World Book Day in Reception 2024
We celebrated World Book Day in Reception by dressing as our favourite book character or in pjs. The children brought a book to share and we played a game of guess the character by listening to clues from different traditional stories and guessing the correct character or object. In the afternoon…
Speed Spell in Year 5
In Year 5 we have been studying the statutory words we need to be able to spell by the end of Y6. We have looked at the ‘tricky’ parts and tried to think of ways to help us remember how to spell them. When we were confident we knew them we tested each other. Some of us managed to get full marks!
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Year 4 Pomegranate Tasting
Our class text - The Boy At The Back Of The Class - has mentioned pomegranates and used some lovely descriptive vocabulary to describe one. Some of the children weren’t too sure what a pomegranate was. So today, we all tried one and created some of our own descriptions focusing on similes and…
A day of Beatrix Potter, a boat ride and Brockhole
Year 1 enjoyed a fun filled day in Windermere. Our first stop was to visit The World of Beatrix Potter. We explored all the characters and even crept around Mr McGregor’s garden. After this we walked to the boat. We boarded the Swift and enjoyed the ride to Brockhole. At Brockhole we enjoyed our…
Year 5 Visit Egremont Library
Year 5 visited Egremont library today to return their books from a previous visit and choose some new ones. They enjoyed browsing through the various sections to find a book they would enjoy. They read the blurb first to check it was something that would interest them and then checked it out at…
Speed Spell
Year 6 have been learning some tricky homophones. Today they worked in pairs to ‘Speed Spell’ the words they have been studying.
Year 1 Visit Egremont Library
Today Year 1 enjoyed visiting Egremont Library. We explored all the non-fiction and fiction sections. We also found out that some people visit the Library to use computers. We shared books together and then enjoyed a whole class story of ‘Slinky Malinki’ by Lynley Dodd. Tracey the Librarian made…
Year 2 Visit to Egremont Library
Year 2 went to Egremont Library for their termly visit. The children had great fun exploring all the books on offer and chose one each to borrow. They were very excited to go home and share the books with their parents.
All aboard the Book Bus!
Year 1 had a magical time on the Book Bus. They were amazed how many books were inside. Claire the Librarian showed us around. We all chose a book to bring into class. We will enjoy sharing our books together. Year 1 definitely agree that Claire has an amazing job driving a Book Bus.
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Nursery: ‘Tiddler’
Last week our Nursery children enjoyed reading the story ‘Tiddler’ by Julia Donaldson, as part of our ‘All about Julia’ topic.
They loved exploring the ‘Tiddler’ inspired messy tray, looking for the sea creatures from the story in the jelly.
Other children enjoyed creating some tangram…
The Book Bus Visits School
Year 5 Reading Champions visited the Book Bus today to choose a selection of books for our class. They enjoyed choosing fiction and non- fiction books. They brought them back to class where we all enjoyed having a look at them.
Year 2 Visit the Library Van
Year 2 had a wonderful time browsing through all the books on offer on the library and today. They choose a good selection of fiction, non- fiction and poetry. They couldn’t wait to take them back to class and read them.