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.
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Weather Forecasts in Year One
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
Author Visit
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
Writing in Year One
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
Instruction writing in Year One
Today Year One were working in pairs inventing seaside games. The children were given a selection of seaside items and time to think about a game they could make up and its rules. They came up with some super ideas. The children then came into class and together wrote each step of their game. They… Continue Reading
Year One Collective Worship
Today another group of children shared a collective worship they had planned, it was based around the theme ‘Change’. One child invited the class into a circle and asked the children to concentrate on their breathing. They had to breathe in God’s peace and breathe out any worries. After that two children read the story of Zacchaeus.… Continue Reading
Phonics in Year One
All the children in Year One have been working hard to learn their phonics. Today the children played ‘Spot the Phoneme’. The children helped their learning partner if they did not know the phoneme. Great partner work! Continue Reading
Year 1 and Grace Darling
Year One have been learning all about the heroic actions of Grace Darling and her famous rescue. They have been finding out facts from many sources and enjoyed listening to an account of her life and the night of the rescue. The children then completed a piece of factual writing about each stage of the… Continue Reading
Year 2 – R.E.: The Story of Maundy Thursday
Children looked at the story of Maundy Thursday in class today and learned that it is a special Mass celebrated during Holy Week where the priest washes people’s feet to remind everyone of what Jesus did. Children worked with their talk partners to reenact the role of Jesus and Peter during the Last Supper where… Continue Reading
World Book Day 2019
The school celebrated World Book Day this year with a bit of a difference. Instead of the traditional dress up as a book character we held a ‘vocabulary parade’ where the children could choose a word and dress up as a clue to that piece of vocabulary. After a whole school assembly, the children took part in various… Continue Reading
