Today a group of children led a Collective Worship on the theme ‘Growing Up’. The children brought in items from home that were precious when they were babies and they put them on the prayer table. They had a planned a worship that included singing, watching a short clip about Jesus at the Temple, a reading, prayers, sharing the peace and all the children were engaged and prayerful.
Year One have been learning all about Traditional Tales over the last few weeks. They have enjoyed hearing lots of stories and have had fun retelling them to each other. They have had a go at writing their own retell of Jack and the Beanstalk. They retold the story of Beauty and the Beast through… Continue Reading
This week, Mr Turner and Mrs Mackenzie had the pleasure of visiting all the children’s classrooms looking at their learning environments. It was wonderful to see all the children’s work and all the great learning displays on show. Each class have fantastic areas that promote the love of reading to all our children. Children can… Continue Reading
Today the children were working on coding in the ICT suite. The children are working their way through a series of lessons that develop their skills and knowledge about coding. Today the children learnt about moving the mouse and how to click and drag. Some children were programming a code to make the icon move… Continue Reading
We love reading here at St. Teresa’s and to celebrate, we have a new reading corner in Year 4! We read everyday and we are adding new books regularly to our bookshelf, to encourage reading for pleasure. Continue Reading
This week, Year One have been learning about instruction writing. The children all made jam sandwiches and took notes about what they did step-by-step. The children then reviewed their notes and compiled clear, precise numbered instructions on ‘How to make a jam sandwich’. The children learnt about the importance of using imperative ‘bossy’ verbs to… Continue Reading
Reception have enjoyed applying their growing phonics knowledge in different ways these past few weeks. They have played bingo, board games, made words with phonics multi-link or phoneme flipcharts and written captions to match pictures. Continue Reading
Today the children investigated the weather. They worked in groups and recorded what the weather was like before school, at school and what they thought it would be like after school. The children then coloured and cut out different weather symbols discussing what each represented. Then the children watched a BBC weather report and then… Continue Reading
After an exciting whole school assembly, Year 5 took part in a workshop delivered by the author Adam Bushnell. They learned about a process called transmogrification and developed a story in which they turned into an animal and defeated a’ blood beast.’ Continue Reading
Today the children were writing about their favourite part of our class book, Lila and the Secret of Rain. The children discussed the story with their talk partners and then all tried to write some sentences. They all tried to remember to use capital letters, full-stops and finger spaces. Continue Reading
