Zentangle Patterns
As part of their writing lessons on instructional texts, Year 3 have been using adverbs to improve instructions on creating zentangle patterns. They used the instructions to help Year 2 and themselves to create their own zentangle patterns. How wonderful their finished patterns were!
Year 3 Descriptive Writing
Year 3 enjoyed writing a third person narrative this week. It was very descriptive using metaphors, similes and expanded noun phrases. Their descriptions were all about a predator who failed to catch its prey and went home hungry. Descriptosaurus were useful when finding powerful vocabulary. Great…
Year 4 Bringing Dialogue To Life
This week, the children have enjoyed using an exciting rehearsal room technique to enhance their writing of reporting clauses. By acting out and freeze framing the dialogue they had planned, they were able to explore how characters would speak, move and respond in different situations. This helped…
Storytelling Workshop with Year 2
Year 2 thoroughly enjoyed taking part in a story workshop with Sarah from Bright Sparks Forest School. The session began with the children passing sounds round the circle to promote their listening skills. Then they were introduced to Wise Owl who they shared their favourite stories with. Sarah…
Water Cycle Collages
In their reading lessons, Year 2 have spent the past few weeks reading ‘The Rhyhm of the Rain’ by Grahame Baker-Smith. The book informed the children about the water cycle. They used what they have learnt from the text to create their own representation of the water cycle using collage…
World Book Day in Year 1
Year 1 had a fantastic day celebrating World Book Day. They spent the day sharing their favourite stories. Year 1 designed and created their own bookmarks. It was lovely sharing story time with Year 6 for even more stories.
World Book Day Year 5
Year 5 had a wonderful World Book Day and came to school dressed as their favourite book characters. We started the day with a live lesson where we heard from lots of famous people and footballers about how much they enjoy reading and why it is so important. The clear message from everyone was…
World Bood Day Fun in Year 2 2026
What a wonderful day Year 2 have had exploring books! Everyone came to school dressed in their pyjamas or as a book character. In English, they talked with each other about their favourite book characters. They used this information to score the qualities of the characters then used this to…
Year 5 Visit Egremont Library
Year 5 had a wonderful visit to Egremont Library this morning! The children returned the books they borrowed on their previous trip and were excited to choose new ones to take back to school.
There was a fantastic range of genres to explore. Many pupils selected exciting fantasy and adventure…
Teddy bear sleepover in Nursery
In Nursery for National Storytelling Week, we had a Teddy bear Sleepover day, where the children and staff all came in wearing their pyjamas and with their favourite teddies. We shared stories as a whole class and in groups and the children chose stories to share by themselves. We had Year 5 join…
Sharing a story with a teddy in Nursery
In Nursery, the children have been bringing a teddy in from home to share a story with in class. We then had some quieter time to share our stories in groups. The children have really enjoyed bringing their teddies to join in with the fun!
Books by Julia Donaldson
This half term, Nursery are reading stories by Julia Donaldson. They have enjoyed sharing her stories and creating crafts. This week they made masks like the Highway Rat wore, using collage materials.