - Literacy - Plot Point 4

Today in literacy we have been looking at plot point 4 of our story Pig's Might Fly. In the story, Wilbur pressed the big red button to activate the rocket booster! We were finding things that are red and we had a go at writing a sentence "Wilbur pressed the shiny red button". Some of the children had a go at changing the word shiny to other words, such as ruby and bright.

Image of Year 1 - Phonics - Popcorn Pop!
11 Mar

Year 1 - Phonics - Popcorn Pop!

In phonics this morning, we played 'Popcorn Pop', reading words with the 'ea / e-e' digraph.

Image of Year 1 - English - Ordering a Poem
11 Mar

Year 1 - English - Ordering a Poem

In English this morning, the children thought about the shape of the poem and worked in pairs to put the poem in order.