Image of Year 1 Visit Egremont Library
9 May 2024

Year 1 Visit Egremont Library

Year 1 had a fantastic time visiting Egremont Library. They enjoyed exploring the different sections of fiction and non-fiction.  It was lots of fun having time to share stories with friends and adult helpers. Year 1 enjoyed a whole class story together before checking out their new books with…

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24 April 2024

Nursery: Letter Formation

Our Nursery 1 children have been practising lots of letter formation this week! 
We have practised writing the letter ‘m’ using the phonics phrase ‘maisie mountain mountain’ and we have also practised writing the letter ‘a’, using the phonics phrase ‘around the apple, down the leaf’. 
The…

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21 March 2024

Library Visit Y6 21.03.24

Year 6 went to their local library today to exchange their library books. It was exciting to find books by favourite authors, a book on their favourite topic, discover new authors and a new book series to delve into. 
 

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15 March 2024

Year 2 Bring the Water Cycle to Life

Over the past few weeks Year 2 have been reading ‘The Rhythm of the Rain’ by Grahame Baker-Smith, in their reading lessons, plus some other texts linked to the water cycle. They used what they had learned to show the water cycle using collage.

 

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15 March 2024

Year 2 Virtual Author Visit March 2024

Year 1 joined Year 2 for a virtual author and illustrator visit this afternoon. The children listened to the author Kelechi Okafor read her latest book ‘Strong Like Me’. It told the children about the importance of strength in all its forms. Afterwards the illustrator of the book Michaela…

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Image of Year 1 Virtual Author Visit March 2024
15 March 2024

Year 1 Virtual Author Visit March 2024

Year 1 joined Year 2 for a virtual author and illustrator visit this afternoon. The children listened to the author Kelechi Okafor read her latest book ‘Strong Like Me’. It told the children about the importance of strength in all its forms. Afterwards the illustrator of the book Michaela…

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14 March 2024

Nursery: The Body Book

This week some of our older children have been reading ‘The Body Book’. We discussed how this book was not a story book but a book with facts in, a non fiction text. 
We have learnt that in our body there is a skeleton that keeps us upright. We had a go at finding different body parts and drawing…

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8 March 2024

World Book Day in Year 1

Year 1 enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. Everyone either came as a character from a book or in their pj’s.  We talked about our favourite authors.  We enjoyed sharing books with Year 6 in the afternoon.  We had a fantastic time. 
 

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7 March 2024

World Book Day 2024 in Year 2

Year 2 love to read and thoroughly enjoyed celebrating World Book Day. They began the day with a World Book day Treasure Hunt outdoors where they had to solve clues about books to find the next clues and collect letters of the alphabet. The children returned to class where they completed a Library…

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7 March 2024

World Book Day in Year 3

We had a great day today. The children looked amazing. They read our class book, Operation Gadgetman and voted for their top 10 books. After lunch they teamed up with a Reception child to read them a story. They wrote book reviews, made book marks and took part in a live World Book Day lesson. A…

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7 March 2024

World Book Day In Year 5

What a busy World Book Day we have had in Year 5! We celebrated the day by dressing up as our favourite book character or by wearing our pyjamas. We joined a BBC live World Book Day lesson and listened to different authors talk about what inspires them to write. We designed new book covers for our…

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7 March 2024

2024 World Book Day in Nursery

What a fabulous day we have had celebrating World Book Day! We came dressed as our favourite characters or in our pyjamas. Some of us brought along our favourite story books to share with each other too. In the afternoon we were joined by some of Year 4 who came to read to us too! 
 

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