Blog by Tag: English

In English Year 1 are reading The Tale of Peter Rabbit by Beatrix Potter.  We identified all the food items mentioned throughout the story.  The children talked about the foods they were curious to taste for the first time. Today we enjoyed a Peter Rabbit snack time. We tasted carrots, radishes,…

Year 1 have enjoyed a wonderful week making their own Gingerbread biscuits.  In English we have been studying the Gingerbread Man as a traditional tale.  We have used Talk for Writing to immerse ourselves in the story.  We have created story maps, sequenced the story, written instructions for…

Year 1 have been busy writing letters to Santa.  Today we got wrapped up and walked to Egremont Main Street to post our special letters.  We were kindly invited into the post office to watch our letters being weighed and the stamps being put on. We then took our letter to the post box. We all…

Year 4 commemorated Remembrance Day by reading some war poetry. They then composed their own poem to express their gratitude to all those who made and continue to make sacrifices in wars. They then made their own poppy display sheet on which to present their poem. 
 

On a lovely, sunny, Summer day, we celebrated the end of our Topic Alice in Wonderland with a Mad Hatters Tea Party, which saw the children making their own sandwiches and making shopping lists for party food, writing invitations and planning the party!  
We have immersed ourselves in wonderful,…

We have been reading a graphic text in English lessons for the last two weeks. The characters in the text created animals using sticks, mud, pebbles, leaves nuts and stones. We wrote descriptions about fantastical animals that we would like to create. We illustrated them in the style of Dave…

Today we enjoyed a special Paddington Day.  We have been reading and enjoying the story for a couple of weeks now.  Paddington told us to all bring our bears to meet him.  He had a long journey from Darkest Peru so we made him a marmalade sandwich to revive him.  We found out that Paddington is…

This half term, Year 4 have been exploring different ways to open a story. We read a range of openings from well-known novels and compared the different ways each story starts. We then read the opening chapter to ‘The Hobbit’ and used it to write our own gripping start to a fantasy story in the…

We came back to School and were so pleased and excited to see all our friends! To add to the excitement, we have new Outdoor equipment to help us to learn more through Outdoor Play, from bats and balls and our new Basketball Hoop, to planks and stumps of wood so we can create our own obstacle…

Our spellings this week are the soft /c/ spelt ‘ci’ and one of our spellings is ‘cinnamon’ so we decided to make some cinnamon toast with one of our spellings. We agreed it’s good to try new things and although some of us were reluctant at first to try cinnamon, we discovered that we quite like…

Our theme for this year’s World Book Day was Sharing Stories!  We dressed up or wore our pyjamas and shared stories with our Grown Ups and told stories which we recorded and sent via Class Dojo!  We love books and had a really exciting day, especially as we have learnt about the author Julia…

In Year 5 we celebrated World Book day by showing our favourite book and explaining why we enjoyed it both in class and on zoom. We designed our own board games based around a book and had great fun playing them afterwards. We also got creative and designed characters from a book out of a potato.…